Parasitoid-host eavesdropping reveals temperature coupling of preferences to communication signals without genetic coupling.

Receivers of acoustic communication signals evaluate signal features to identify conspecifics. Changes in the ambient temperature can alter these features, rendering species recognition a challenge. To maintain effective communication, temperature coupling-changes in receiver signal preferences that parallel temperature-induced changes in signal parameters-occurs among genetically coupled signallers and receivers.

Barbed Suture versus Conventional Suture for Vaginal Cuff Closure in Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy: Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial.

Study Objective: To determine the surgical time, suture time, presence of postoperative dyspareunia, and complications that occur after closing the vaginal cuff with a barbed suture compared with conventional suture.

Design: A randomized, controlled clinical trial (Canadian Task Force classification I).

Setting: Private gynecologic clinic in Medellin, Colombia.

Transversus abdominis plane block after ambulatory total laparoscopic hysterectomy: randomized controlled trial.

Objective: To determine if transversus abdominis plane anesthetic blockage (TAP block) diminishes early postoperative pain scores and facilitates ambulatory management following total laparoscopic hysterectomy.

Design: Randomized triple blind trial.

Setting: Gynecological endoscopy unit at a referral center for laparoscopic surgery.

The course of gastric cancer following surgery is associated with genetic variations of the interleukin-1 receptor antagonist and interleukin-1β.

Background: Inflammation, especially the cytokine response of the IL-1 family, has been shown to influence susceptibility to gastric cancer. In addition, several other pro-inflammatory cytokines have been demonstrated to influence metastasis and resistance to chemotherapy. Therefore, genetic variations within these genes may not only affect susceptibility but also influence the outcome of gastric cancer patients.

[Convulsions induced by ropivacaine after midhumeral block].

We report a case of central nervous system toxicity induced by ropivacaine following a brachial block at the humeral canal. Forty millilitres 0.75% ropivacaine (4.