Experimental dataset of the impact assessment of vegetable intercropping on agroeconomic performances, pests and beneficials, and soil resources.

The data presented in this article were collected in the field at an experimental station in southern France under a Mediterranean climate. Experiments were conducted under three plastic walk-in tunnels used as blocks with organic farming practices over two successive years in a completely randomized design. The aim was to compare the intercropping of sweet pepper with basil, onion, lettuce, parsley or French bean to a sole crop of sweet pepper used as a control.

Cryoglobulinemic vasculitis with multiple digital necrosis in viral hepatitis.

Cryoglobulinemic vasculitis (CV) associated with viral hepatitis C (VHC) is halfway between classical autoimmune disease and neoplasia. The extrahepatic manifestations of viral hepatitis C are various, their majority being due to mixed cryoglobulinemia. Patients diagnosed with viral hepatitis C often have mixed serum cryoglobulins, but only 5-10% of them will develop clinically manifest cryoglobulinemic vasculitis.

Observations on isovolemic hemodilution in acute ischemic stroke.

The reduction of blood viscosity is an alternative of the improvement of the cerebral flow during an acute ischemic stroke (AIS). We studied 18 patients with AIS, ranging in age from 44 to 72 years (mean age 57 years), 11 females and 7 males. We applied an isovolemic hemodilution for 2 days starting with an emission of 250 or 500 ml blood, followed by the infusion of an equal amount of 6% HAES-steryl solution.

Serum zinc and copper in patients with cerebral vascular disease.

Serum Zn and Cu was investigated in 67 patients with cerebral infarction (CI), in 10 with cerebral hemorrhage (CH), in 14 with transient ischemic attack (TIA) and in 58 control subjects (C). Serum Zn concentration is significantly lower in patients with CH than in C (p < 0.001), and serum Cu is significantly higher than in C in patients with CI (p < 0.

Antithrombin III deficiency in a Romanian family. Pathogenic role of concomitantly increased plasma level of clotting factors VII and X.

Antithrombin III deficiency in a Romanian family is presented. The propositus, a 27 year-old man, had a history of recurrent venous thrombosis and was found to present a plasma antithrombin III level of only 50% of the normal values. His mother and two of his five children had low antithrombin III levels but no episodes of venous thrombosis.