Carbohydrate Storage in the Entomopathogenic Fungus Beauveria bassiana.

The entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana was grown in 1% (wt/vol) gelatin-liquid media singly supplemented with a monosaccharide (glucose or fructose), a disaccharide (maltose or trehalose), a polyol (glycerol, mannitol, or sorbitol), or the amino sugar N-acetyl-d-glucosamine. The relative contributions of the carbohydrate, protein, and water contents in the fungal biomass were determined. Carbohydrates composed 18 to 42% of the mycelial dry weight, and this value was lowest in unsupplemented medium and highest in medium supplemented with glucose, glycerol, or trehalose.

Beam's eye view based prostate treatment planning: is it useful?

Prostate cancer is a common malignancy often treated with radiation therapy. Treatment optimization may improve local control while reducing acute and long-term complications. We routinely obtained CT scans on prostate cancer patients in treatment position after simulation.

Contralateral hearing loss following inner ear injury: sympathetic cochleolabyrinthitis?

Acoustic tumor surgery provided an ideal model in which to study possible contralateral hearing loss following a destructive surgical procedure on the inner ear. Follow-up audiometric studies were performed on patients with unilateral acoustic tumors who had undergone resection of their tumors. Patients who had obvious causes for contralateral hearing loss, such as chronic otitis media, unrelated otologic surgery, and noise-induced hearing loss, were excluded from this patient population.

Neoplastic angioendotheliosis: a clinicopathological entity with multifocal presentation. Case report.

Neoplastic angioendotheliosis is a rare disorder characterized by intravascular neoplastic proliferation of endothelial cells within vessels of all caliber in the meninges and neuropil. Ischemic infarcts of brain and spinal cord result from occlusion of the lumina by neoplastic cells of fibrin thrombi. Transition from reactive to neoplastic endothelium can be identified in many vessels.

A hypothesis why "early intervention" in cerebral palsy might be useful.

The question whether initiating treatment of cerebral palsy in infancy gives better results than therapy initiated later in childhood has been raised and is being debated. It is unlikely that a double-blind study can be arranged to settle this controversy. Experiences gained from management of congenital amputees, observations of copying behavior of small infants, and the relative ease of requiring other motor skills in very young normal children suggest that critical ages influence the quality of motor performances.