Bispectral Index™ variation during living donor liver transplantation in a child with hepatic encephalopathy: a case report.

Background: It is unclear whether perioperative Bispectral Index™ (BIS) monitoring in pediatric cases with acute liver failure (ALF) is effective for evaluation of neurological function. We describe a pediatric patient with hepatic encephalopathy (HE) in whom the BIS value increased from low levels to the normal range during liver transplantation (LT).

Case Presentation: Electroencephalography in a 6-year-old comatose girl diagnosed with ALF and HE who was unresponsive to pain and auditory stimuli revealed continuous slow waves, and hence, emergency LT was performed.

CAPLIB: A New Program Library for the Modeling and Analysis of Icosahedrally Symmetric Viral Capsids.

A new program library named "CAPLIB" was developed for the modeling and analysis of icosahedrally symmetric virus capsids. CAPLIB is equipped with the mathematical data of 60 rotation matrices of icosahedral symmetry, 15 planes bisecting the entire capsid structure, and a table summarizing how the 60 asymmetric units (cells) are partitioned by the planes. CAPLIB contains the function to determine the cell numbers of atoms from the atomic positions and the function to determine the rotation axes and angles from the rotation matrices.