Expression of guanylate cyclase C in human prefrontal cortex depends on sex and feeding status.

Introduction: Guanylate cyclase C (GC-C) has been detected in the rodent brain in neurons of the cerebral cortex, amygdala, midbrain, hypothalamus, and cerebellum.

Methods: In this study we determined GC-C protein expression in Brodmann areas (BA) 9, BA10, BA11, and BA32 of the human prefrontal cortex involved in regulation of feeding behavior, as well as in the cerebellar cortex, arcuate nucleus of hypothalamus and substantia nigra in brain samples of human 21 male and 13 female brains by ELISA with postmortem delay < 24 h.

Results: GC-C was found in all tested brain areas and it was expressed in neurons of the third cortical layer of BA9.

Accidental death from a fall from height at workplace turned out to be a COVID-19 death.

Coronavirus 2019 disease (COVID-19) has rapidly evolved into a pandemic during the first months of 2020. The general extent of organ involvement, as well as microscopic changes in the organs of the diseased remains insufficiently documented so far. Herein we are reporting the case of a Caucasian male who apparently died in a workplace allegedly by a fall from height and was found to be SARS-CoV-2 positive just prior to the autopsy.

Postmortem injury quantification for the fatally injured cyclists in the Osijek-Baranja county over a 21-year period.

Objective: The objective of this study was to quantify injuries in fatal cyclists' traffic crashes by performing injury analysis and determine injury trends as well as main epidemiological data of the cyclists' fatalities.

Methods: The study was organized as a cross-sectional retrospective study, which included 125 cyclists' fatalities autopsied at the Clinical Department of Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Clinical Hospital Center Osijek from 1998 to 2018. We applied The Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS©) classification for all fatally injured cyclists in traffic crashes and determined the severity of injuries by body region from the description of injuries reported in the autopsy report.

Acetabular osteometric standards for sex estimation in contemporary Croatian population.

Aim: To determine the sexual dimorphism of acetabular measurements in contemporary Croatian population and to provide a discriminant function equation for sex estimation.

Methods: The sample consisted of 200 adult pelvic bones (100 male and 100 female) from positively identified victims of Croatian War of Independence. In total, 96 left (48 male and 48 female) and 104 right (52 male and 52 female) acetabula were measured.

ZAP-70 expression and proliferative activity in chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

The expression of 70 kDa protein zeta-associated protein (ZAP-70) in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) has been used to detect those patients with more aggressive disease. The aim of this study was to determine the proliferative activity of ZAP-70(+) leukemic cells by immunocytochemical methods. The study was undertaken on native blood marrow (BM) and peripheral blood (PB) smears from 65 patients with CLL.

Myoepithelial carcinoma of the parotid gland.

Rare malignant tumor of the salivary gland, a myoepithelial carcinoma, arose de novo in the right parotid gland. The initial tumor was composed predominantly of myoepithelial cells. Subsequently the tumor recurred three times, with infiltration of the bones of the cranial base.

Snakebites in Mostar region, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The aim of this study was to provide an overview of the snakebites in patients hospitalized at the Mostar Clinical Hospital, admitted between 1983 and 2006. A total of 341 patients were recorded, with moderate men predominance (52.8%).

Characteristics of venomous snakebites in Herzegovina.

Aim: To investigate the degree to which primary and secondary care physicians in the Herzegovina region follow the protocols recommended in the literature for treatment of patients bitten by a venomous snake.

Method: We retrospectively examined hospital records of all patients treated at the Department of Infectious Diseases, Mostar University Hospital, for intoxication following a venomous snakebite in the 1997-2002 period. The data on demographic characteristics, clinical presentation, therapy protocols, and final outcome were collected for each patient.