Jets from MRC 0600-399 bent by magnetic fields in the cluster Abell 3376.

Galaxy clusters are known to harbour magnetic fields, the nature of which remains unresolved. Intra-cluster magnetic fields can be observed at the density contact discontinuity formed by cool and dense plasma running into hot ambient plasma, and the discontinuity exists near the second-brightest galaxy, MRC 0600-399, in the merging galaxy cluster Abell 3376 (redshift 0.0461).

Loxoprofen-induced bullous fixed drug eruption.

A 49-year-old housewife with a long-standing migraine presented with "spells" of intensely itchy, well-circumscribed, erythematous patches over the flexor aspect of her left wrist and palm repeatedly for the last 15 years. Detailed history revealed her oral loxoprofen use for migraine headaches preceding rash development. Although a patch test was negative, inadvertent ingestion of the drug by the patient reproduced the rash within a few hours, thereby establishing the diagnosis of loxoprofen-induced bullous fixed drug eruption.

A chromosomal locus encoding a phosphoserine phosphatase- and a truncated MinD-like protein affects differentiation in Streptomyces azureus ATCC14921.

We isolated BalA1, a representative transformant of thiostrepton-producing strain Streptomyces azureus ATCC14921, which carries an approximately 2.5-kb chromosomal DNA fragment on a high-copy-number plasmid. While strain BalA1 formed little aerial hyphae, its morphological defect was restored by cultivation with S.

[Arachnoid cyst of the middle cranial fossa with extraocular muscle paresis: case report].

Arachnoid cysts in the middle cranial fossa usually present with skull deformity, intracranial hypertension, epilepsy, focal symptoms and delayed mental development. Some cases, however, have neither symptoms nor signs. We have encountered a patient with an arachnoid cyst of the middle cranial fossa with extraocular muscle paresis and who was treated with cyst wall fenestration with good results.

Correlation between cerebral blood flow values obtained by Xenon/CT and Kety-Schmidt (N2O) methods.

The means of the cerebral blood flow (CBF) values obtained by the stable xenon enhanced CT (Xe/CT) method using two different CT scanners were compared with global CBF value obtained by the Kety-Schmidt (N2O) method as a reference. Xe/CT CBF values were obtained using a GE CT9200 (31 patients, 2 flow maps, 120 kV, absorption constant of 0.040) as well as a GE ProSeed Accell (38 patients, 4 flow maps, 80 kV, absorption constant of 0.

An autopsy case of Crow-Fukase syndrome which developed 18 years after the first manifestation of plasmacytoma.

A 57-yr-old woman developed Crow-Fukase syndrome 18 yr after resection of plasmacytoma of the rib. Irradiation applied to the relapsed plasmacytoma and systemic chemotherapy alleviated symptoms and signs, but the tumor relapsed in the unirradiated cervical lymph node and she died of Pseudomonas pneumonia during chemotherapy 3 yr after diagnosis. Biopsy of the lymph node revealed proliferation of IgG-lambda-positive atypical plasma cells while autopsy revealed plasmacytoma remnant in the pleura of the affected side 21 yr before.

[Right ventricular dysplasia: clinical characteristics of five patients].

The purpose of this study was to elucidate the clinical features of right ventricular (RV) dysplasia, a recently described clinical entity characterized by RV myopathic changes and ventricular tachycardia of left bundle branch block morphology. Five cases were reported, in which the diagnosis was established according to the criteria of Marcus. Case 1, a 33-year-old man, was referred to us for evaluation of his paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia of five years duration.