Pediatric penetrating brain injuries with intact neurological function: Two case reports of a pencil and a toy wheel encounter.

Accidental injuries in the pediatric population are common. The response to injury also differs owing to anatomical and physiological differences in children. While such injuries carry a risk of lifelong morbidity, some cases may follow a benign course despite their distressing appearance.

Self-inflicted penetrating brain injuries with preserved neurological function: a case series.

Background: Penetrating trauma to the brain is a rare mode of self-harm in individuals with depressive psychosis. It may have variable presentations ranging from intact neurological status to non-survivable damage and the subjects may be surprisingly apathetic to pain. It is even unusual for such an injury to have an excellent prognosis despite coming late to clinical attention.

Substituted benzenediol Schiff bases as promising new anti-glycation agents.

A feature of diabetes is that the rate of protein glycation and the formation of advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs) increases spontaneously due to the abnormally elevated levels of sugar in the blood. The glycation of proteins is associated with a large number of late diabetic complications (retinopathy, neuropathy, atherosclerosis, end stage renal diseases, rheumatoid arthritis and neurodegenerative diseases). The increase in diabetic complications is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, which has increased significantly in the last two decades.

Dieth-yl[N-(3-meth-oxy-2-oxidobenzyl-idene)-N'-(oxidomethyl-ene)hydrazine-κO,N,O']tin(IV).

In the mol-ecule of the title compound, [Sn(C(2)H(5))(2)(C(9)H(8)N(2)O(3))], the Sn atom is five-coordinated in a distorted trigonal-bipyramidal configuration by two O and one N atoms of the tridentate Schiff base ligand in the equatorial plane, and by two C atoms of ethyl groups in the axial positions. In the crystal structure, inter-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the mol-ecules into centrosymmetric dimers.

(2,2'-Bipyridine-κN,N'){[(3-meth-oxy-2-oxidobenzyl-idene-κO)hydrazono]methano-lato-κN,O}dimethyl-tin(IV).

In the crystal structure of the title compound, [Sn(CH(3))(2)(C(9)H(8)N(2)O(3))(C(10)H(8)N(2))], the Sn atom exhibits a penta-gonal bipyramidal coordination geometry defined by two C, three N and two O atoms. The bond distances for Sn-C, Sn-N and Sn-O are in the ranges 2.097 (3)-2.