Int J Surg Case Rep
September 2018
Int J Surg Case Rep
February 2018
Introduction: Silent metastatic gastric adenocarcinoma presenting as appendicitis is very rare. Rare pathologies may be encountered during common operations such as appendicectomy and an awareness of possible alternative pathological entities would be helpful in a surgeon's wealth of knowledge.
Presentation Of Case: A 63-year-old man presented with a three-day history of acute abdominal pain suggestive of appendicitis.
Nauchnye Doki Vyss Shkoly Biol Nauki
February 1992
The experience of sampling of fish tissues for chlororganic pesticides (COP) content or its metabolites is generalized. The greatest quantity of these substances concentrate in brain and liver tissues and in brain tissues the pesticides accumulate during all the period of ontogenesis, but in liver - only during last months of active feeding period. According to the difference in pesticide content in fish tissues in spring and autumn we can localize the source of COP contamination of water fauna and terrestrial ecosystems of different protected areas possessing water bodies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA search was made for active cultures that break down DDT. More than 600 microorganisms were isolated from soils treated for a long time with DDT and from accumulating cultures with DDT or its analogs as the carbon source and with DDT or its analogs and supplementary carbon sources. Cultures capable of degrading DDT under conditions of cometabolism were found among them.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPropanide, a herbicide, is hydrolyzed in the soil into 3,4-dichloroaniline and propionic acid. The amount of microorganisms resistant to propanide and 3,4-dichloroaniline increases when the herbicide is added to the soil, and then decreases when these compounds disappear from the soil.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIzv Akad Nauk SSSR Biol
August 1975