Percutaneous injection of thrombin for the treatment of pseudoaneurysms: the German multicentre registry.

Aims: False aneurysms can be treated surgically or by ultrasound guided manual compression. Another method is to inject thrombin into the aneurysm under ultrasound guidance. We evaluated safety and efficacy of this approach in a multicentre registry.

Validation of dual-chamber pacemaker diagnostic data using dual-channel stored electrograms.

Background: Pacemaker diagnostic counters are used to guide device programming and patient management. However, these data are susceptible to inappropriate classification of events. The aim of this multicenter study was to evaluate pacemaker diagnostic data using stored intracardiac electrograms (EGMs).

High-resolution crystal structures of Caldicellulosiruptor strain Rt8B.4 carbohydrate-binding module CBM27-1 and its complex with mannohexaose.

Carbohydrate-binding modules (CBMs) are the most common non-catalytic modules associated with enzymes active in plant cell-wall hydrolysis. Despite the large number of putative CBMs being identified by amino acid sequence alignments, only few representatives have been experimentally shown to have a carbohydrate-binding function. Caldicellulosiruptor strain Rt8B.

Folding and stability of the leucine-rich repeat domain of internalin B from Listeri monocytogenes.

Internalin B (InlB), a surface protein of the human pathogen Listeria monocytogenes, promotes invasion into various host cell types by inducing phagocytosis of the entire bacterium. The N-terminal half of InlB (residues 36-321, InlB321), which is sufficient for this process, contains a central leucine-rich repeat (LRR) domain that is flanked by a small alpha-helical cap and an immunoglobulin (Ig)-like domain. Here we investigated the spectroscopic properties, stability and folding of InlB321 and of a shorter variant lacking the Ig-like domain (InlB248).

[Results of single head VDD-stimulation].

VDD pacing systems provide a physiologic AV synchronous stimulation with only one lead in patients with high degree AV block and normal sinus node function. They compete with DDD systems.    This overview presents actual results of VDD stimulation concerning implantation, atrial sensing and AV synchrony, as well as stability of sinus node function.