The spore morphology and wall ultrastructure of 12 species of Ctenitis from Southern Cone of America were studied using light microscope, scanning and transmission electron microscope. The study was carried out with herbarium material from Argentine and Brazilian institutions. Equatorial diameters, polar diameters and laesura length were measured. The spores are monolete with echinate or folded ornamentation. In the echinate type, the spines are conical, with broad base and attenuate apex. In the rugate type, the folds are inflated, linear, sinuous, subglobose or handle-shape. The perispore surface is scabrate, rugulate, microverrucose or psilate. Stratification and ultrastructure in the species analyzed are very similar. The exospore is smooth and two-layered in section. Simple and branched channels are observed mainly in the outer exospore. The perispore is composed of two layers, the inner one forms the ornamentation and the outer covers all the outer and inner surfaces. Immature spores were found in all samples of C. fenestralis. The characteristics of the studied spores like macro-ornamentation, color and fold length provide relevant information to differentiate some species or groups of species within the genus.
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Retina
January 2025
Department of Ophthalmology, Institute of Clinical Neurosciences of Southern Switzerland (INS), Ospedale Regionale di Lugano, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale (EOC), Lugano, Switzerland.
Purpose: To assess if drusen volume can serve as structural clinical outcome marker in Malattia Leventinese (ML), and to evaluate whether cones or rods are more affected by its progression, using multimodal imaging and mesopic and two-color scotopic microperimetry.
Methods: This was a prospective monocentric cross-sectional cohort study of participants with genetically confirmed ML. Participants were classified according to morphology.
Clin Oral Investig
January 2025
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Radboud University Medical Center, Geert Grooteplein 10, Nijmegen, 6525, GA, the Netherlands.
Objectives: To assess the effect of patient positioning and general anesthesia on the condylar position in orthognathic surgery.
Materials And Methods: This prospective study included patients undergoing orthognathic surgery between 2019 and 2020. Four weeks prior to surgery (T0) cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) scans and intra-oral scans (IOS) were acquired in an upright position.
Nan Fang Yi Ke Da Xue Xue Bao
January 2025
School of Biomedical Engineering, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China.
Objectives: To explore the synthesis of high-quality CT (sCT) from cone-beam CT (CBCT) using PE-CycleGAN for adaptive radiotherapy (ART) for nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
Methods: A perception-enhanced CycleGAN model "PE-CycleGAN" was proposed, introducing dual-contrast discriminator loss, multi-perceptual generator loss, and improved U-Net structure. CBCT and CT data from 80 nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients were used as the training set, with 7 cases as the test set.
Int J Parasitol
January 2025
Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Branišovská 31, 37005 České Budějovice, Czech Republic; Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 1760, 37005 České Budějovice, Czech Republic. Electronic address:
The diphyllobothriid tapeworm Dibothriocephalus dendriticus, one of the causative agents of the fish-borne zoonosis dibothriocephalosis, is mainly distributed in the Arctic/subarctic and temperate zones of the Northern Hemisphere (Europe, North America, and Asia), but also in the southern cone region of South America (Patagonia). The genetic structure and gene flow among 589 individuals of D. dendriticus, representing 20 populations, were studied using the mitochondrial cox1 gene as the first choice marker and 10 polymorphic nuclear microsatellite loci as a dominant molecular tool.
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January 2025
Department of Stomatology, Shunde Hospital, Southern Medical University (The First People's Hospital of Shunde, Foshan), Foshan, 528308, Guangdong, China.
Background: A comprehensive analysis of the occlusal plane (OP) inclination in predicting anteroposterior mandibular position (APMP) changes is still lacking. This study aimed to analyse the relationships between inclinations of different OPs and APMP metrics and explore the feasibility of OP inclination in predicting changes in APMP.
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