Objective: Because adynamic cardiomyoplasty, or wrapping skeletal muscle around the heart,
had been shown to provide a girdling effect and delay progressive ventricular dilatation in …

A healthy 45-year-old woman with a previous Rouxen-Y gastric bypass presented with the
signs, symptoms and blood analysis results consistent with acute pancreatitis. She was …

Background. The apparent paradox seen in patients who have undergone dynamic
cardiomyoplasty and shown substantial clinical and functional improvements with only modest …

Background We hypothesize that the integrity of the latissimus dorsi muscle graft used to wrap
the heart may affect the clinical outcome of patients undergoing dynamic cardiomyoplasty. …

This paper describes a grounded plate capacitive sensing technique for monitoring mated
RF connector tightness. The capacitive sensing structure and conditioning electronics are …

Case definitions form an important part of standardized systems for public health surveillance.
They can be used in the reporting of the conditions under surveillance, the monitoring of …

CASE 13. PRESENTATION A 35-year-old Arabic woman (G4P4A0) complains of constant,
disabling right upper quadrant abdominal pain, worsening over 1 year. There is no history of …

Polo-like kinase 1 (PLK1) has important functions in maintaining genome stability via its role
in mitosis. Because PLK1 is up-regulated in many invasive carcinomas, we asked whether it …

Organization into polarized three-dimensional structures defines whether epithelial cells are
normal or malignant. In a model of morphogenesis, we show that inhibiting key signaling …

A crucial step in human breast cancer progression is the acquisition of invasiveness. There
is a distinct lack of human cell culture models to study the transition from preinvasive to …