Abstract Background Urinary schistosomiasis and its severe complications, mainly bladder cancer, are scarce in non-endemic areas.The deficiency in knowledge and clinical experience of schistosomiasis may lead to inadequate management.Highlighting these topics may be of value, especially with the increased immigration from endemic low-/middle-income
Maria A K Schwartz1, John C Lieske2, Vivek Kumar2, Gerard Farell-Baril2, Virginia M Miller1,31Departments of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Internal Medicine; 2Division of Nephrology, and 3Surgery, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USAAbstract: Self-calcifying, self-replicating nanoparticles have been isolated from calcified h
Abstract Background Fertilization restores the diploid state and begins the process by which the single-cell oocyte is converted into a polarized, multicellular organism.In the nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans, two of the earliest events following navy blue maang tikka fertilization are secretion of the chitinous eggshell and completion of meiosis,