Facial recognition and visual processing as we age:Using the Thatcher illusion with famous and non-famous faces [PDF]
, 2017 This paper reports a study examining preferred visual processes in recognition of facial features in older vs younger age groups, using Thatcherised images of famous and non-famous people in the one study.
Alexander, Victoria +2 more
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Pearls & Oy-sters: Adult-Onset Alexander Disease With Transient Swelling of the Medulla Oblongata
Neurology, 2021 Alexander disease should be considered in patients of all ages, especially in juveniles and adults, with contrast-enhancing lesions in the lower brainstem or upper spinal cord.
Y. Oshima +5 more
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Infantile-Onset Alexander Disease
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 2012 Researchers at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, and VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam report a 6-year-old Indian boy with infantile-onset Alexander disease having an unusually mild clinical course and a de novo ...
J Gordon Millichap
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MRI diagnosis of Alexander disease
South African Journal of Radiology, 2012 Alexander disease (fibrinoid leucodystrophy; originally described by Alexander in 1949) is a rare, fatal, nonfamilial leucoencephalopathy caused by astrocyte dysfunction characterised by missense mutation in the genes coding for glial fibrillary acidic ...
C G Muralidharan +2 more
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Low-Density Granulocytes Are a Novel Immunopathological Feature in Both Multiple Sclerosis and Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder [PDF]
, 2019 Objective: To investigate whether low-density granulocytes (LDGs) are an immunophenotypic feature of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) or neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD).
Alexander, Tobias +11 more
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Passaging of a Newcastle disease virus pigeon variant in chickens results in selection of viruses with mutations in the polymerase complex enhancing virus replication and virulence [PDF]
, 2010 Some Newcastle disease virus (NDV) variants isolated from pigeons (pigeon paramyxovirus type 1; PPMV-1) do not show their full virulence potential for domestic chickens but may become virulent upon spread in these animals.
Dortmans, J.C.F.M. +3 more
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Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 Successful subunit vaccination with recombinant proteins requires adjuvants. The glycolipid trehalose-dibehenate (TDB), a synthetic analog of the mycobacterial cord factor, potently induces Th1 and Th17 immune responses and is a candidate adjuvant for ...
Christiane Desel +9 more
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The Effects of Evolutionary Adaptations on Spreading Processes in Complex Networks
, 2019 A common theme among the proposed models for network epidemics is the assumption that the propagating object, i.e., a virus or a piece of information, is transferred across the nodes without going through any modification or evolution.
Carley, Kathleen M. +4 more
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Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2019 Mitochondria are the critical organelles for energy metabolism and cell survival in eukaryotic cells. Recent studies demonstrated that mitochondria can intercellularly transfer between mammalian cells.
Longfei Gao, Zhen Zhang, Jing Lu, G. Pei
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Pitfalls associated with the use of molecular diagnostic panels in the diagnosis of cryptococcal meningitis [PDF]
, 2017 We report the case of a kidney transplantation patient on chronic immunosuppressive therapy presenting with subacute meningitis. The final diagnosis of cryptococcal meningitis was delayed due to 2 false-negative cryptococcal results on a molecular ...
Burnham, Carey-Ann +5 more
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