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To assess additional risk of newborn death owing to early discharge.

Objective: To assess additional risk of newborn death owing to early discharge.

Abstract: Cholangiography is the definitive imaging modality for assessing Cholangiocarcinoma. This study was designed to evaluate the ultrasound (US) features of cholangiocarcinomas and assess the accuracy of US in mapping tumor site when compared to cholangiography. Findings were correlated with patient survival. Thirty-one patients with an US diagnosis of cholangiocarcinoma underwent cholangiography. The US diagnosis was correct in 29 of 31 cases. Complete agreement with cholangiography occurred in 23 (78%) cases. In six patients, there was discrepancy over the precise tumor location. US diagnosis of cholangiocarcinoma had a high predictive value (0.94) and proved an accurate method of mapping tumor site. Lesions arising in the hilar region carried a worse prognosis (50% were dead within 80 days).

WE report here on a new method to kill several selected neurons, using a modified fluorescence photoablation technique that does not require impaling any cells. Rather, we injected extracellularly the dye rhodamine 6-G, which is taken up by the cells. We made our injections into one side of a cockroach ganglion, after which the nearby cell bodies of individually known giant interneurons (GIs), as well as other cell bodies and many axons, became highly fluorescent. After this dye accumulation, we irradiated either the entire ganglionic region of the accumulated dye, or specifically the cell bodies of two identified GIs. After allowing over one week for axonal degeneration, both histological and behavioral tests confirmed that specifically the axons of the targeted illuminated cells had been killed.

The process of ecological risk assessment should involve the ability to predict adverse outcomes of particular environmental contaminants or human intrusions. Ecological risk assessment generally focuses on populations, communities, and ecosystems, rather than on individual health. We explore the importance of life history strategies of aquatic turtles to their risk from environmental contaminants and other human activities using three examples: the wood turtle Clemmys insculpta, a freshwater species; the diamondback terrapin Malaclemys terrapin, a littoral species; and marine turtles as a group. These turtles are partly herbivorous and are at low or intermediate levels on the food chain, yet are particularly vulnerable due to their life history strategies of being long-lived with relatively low survival of young. They suffer a variety of natural mortality factors that include predation, starvation, and disease, as well as inundation and destruction of nesting beaches and their eggs by storms. Yet they also face a number of anthropogenic hazards, including toxic chemicals and floatables (plastics); capture for food, other products, and pets; incidental mortality in fishing gear; disturbance while nesting or moving on land; injuries or death by collision with boats; and increased predator exposure because of humans. The three turtle species (or groups of species) examined have experienced these natural and anthropogenic pressures differentially, with resultant differences in the rates of population declines. Because they are lower on the food chain than other obligate carnivores, they are less vulnerable to toxics, and to date, toxics seem a relatively inconsequential environmental risk to turtles

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