Preventing exacerbation and seeking to determine the severity of the disease during the hospitalization of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients is a crucial global initiative for chronic obstructive lung disease (GOLD); this option is available only for stable-phase patients.Recently, the assessment and prediction techniques that a
Objective: Pediatric esthesioneuroblastoma (ENB) is a rare entity with only one previous report of an ectopic origin.Much of the research available regarding ENB is in the adult literature, with few studies focusing on the pediatric population.Here we report a case of ectopic pediatric ENB and review the literature regarding this unusual clinical e
Perforin-2 (P2) is a pore-forming protein with cytotoxic activity against intracellular bacterial pathogens.P2 knockout (P2KO) mice are tenma vineyard unable to control infections and die from normally non-lethal bacterial infections.Here we show that P2KO mice as compared to WT mice show significantly higher levels of systemic inflammation, measur