BILATERAL DOUBLE URETERS WITH BLADDER NECK DIVERTICULUM IN A NIGERIAN WOMAN MASQUERADING AS AN OBSTETRIC FISTULA

Bilateral Double Ureters with Bladder Neck Diverticulum in a Nigerian Woman Masquerading as an Obstetric Fistula

A 43-year-old woman presented with 20-year history of leakage of urine per vaginam.She had one failed repair attempt.Pelvic LIP SCRUB examination with dye test showed leakage of clear urine suggestive of ureterovaginal fistula.The preoperative intravenous urogram revealed duplex ureter and cystoscopy showed normally cited ureteric orifices with two

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Two Novel Alliin Lyase (Alliinase) Genes from Twisted-Leaf Garlic (Allium obliquum) and Mountain Garlic (Allium senescens ssp. montanum)

Alliinase (Alliin lyase EC 4.4.1.4), a pyridoxal phosphate-dependent lyase, represents one of the major protein components of Allium species.The enzyme is a homodimeric glycoprotein and catalyzes the synthesis of allicin (diallyl thiosulfinate, a biologically active compound), pyruvate, and ammonia starting from the specific non-protein sulfur-cont

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Rack-Scale Storage Fabric: A Practical Way to Build Best-Fit Infrastructure for High-Performance Data Processing

This paper is to address the resource utilization problem for high-performance data processing applications in a large IDC (Internet Data Center) Clipper Oil environment.On one hand, each application calls for a best-fit infrastructure with a specific compute-storage ratio, to achieve the highest resource utilization while meeting its performance r

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