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The small bowel is essential to sustain alimentation and small bowel Crohn's disease (CD) may severely limit its function. Small bowel imaging is a crucial element in diagnosing small
bowel CD, and treatment control with imaging is increasingly used to optimize the patients outcome. Thereby, capsule endoscopy, Balloon-assisted enteroscopy, and Magnetic resonance imaging have become key players to manage CD patients. In this review, role of small bowel imaging is detailed discussed for use in diagnosing and managing Crohn's disease patients.
Around 1800, aesthetic debate suddenly places music at the very top in the hierarchy of the arts, even superseding poetry: This has become a commonplace not only in scholarly discourse. The protagonists of this re-arrangement of the artistic disciplines are Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, E.T.A. Hoffmann and Ludwig Tieck. In their programmatic texts, they state that music is to be free and absolute and stress its metaphysical quality and its close relation to the supernatural. Furthermore, music is supposed to be no longer dependent on the other arts, and music releases the listener or the musician from prosaic everyday life. As Wackenroder writes in Die Wunder der Tonkunst, […] [a]ll sickening thoughts which, according to Wackenroder, are the illness of mankind vanish with a piece of music, making our mind sane again. Literary romanticism here recurs to a long tradition that reaches back to the classical ages in Greece and Arabia: Music is used as a remedy for curing illnesses of various kinds. In classical antiquity, Apollo is the god of music, poetry and dancing as well as the god of healing. He was also named “Iatros” (physician) or Apollo Medicus. […] Orpheus as a bard and demigod was also said to be capable of curing diseases by means of his music. […] Thus, music in history is part of treating physical illness on the one hand, but on the other hand is more and more considered to provide a remedy especially for mental deficiencies. Music is meant to improve nervous disorders and sometimes it is even prescribed as a regular medicine. As we will see in Hoffmann’s text Die Genesung, there is a connection between the ritual healing processes in the temples of Aesculapius and the setting of the forest in which the old man regains his health.
Eine der primären Aufgaben nicht nur der Komparatistik, sondern der Literaturwissenschaft im Allgemeinen sollte es sein, Literatur als ein globales Phänomen zu erfassen und zu beschreiben. Manifestiert sich der globale Charakter von Literatur auch am augenscheinlichsten im Rahmen einer Poetik der imitatio in motivischer, thematischer und gattungsgeschichtlicher Hinsicht, so besteht er dennoch auch dann, wenn bestimmte Techniken eine internationale Präsenz besitzen. Dies gilt beispielsweise für die Konkrete Poesie, deren Funktion als einer der Katalysatoren der Globalität von Literatur im Folgenden erläutert wird.
Konkrete Poesie ist per se ein internationales Phänomen, oder wie Eugen Gomringer es formuliert hat: „die konkrete poesie […] ist einer der konsequentesten versuche, poesie inter- und übernational zu begründen.“ Zunächst müssen wir – im Sinne wissenschaftlicher Eindeutigkeit – zwischen einem engeren und einem weiteren Begriff der Konkreten Poesie unterscheiden. Die Konkrete Poesie im engeren Sinne meint eine seit den 1970er Jahren historisch gewordene Dichtung. Ihre ‘Geburtsstunde’ lässt sich zu Recht als „transatlantic baptism“ , nämlich durch Eugen Gomringer und Décio Pignatari in der Hochschule für Gestaltung im Jahre 1955 in Ulm, bezeichnen. In den frühen 1950er Jahren sowohl in Deutschland als auch Brasilien entstanden, findet sie Aufnahme in fast allen europäischen Ländern, Nordamerika und Japan. Im Folgenden soll der Begriff der Konkreten Poesie jedoch nicht in diesem unnötig eingeschränkten historischen Sinn gebraucht werden, sondern in einem sehr viel umfassenderen Sinn: Er ist all jenen Gedichten vorbehalten, in denen eine Transpa-renz des Zeichengebrauchs nicht gegeben ist, sondern stattdessen die Materialität der jeweils eingesetzten Zeichen im Vordergrund steht, wie dies auf ähnliche Weise schon im Futurismus und Dadaismus betrieben wurde, bevor der Surrealismus diesen Experimenten ein jähes Ende bereitet hat. Gilt dies auch für die Bereiche der Lautdichtung, der Gedichtobjekte u. ä., so beschränken sich die folgenden Ausführungen auf den visuellen Bereich, und zwar auf visuelle Konkrete Poesie nach 1945, zumal in der Dichtung aus dieser Zeit eine starke Tendenz zu konkretistischen Verfahrensweisen herrscht.
„Die Lose ähneln sich, die Odysseen“. Dieser Vers Ingeborg Bachmanns aus ihrem Gedicht Von einem Land, einem Fluss und den Seen behauptet, die Irrfahrten und Schicksale der vielen Odysseus-Gestalten seien einander ähnlich. Wenn sich aber die Schicksale und Heimkehrreisen der Umherwandernden ähneln, dann könnten sich auch ihre literarischen Werke ähnlich sein. Ausgehend von dieser Vermutung sollen im folgenden Beitrag zwei große Lyriker des 20. Jahrhunderts gegenübergestellt werden, die sich mit der Frage des Exils und seiner Überwindung beschäftigt haben: die Österreicherin Ingeborg Bachmann und der Iraker Sa'dī Yūsuf. Zwar gehören beide unterschiedlichen Sprachräumen und Literaturtraditionen an. Zugleich sind sie aber aus diesen Räumen ausgebrochen, um neue geografische, sprachliche und gedankliche (W)orte zu erkunden, die keine fest umrissenen Grenzen mehr kennen. Darüber hinaus haben sie in ihren Texten auf ähnliche Weise Untergänge und Auferstehungen inszeniert, die meines Erachtens den Erfahrungen ihres Exils entspringen. Ihre Sichtweisen auf das Eigene und Fremde fordern uns auf, unseren eigenen Blick in einer Zeit zunehmenden und zugleich konfliktreicheren Zusammenlebens zu öffnen und zu hinterfragen.
Lipid-laden alveolar macrophages and pH monitoring have been used in the diagnosis of chronic aspiration in children with gastroesophageal reflux (GER). This study was conducted to prove a correlation between the detection of alimentary pulmonary fat phagocytosis and an increasing amount of proximal gastroesophageal reflux. It was assumed that proximal gastroesophageal reflux better correlates with aspiration than distal GER. Patients from 6 months to 16 years with unexplained recurrent wheezy bronchitis and bronchial hyperreactivity, or recurrent pneumonia with chronic cough underwent 24-hour double-channel pH monitoring and bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL). Aspiration of gastric content was determined by counting lipid laden alveolar macrophages from BAL specimens. There were no correlations between any pH-monitoring parameters and counts of lipid-laden macrophages in the whole study population, even when restricting analysis to those with abnormal reflux index expressing clinically significant GER. Quantifying lipid-laden alveolar macrophages from BAL in children with gastroesophageal-related respiratory disorders does not have an acceptable specificity to prove chronic aspiration as an underlying etiology. Therefore, research for other markers of pulmonary aspiration is needed.
Bioapatite in mammalian teeth is readily preserved in continental sediments and represents a very important archive for reconstructions of environment and climate evolution. This project provides a comprehensive data base of major, minor and trace element and isotope tracers for tooth apatite using a variety of microanalytical techniques. The aim is to identify specific sedimentary environments and to improve our understanding on the interaction between internal metabolic processes during tooth formation and external nutritional control and secondary alteration effects. Here, we use the electron microprobe to determine the major and minor element contents of fossil and modern molar enamel, cement and dentin from Hippopotamids. Most of the studied specimens are from different ecosystems in Eastern Africa, representing modern and fossil lacustrine (Lake Kikorongo, Lake Albert, and Lake Malawi) and modern fluvial environments of the Nile River system. Secondary alteration effects - in particular FeO, MnO, SO3 and F concentrations – are 2 to 10 times higher in fossil than in modern enamel; the secondary enrichment of these components in fossil dentin and cement is even higher. In modern and fossil enamel, along sections perpendicular to the enamel-dentin junction (EDJ) or along cervix-apex profiles, P2O5 and CaO contents and the CaO/P2O5 ratios are very constant (StdDev ∼1%). Linear regression analysis reveals tight control of the MgO (R2∼0.6), Na2O and Cl variation (for both R2>0.84) along EDJ-outer enamel rim profiles, despite large concentration variations (40% to 300%) across the enamel. These minor elements show well defined distribution patterns in enamel, similar in all specimens regardless of their age and origin, as the concentration of MgO and Na2O decrease from the enamel-dentin junction (EDJ) towards the outer rim, whereas Cl displays the opposite trend. Fossil enamel from Hippopotamids which lived in the saline Lake Kikorongo have a much higher MgO/Na2O ratio (∼1.11) than those from the Neogene fossils of Lake Albert (MgO/Na2O∼0.4), which was a large fresh water lake like those in the western Branch of the East African Rift System today. Similarly, the MgO/Na2O ratio in modern enamel from the White Nile River (∼0.36), which has a Precambrian catchment of dominantly granites and gneisses and passes through several saline zones, is higher than that from the Blue Nile River, whose catchment is the Neogene volcanic Ethiopian Highland (MgO/Na2O∼0.22). Thus, particularly MgO/Na2O might be a sensitive fingerprint for environments where river and lake water have suffered strong evaporation. Enamel formation in mammals takes place at successive mineralization fronts within a confined chamber where ion and molecule transport is controlled by the surrounding enamel organ. During the secretion and maturation phases the epithelium generates different fluid composition, which in principle, should determine the final composition of enamel apatite. This is supported by co-linear relationships between MgO, Cl and Na2O which can be interpreted as binary mixing lines. However, if maturation starts after secretion is completed, the observed element distribution can only be explained by equilibration of existing and addition of new apatite during maturation. It appears the initial enamel crystallites precipitating during secretion and the newly formed bioapatite crystals during maturation equilibrate with a continuously evolving fluid. During crystallization of bioapatite the enamel fluid becomes continuously depleted in MgO and Na2O, but enriched in Cl which results in the formation of MgO, and Na2O-rich, but Cl-poor bioapatite near the EDJ and MgO- and Na2O-poor, but Cl-rich bioapatite at the outer enamel rim. The linkage between lake and river water compositions, bioavailability of elements for plants, animal nutrition and tooth formation is complex and multifaceted. The quality and limits of the MgO/Na2O and other proxies have to be established with systematic investigations relating chemical distribution patterns to sedimentary environment and to growth structures developing as secretion and maturation proceed during tooth formation.
Fibroblast growth factor receptor substrate 2 (FRS2α) is a signaling adaptor protein that regulates downstream signaling of many receptor tyrosine kinases. During signal transduction, FRS2 can be both tyrosine and threonine phosphorylated and forms signaling complexes with other adaptor proteins and tyrosine phosphatases. We have here identified flotillin-1 and the cbl-associated protein/ponsin (CAP) as novel interaction partners of FRS2. Flotillin-1 binds to the phosphotyrosine binding domain (PTB) of FRS2 and competes for the binding with the fibroblast growth factor receptor. Flotillin-1 knockdown results in increased Tyr phosphorylation of FRS2, in line with the inhibition of ERK activity in the absence of flotillin-1. CAP directly interacts with FRS2 by means of its sorbin homology (SoHo) domain, which has previously been shown to interact with flotillin-1. In addition, the third SH3 domain in CAP binds to FRS2. Due to the overlapping binding domains, CAP and flotillin-1 appear to compete for the binding to FRS2. Thus, our results reveal a novel signaling network containing FRS2, CAP and flotillin-1, whose successive interactions are most likely required to regulate receptor tyrosine kinase signaling, especially the mitogen activated protein kinase pathway.
The development of insecticides requires valid risk assessment procedures to avoid causing harm to beneficial insects and especially to pollinators such as the honeybee Apis mellifera. In addition to testing according to current guidelines designed to detect bee mortality, tests are needed to determine possible sublethal effects interfering with the animal's vitality and behavioral performance. Several methods have been used to detect sublethal effects of different insecticides under laboratory conditions using olfactory conditioning. Furthermore, studies have been conducted on the influence insecticides have on foraging activity and homing ability which require time-consuming visual observation. We tested an experimental design using the radiofrequency identification (RFID) method to monitor the influence of sublethal doses of insecticides on individual honeybee foragers on an automated basis. With electronic readers positioned at the hive entrance and at an artificial food source, we obtained quantifiable data on honeybee foraging behavior. This enabled us to efficiently retrieve detailed information on flight parameters. We compared several groups of bees, fed simultaneously with different dosages of a tested substance. With this experimental approach we monitored the acute effects of sublethal doses of the neonicotinoids imidacloprid (0.15–6 ng/bee) and clothianidin (0.05–2 ng/bee) under field-like circumstances. At field-relevant doses for nectar and pollen no adverse effects were observed for either substance. Both substances led to a significant reduction of foraging activity and to longer foraging flights at doses of ≥0.5 ng/bee (clothianidin) and ≥1.5 ng/bee (imidacloprid) during the first three hours after treatment. This study demonstrates that the RFID-method is an effective way to record short-term alterations in foraging activity after insecticides have been administered once, orally, to individual bees. We contribute further information on the understanding of how honeybees are affected by sublethal doses of insecticides.
Die Fundmeldungen in Band 24 von Botanik und Naturschutz in Hessen tragen die laufenden Nummern 1750 bis 1872 und stammen von Rolf Angersbach, Kurt Baumann, Ralph Baumgärtel, Dieter Bickler, Dirk Bönsel, Wolfgang Ehmke, Christian Feuring, Thomas Gregor, Volker Holzgreve, Karsten Horn, Heinz Kalheber, Gerwin Kasperek, Matthias Kellner, Detlef Mahn, Hans Reichert, Bernd Sauerwein, Hjalmar Thiel, Bärbel Wellmann und Jochen Wulfhorst.