Background: Leri-Weill dyschondrosteosis (LWD) is a pseudoautosomal form of skeletal dysplasia, characterized by abnormal craniofacial phenotype, short stature, and mesomelia of the Artificial Flora upper and lower limbs.Methods: We describe two female patients with LWD.Their prime clinical complaints were severe bouts of migraine and antalgic gait
The monarch butterfly in North America has suffered a serious population decline since the mid-1990s.The introduction and widespread use of neonicotinoid insecticides during the same time period has been suggested as a potential driver of this decline but no studies have looked at the impact of these insecticides on adult monarchs.A brief laborator
Effective wildlife management is needed for conservation, economic and human well-being objectives.However, traditional population control methods are frequently ineffective, unpopular with stakeholders, may affect non-target species, and can be both expensive and impractical to implement.New methods which address these issues and offer effective w
Premature infants are known to have immature immune systems compared to term infants; however, the impacts of ex utero immune development are not well characterized.Our previous retrospective clinical review showed prolonged T cell lymphopenia in a subset of extremely premature infants, suggesting that they may have lasting abnormalities in their T