Background: Acute tubulointerstitial nephritis (ATIN) is a very rare paraneoplastic manifestation in patients with multiple myeloma (MM).It is an uncommon pattern of renal disease in such patients.Case presentation: We report a case of an 82-year-old male who was admitted with acute kidney injury.Renal biopsy showed typical findings of light chaina

The aim of this paper is to analyse the water regime of soils under spruce ecosystems in relation to long-lasting humid and drought periods in the growing seasons 1991-2013.The dominant interval humidity in observing growing seasons is semiuvidic interval with soil moisture between hydro-limits maximal capillary capacity (MCC) and point of diminish

The research and application of gob-side entry retaining (GER) technology in Chinese coal mines has been over 60 years.Two major technical types including GER with filling and GER with roof cutting were developed.However, due to the complex mining and geological conditions of the mined-out coal seam in different mining areas, as well as the strong

Synthetic mosquito oviposition attractants are sorely needed for surveillance and control programs arrow parts for Culex species, which are major vectors of pathogens causing various human diseases, including filariasis, encephalitis, and West Nile encephalomyelitis.We employed novel and conventional chemical ecology approaches to identify potentia

Abstract Background Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a complex chronic inflammatory and degenerative disorder of the central nervous system.Accelerated brain volume loss, or also termed atrophy, is currently emerging as a popular imaging marker of neurodegeneration in affected patients, but, unfortunately, can only be reliably interpreted at the time whe