Dielectric Relaxation Phenomena of Polylactic Acid with -Crystalline Chitin

-crystalline chitin was added to polylactic acid (PLA), and this PLA was then heat-treated at 100∘C for one minute. The crystallinity of the heat-treated PLA increased to more than 40%, and its crystallization speed also increased significantly. The temperature dependency of these materials’ relative permittivity () and relative dielectric loss factor () was also examined. The dielectric absorption peak value in curve of the PLA to which chitin was added and was smaller than that of PLA without chitin. Additionally, the Havriliak-Negami relaxation function was used to produce approximation curves for the frequency dependency of and of chitin with PLA added at 80∘C. As a result, the relaxation strength (Δ) of the chitin with PLA added was smaller than that of the PLA without chitin, and the relaxation time () of the chitin with PLA added was approximately 2.5 times larger than that of the PLA without chitin

A giant subcutaneous leiomyosarcoma arising in the inguinal region

BACKGROUND: Subcutaneous leiomyosarcoma is a rare condition that accounts for 1% to 2% of all superficial soft tissue malignancies. Approximately 10% of cases arise in the trunk, although the extremities are the most commonly affected. CASE PRESENTATION: We report herein the case of a 31-year-old man with a subcutaneous leiomyosarcoma, measuring 124 × 105 mm, arising in the left inguinal region. A wide local excision (with a resection margin ≥ 20 mm) was performed. Histological examination of the resected specimen revealed a leiomyosarcoma with high cellularity and two mitoses per 10 high-power fields. The patient remains well with no evidence of disease 5 years and 8 months after the operation. CONCLUSION: This is the first reported case of subcutaneous leiomyosarcoma arising in the inguinal region and also one of the largest tumors reported. The experience of this case and a review of the English-language literature (PubMed, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA) suggest that a resection margin of ≥ 10 mm is recommended when excising this rare tumor

A GPI processing phospholipase A2, PGAP6, modulates Nodal signaling in embryos by shedding CRIPTO

©2016 Gun-Hee Lee et al. Originally published in Journal of Cell Biology. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.20160512