The joint test generally outperforms the risk or AAO test alone and ultimately is our recommendation as a powerful alternative in many scenarios.The etiology of the common, sporadic form of Alzheimer’s disease (sAD) is unknown. We hypothesize that tau pathology within select projection neurons with susceptible microenvironments can initiate sAD.…[Read more]

Leishmania RNA virus (LRV) is a double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) virus that circulates within many species of the Leishmania parasite. In this study, we aimed to investigate the presence of LRV2 circulating in Leishmania isolates in an old focus of ZCL located in northeastern of Iran.

Leishmania isolates were collected from 85 patients that…[Read more]

The gray and white matter profiles along the vertebral axis were found to be strikingly similar, and the volumes of the cervical, thoracic, and lumbosacral sections were almost equal.NEW & NOTEWORTHY Here, we combine high-field MRI (9.4 T) and deep learning for a post mortem reconstruction of the gray and white matter in human spinal cords. We…[Read more]