ACQUIRED APLASTIC ANEMIA COMPLICATED WITH ANTI-GLOMERULAR BASEMENT MEMBRANE DISEASE SUCCESSFULLY TREATED WITH IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE THERAPY: A CASE REPORT

Acquired aplastic anemia complicated with anti-glomerular basement membrane disease successfully treated with immunosuppressive therapy: a case report

Abstract Background Aplastic anemia (AA) is a rare but fatal disorder characterized by pancytopenia due to bone marrow hypoplasia.Anti-glomerular basement membrane disease (anti-GBM disease) is an immune complex small-vessel vasculitis ARTHRI-PLUS CREME that presents as rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis and/or pulmonary hemorrhage.Although bot

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Division of labor and brain evolution in insect societies: Neurobiology of extreme specialization in the turtle ant Cephalotes varians.

Strongly polyphenic social insects provide excellent models to examine the neurobiological basis of division of labor.Turtle ants, Cephalotes varians, have distinct minor worker, soldier, and reproductive (gyne/queen) morphologies associated with their behavioral profiles: small-bodied task-generalist minors lack the phragmotic shield-shaped heads

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