New Cockroaches (Dictyoptera: Blattodea) from French Guiana and a Revised Checklist for the Region.

Although French Guiana is one of the greatest hotspots of cockroach biodiversity on Earth, there are still undocumented species. From both newly collected and museum specimens, we provide species descriptions for Buboblatta vlasaki sp. nov., Lamproblatta antoni sp. nov., and Euhypnorna bifuscina sp. nov. and report new geographic records for species in the genera Epilampra Burmeister, Euphyllodromia Shelford, Ischnoptera Burmeister, and Euhypnorna Hebard. Finally, we update the checklist of species known from the region to 163 total species records from French Guiana, making it the second greatest hotspot of known cockroach biodiversity on Earth.

CDMS (Clinical Data Mining Software): a cytokinome data mining system for a predictive medicine of chronic inflammatory diseases.

The cytokines, main players of the chronic inflammation progression leading to serious diseases such as diabetes or cancer, represent a target for better clinical prognosis and innovative therapeutic strategies. To investigate the immunopathogenetic progression of these diseases, the evaluation of serum cytokines profiles made of many different proteins is much more informative than single protein measurements. We developed a Clinical Data Mining Software to collect cytokine profiles evaluated on healthy subjects and patients by multiplex immunoassays also annotated with their clinical and laboratory data, to compare patient profiles by statistical tools and to evaluate their disease progression.

[Pulmonary Sarcoidosis associated to crescentic glomerulonephritis: a case report]. / Sarcoidosis pulmonar asociada a glomerulonefritis crescéntica: descripción de un caso clínico.

Sarcoidosis is a chronic disorder of unknown etiology, characteristically by the presence of the typical noncaseating sarcoid granuloma. Any tissues can be affected, but the organ most frequently affected is the lung being more unusual in other organs. Primary glomerular involvement in sarcoidosis is unfrequent. The disorder most commonly associated is membranous glomerulonephritis. Rapidly progressive crescentic glomerulonephritis have been very scarcely reported. We report a case of rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis with crescents added to a previous membranous glomerulonephritis with the histological finding of an interstitial granuloma, which was clinically apparent in the context of a normocalcemic sarcoidosis, diagnosed as lung sarcoidosis two years before.