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The calculation of transition properties between ground and excited states has long been a challenge for quantum chemistry . In 1985, olsen and jrgensen showed that the transition moments between the ground and excited states of a molecular system can be obtained from the single residues of its ground - state response ...
Breast cancer in a male is very rare, comprising less than 1% of all breast cancers and less than 1% of all cancers in men [1, 2]. The occurrence of occult breast cancer in a male is even rarer, although some cases have been reported [3, 4]. Here, we report a male having epirubicin, cyclophosphamide and paclitaxel refr...
A prospective cohort study was conducted in order to investigate the association between serum ferritin levels and the development of mets . Study participants consisted of middle - aged korean men undergoing a medical health checkup program at the health promotion center of kangbuk samsung hospital, sungkyunkwan unive...
Stroke is the most common cause of disability in activities of daily living (adl). Good trunk stability is essential for balance and extremity use during daily functional activities and higher level tasks2 . Dickstein et al . Reported that the anticipatory activity of trunk muscles is impaired in stroke patients4 . The...
In the previous issue of critical care, sinderby and colleagues compare the analyses by experts and by an innovative automated method to detect and quantify patient - ventilator interaction in ventilator tracings from a previously published study . There is very good agreement between the two approaches and this opens ...
Vitamin d deficiency is a worldwide epidemic health problem, with a range of prevalence in between 70%100% in the general population . Whereas, among indian population with low dietary calcium intake, a prevalence of varying degrees (50 - 90%) has been reported . Most of the researchers have uniformly reported a high p...
Hepatitis c is a major health problem affecting approximately 2%-3% (130 - 170 million) of the world population . The major burden of hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection comes from squeals of chronic infection including liver cirrhosis and liver cancer (1). Given that hepatitis c treatment and achieving sustained virolog...
Since the introduction of highly effective immunosuppressive agents, organ transplant patients survive significantly longer and the number of patients with successful kidney transplantation is increasing worldwide . However, immunosuppressive therapies raise other distinct health problems that necessitate such patients...
Morbidity and mortality in patients on hemodialysis is still high despite significant improvement in dialysis technology (1) malnutrition and inflammation are related to high rates of morbidity and mortality in patients on hemodialysis (2, 3). Serum levels of interleukin 6 (il-6), leptin and adiponectin are known to be...
Any patient who has a normal eye, with a normal optic nerve and brain, deserves perfect vision.a refractive surgeon must know how to refract, that is, garbage in - garbage out.i do not believe in differentiating between cornea, lasik, and cataract surgeons . We are all vision corrective surgeons!there is no case that i...
Many pregnant women in sub - saharan africa are infected with or exposed to pathogens that can be transmitted vertically . These include hiv, hepatitis b virus (hbv), hepatitis c virus (hcv), malaria, and syphilis . The usual mechanism for perinatal transmission of hbv, hcv, and hiv is exposure to infected maternal blo...
Atherosclerosis and its complications, such as myocardial infarction and stroke, are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the developed world . Stress, tobacco smoking, alcohol consumption, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, obesity, insulin resistance and dyslipidemia have been identified as important risk fa...
Chronic portal hypertension is frequently observed in children secondary to extrahepatic portal vein obstruction (ehpvo). It is most commonly caused by extrahepatic portal vein thrombosis (epvt) and cavernous transformation (epvct). Furthermore, it is associated with acute gastrointestinal (gi) hemorrhage from the esop...
The mammalian auditory system falls broadly into two pieces, the auditory periphery and the central auditory system . The electrical signals are then sent to the central auditory system for further processing, and eventually, the sensation of sound occurs . In pathological conditions, hearing impairment usually develop...
Inflammation and swelling of salivary glands is called sialadenitis which can be unilateral or bilateral . Many conditions such as bacterial and viral infections, sjogren syndrome, ductal obstruction by stones, tumors or duct stricture, and drugs can cause sialadenitis . Although there are numerous reports of drug - in...
Periapical radiographs of 160 subjects (80 males and 80 females) between 8 and 16 years of age were selected . Selection of the subjects was based on the following criteria the subjects were all south indians, well - nourished and free of any known serious illnessthe subjects had undergone neither previous orthodontic ...
We report a case of a patient with advanced non - small cell cancer of the right lung with persistent hiccups . Hiccups are a physiological phenomenon, but can herald an ominous prognosis in the setting of advanced malignancy . Based on the duration of the symptoms, hiccups may be persistent (> 48 hours) or intractable...
Participation in sports has dramatically increased over the last three decades and sport related injury has increased proportionally (9). Sports injury surveillance classification systems have become increasingly popular during this time to gather information on these injury types, rates, mechanisms, and risk factors (...
We first sought to reconstitute lck - mediated tcr phosphorylation in a non - immune cell and then determine which factors are needed to keep the tcr quiescent (fig.1a). As the basis of our reconstitution, we expressed the complete set of protein chains of the 1g4 tcr in the plasma membrane of hek cells (hereafter, hek...
It is no coincidence to begin this paper on protein tau and tauopathies by referring to alzheimer's disease (ad), because it is the most frequent tauopathy, albeit a secondary one . More than hundred years after the first documented case of ad, the etiology of sporadic forms remains hitherto unknown . Demographic chang...
Factors influencing on the quality of sleep and detection of them remain largely an unidentified public health issue, especially among university students. [13] previous research has suggested that university students have more sleep disturbances. [48] in recent surveys nearly 75% of university students reported occasi...
The regulation of translation is crucial for controlling cell growth and proliferation while translation dysregulation results in aberrant growth and tumorigenicity . Translational control is mediated by the 7-methyl - gtp cap structure present at the 5 termini of all eukaryotic mrnas where multiprotein complexes are f...
Cell membranes are made up of a wide variety of lipids that act as a matrix to host integral membrane proteins, to recruit peripheral membrane proteins, and thus to actively participate in cellular membrane functions together with these proteins . Complexity of biological membrane systems arises from a considerable het...
As a fetus grows, a variety of changes appear in a pregnant woman s body . The thoracic and lumbar spine curvature change1, pain in the low back and pelvic region can increase2, and the balance and gait pattern also change3,4,5 . Previous studies reported that the center of gravity of pregnant women moves towards the a...
The laryngeal mask airway (lma) is an extremely important supraglottic airway device (sad) and has advantages over tracheal intubation such as less hemodynamic stimulation, easy insertion, and higher success rate . In addition, it has proved valuable as a rescue device in managing difficult airways . Many reports have ...
In pregnant women, acute respiratory failure is rare, with a rate of only 0.1% . The reported causes of this condition include pulmonary edema, communityacquired pneumonia, aspiration, pulmonary embolism, asthma exacerbation, amniotic fluid embolism, and venous air embolism 1 . However, our literature search yielded ve...
Amblyopia is one of the major causes of visual loss in the pediatric group, with an incidence of approximately 3% of the population, and has been the subject of numerous studies . During the visual evolution, any reduction in vision resulting from a blurred retinal image, including anisometropia, strabismus, and depriv...
Ameloblastoma is a benign but locally invasive polymorphic neoplasm consisting of proliferating odontogenic epithelium, which usually has a follicular or plexiform pattern lying in a fibrous stromal tissue . There are four basic histopathological variations: 1) solid / multicystic; 2) extraosseous / peripheral; 3) desm...
The force - velocity (f - v) relationship of the muscles performing multi - joint maximum performance tasks has been the focus of recent research . An important reason for that was the possibility to selectively assess force (f), velocity (v) and power (p) generating capacity of muscles performing functional movements ...
Statins, which are 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme a reductase inhibitors, are currently the most popular drugs for the management of dyslipidemia for the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease.1 their widespread use is driven by a robust body of evidence that supports their efficacy in preventi...
Moderate - to - severe dysnatremia has long been recognized as a marker of acuity and mortality risk in the critically ill patient . However, accumulating evidence, including the work of darmon and colleagues in the previous issue of critical care, suggests that even mild abnormalities of serum sodium concentration pre...
Cyclooxygenase (cox) catalyzes the first two steps in prostanoid production from arachidonic acid to many prostaglandins including prostacyclin and thromboxane . Cox-2 expression is primarily induced in response to inflammatory stimuli by growth factors, mitogens, and cytokines . Cox-2 expression has been detected in e...
Spontaneous extraperitoneal rupture of bladder in the puerperium is reported in few literatures . The word spontaneous is used here as there was no antecedent history of trauma or instrumental delivery . It occurs if the urinary bladder was not emptied before the second stage of labor and during postpartum / puerperium...
Coronary artery disease (cad) is a common multifactorial disease characterized by a high rate of morbidity and mortality . According to a study by talaei et al ., the annual incidence of cad in an iranian population was reported to be 1436 and 1168 per 100,000 persons - years in men and women, respectively . Also, acco...
Brachytherapy (bt) is an established treatment modality that places the radiation source within or in close contact with the patient . Through the positioning of needles or applicators, it is possible to deliver dose distributions with bt that are more conformal than possible with external - beam radiotherapy (ebrt) us...
Diabetic retinopathy is a leading cause of severe loss of visual acuity despite an increased understanding of this disease and the identification of successful treatments.1 the diabetic retinopathy study showed the benefits of panretinal photocoagulation (prp) in reducing the risk of severe visual loss by> 50% in eyes ...
In the us in 2010, malignant melanoma was the fifth and seventh most common cancer diagnosed in men and women, respectively,1 and the number of new cases (excluding basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma) was estimated at 68,130.2 among the available treatment options for malignant melanoma, surgical resection with or ...
Plasma is the fourth state of matter, in addition to solid, liquid, and gas . Thermal plasmas, such as arch discharges, and low - pressure plasmas for surface treatments, have been used in industry . Innovative technologies for generating non - thermal plasmas at atmospheric pressure have recently been developed and ap...
Astrocytes secrete numerous factors and active molecules [14], which modulate synapse development, neuronal activity, and plasticity during development and in the mature brain [510]. In particular, immature astrocytes produce and secrete many types of proteins that allow them to remodel the extracellular matrix (ecm) s...
The introduction of the genome - wide association study (gwas) is the result of enormous technological advances . Gwass involve the use of arrays that simultaneously genotype several hundred thousand single nucleotide polymorphisms (snps) per individual . This enables a hypothesis - free search of every gene and most i...
Medical therapy has resulted in decreased morbidity from h. pylori infection as it is the causative agent in the majority of peptic ulcer disease . Peptic ulcer disease (mucosal erosion of the gastrointestinal tract) is a common and serious condition that was once thought to be a result of emotional stress and diet . M...
The selection of suitable polymers for manufacturing a drug delivery system is a major and important factor when formulation of controlled release buccal delivery systems for enhancing mucoadhesivity and obtaining controlled release profile is considered . A drug delivery system using a single polymer may not give the ...
Systemic lupus erythematosus (sle) is a chronic systemic inflammatory autoimmune disease that can affect almost any organ and can present with musculoskeletal, neuropsychiatric, renal, cutaneous, and hematologic manifestations alone or in combination [13]. The treatment plan used to manage sle is dependent upon the sev...
The median age at diagnosis of prostate cancer is 68 years.1 prostate cancer does not alter life expectancy for most of these men as the 5-year relative survival for all stages combined is 98.8%.1 even those who present with metastatic disease have a median survival of approximately 30 months2,3 and a 10-year survival ...
Donor and recipient parameters interact and jointly influence overall graft - survival after kidney transplantation (ktx). The individual decision to use a graft or not is guided by the question whether it will be helpful for the allocated recipient taking into account persisting organ shortage . As a result, grafts fr...
Stabilized rice bran is a unique whole food that naturally contains protein, vitamins, minerals, complex carbohydrates, phytonutrients, phospholipids, essential fatty acids, and more than 120 antioxidants. (1) dietary rice bran intake and rice bran components have demonstrated chronic disease fighting activity, particu...
Membrane transporters are a large group of proteins that span the cell membrane and form an intricate system of pumps and channels through which they deliver essential nutrients, eject waste products and assist the cell to sense environmental conditions . Transporters represent a large and diverse group of proteins tha...
Composition vector (cv) trees are inferred from whole - genome data by using an alignment - free and parameter - free method (1), implemented as a web server entitled cvtree 2, 3 . The cv method has been successfully applied to infer phylogeny of viruses 4, 5, bacteria 1, 6, 7, chloroplast (8) and fungi (9). In all cas...
This study is a retrospective chart review of patients with neovascular amd and pcv refractory to treatment with ranibizumab or bevecizumab . They were switched to aflibercept treatment with at least 3 consecutive injections at approximately one - month intervals between july 1, 2013 and june 30, 2014 . Inclusion crite...
2d x - ray mammography is the current gold standard breast cancer screening and diagnostic imaging modality . However, mammography has been shown to have low sensitivity and specificity among premenopausal women and women with dense breasts . Furthermore, mammography provides limited 3d information, as only two images ...
The use of airbags to provide a cushioning effect in the event of a collision was first researched in the 1950s, approval for widespread commercial installation of airbags in passenger vehicles was given in the late 1980s and by the late 1990s, they became a regular safety feature in almost all cars, in aircrafts and e...
This single - dose single - blinded controlled three - way randomized sequential study in subjects with type 2 diabetes was conducted at the clinical research center . Nonsmoking patients aged 1875 years, with a bmi 30 kg / m and an a1c 10%, taking over 100 units insulin daily, with or without oral hypoglycemic agents,...
Introduction: bobble - head doll syndrome (bhds) was first described by benton et al . In the year 1966 . Bhds is a rare clinical entity usually associated with an expansion in the area of the third ventricle . It has been observed among patients with suprasellar or third ventricle cysts, aqueductal stenosis, or patien...
Hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc) is the most common primary liver cancer and is now the fifth most common cancer worldwide.1 in south korea, hcc is the fourth most common cancer and the third most common cause of cancer - related death.2 with recent improvements in diagnostic and treatment strategies, survival of patient...
The international classification of headache disorders, ii version (ichd - ii) recognises 24 types of chronic headache and defines primary episodic headaches as chronic when the attacks appear for more than 15 days / month and for at least 3 months . The influence of psychological factors in the pathogenesis, clinical ...
Advanced age and delayed reproductive choices of women have led to increased use of donor oocyte in assisted reproduction . As a result, donor stimulation should be cost effective and have minimal side effects with little risk of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (ohss). Controlled ovarian hyperstimulation combines the...
Various kinds of self - assembled aggregates, such as vesicle, micelle, and emulsion, are utilized as drug carrier in dds (drug delivery system) research . The self - assembled aggregates have previously been applied for the capsulation of the drug molecules since the 1980s [2, 3]. In a recent study, liposomes are rega...
Just as an entire organism can be treated as a collection of interacting cells, so can a cell be considered as a collection of individual molecules, a view that is essential for understanding the complex molecular interactions present in living systems . The current expansion in life - science research has been fuelled...
About 60% of the cases of bladder transitional cell carcinoma (tcc) are non - invasive and low - grade when diagnosed for the first time, and the standard current treatment is transurethral resection of the bladder tumor (turb). Unfortunately, most (50 80%) patients with superficial tcc who just undergo transurethral r...
In order to study the kinetics of transcriptional induction we developed a series of cell lines stably expressing different sets of proteins based upon the previously described doxycycline (dox) inducible u2os-2 - 6 - 3 cells (fig . These cell lines correctly recapitulate the dynamics of pol ii and nascent transcripts ...
Type 1 diabetes mellitus is one of the leading chronic diseases of childhood, affecting 1.54 youth per 1,000 in the u.s . According to the search for diabetes in youth study (1). The autoimmunity that precedes type 1 diabetes can appear in the first year of life suggesting that early environmental exposures may trigger...
All protocols were carried out in accordance with the principles of the declaration of helsinki . Participants were composed of 128 patients who underwent initial therapy at the study hospital between november 2004 and december 2010 and had been pathologically given a diagnosis of eoc . Informed consent was obtained fr...
Acute coronary syndrome (acs) is the umbrella term for the clinical signs and symptoms of myocardial ischemia including unstable angina pectoris and acute myocardial infarction, which mainly resulted from a disruption of a coronary atherosclerotic plaque associated with partial or complete thrombotic vessel occlusion ....
Patients with diffuse high uptake of f - fluorodeoxyglucose (f - fdg) in the spleen, liver, and bone marrow but without increased f - fdg uptake in the lymph nodes and without enlarged peripheral lymph nodes are frequently observed in lymphoma or inflammation . However, whether these f - fdg uptakes reflect the involve...
Amongst many transition metal oxides, wo3 has excellent electro - chromic, gaso - chromatic and photo - chromatic properties . At room temperature, wo3 has been used to construct flat panel displays, photo electro chromic smart windows [2 - 4], writing reading erasing optical devices, optical modulation devices, gas se...
An 81-year - old woman was examined for a raised pigmented nodule over her left cornea for 7 months duration, which disturbed vision and blinking . She had previously undergone primary surgical excision of a malignant conjunctival melanoma four years earlier (fig . A pale, lightly pigmented, vascularized tumor was pres...
Proximal femoral osteotomy (pfo) is the most common major reconstructive surgery in the region of the hip in children and adolescents . The indications are wide and include developmental dysplasia of the hip (ddh), containment in perthes disease, realignment of the proximal femur following slipped capital femoral epiph...
According to the latest brain and other nervous system cancer figures published by globocan, 139,608 and 116,605 new cases were diagnosed in 2012 worldwide in male and female, representing 3.9 and 3.0 per 100,000 person - years 1 . Data from the international agency for research on cancer (iarc) publication, cancer inc...
Multiple sclerosis (ms) is a chronic demyelinating, inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (cns), predominantly affecting young adults in their most productive years . The most prevalent symptoms are sensory changes, including fatigue, balance disorders, spasticity, motor weakness, and impaired muscular per...
Schiff bases represent an important class of organic compounds, especially in the medicinal and pharmaceutical field . Schiff bases appear to be important intermediates in a number of enzymatic reactions involving interaction of the amino group of an enzyme, usually that of a lysine residue, with a carbonyl group of th...
Red cell distribution width (rdw) is a measurement of the size variability of the red blood cell population . It has also known that rdw levels are elevated in inflammatory bowel diseases, pregnancy, liver and kidney diseases, and during inflammatory processes [35]. Recently, the increased value of the rdw was reported...
The last two decades have been marked by an expansion of potentially toxic harmful algal species (has) throughout the world (hallegraeff, 2010). The uptake of algal toxins by suspension feeding bivalve molluscs is the main process through which different phycotoxins, with different impacts [such as amnesic shellfish po...
The broadest - spectrum antibiotics, such as fourth - generation cephalosporins, piperacillin / tazobactam (tazocin; pfizer, new york, ny), and carbapenems, play an important role in the empiric therapy of serious infections . Misuse of these antibiotics is common and costly,1 as physicians often opt for broad - spectr...
Carbon nanotubes (cnts) have attracted wide attention both in the research and industrial communities because of their unique structural and physical properties . In particular, field electron emission from cnts has been proposed to be one of the most promising as far as its practical application is concerned . This is...
A pseudoaneurysm is a pulsatile blood cavity surrounded by adventitial and perivascular tissues, which communicates with the arterial system through a defect in the arterial wall . It can be seen after iatrogenic arterial injury and has a reported rate of incidence of 0.88% to 8.00% in adults1,2). Recently, the treatme...
Pigment dispersion syndrome (pds) results from posterior bowing of the iris and rubbing between the lens zonules and epithelial layer of the iris, and usually affects myopic eyes in men during the third to fourth decade of life . The literature indicated that caucasians have the highest prevalence of pds among all race...
The mitochondrial genomes of higher plants are well known to be very different from their animal counterparts . Although presumably derived from the same endosymbiotic event (gray 1999), the genomes of higher plant mitochondria are large, rearrange freely, and yet are reported to mutate very slowly (palmer and herbon 1...
Despite advances in medical interventions, infective endocarditis (ie) remains a disease entity with considerable morbidity and mortality.1 - 4) poor prognoses of ie are related to valvular regurgitation and abscess formation secondary to tissue destruction, heart failure, and embolic complications.5) risk factors of i...
The standard treatment for differentiated thyroid cancer (dtc) consists of thyroidectomy followed by radio ablation therapy (rat) [13]. For rat an elevated thyrotropin (tsh) serum level of at least 30 mu / tsh levels of 30 mu /l and higher can be achieved either by complete thyroidectomy and four weeks of the l - t4 ho...
Marine mollusks from conus genus may produce from 50 up to 200 biologically active molecules that can be injected in the prey to capture or be employed as defense and/or escape mechanisms to deter competitors . The peptide toxins, called conopeptides, are composed of 1040 amino acids (including nonnatural amino acids) ...
Human hand movements are bimanual such that one hand can be intentionally used independently from the other . Here i designate this behavior to be an example of body symmetry for external body structures in which either hand can be used independently . Interestingly, there is a congenital human mirror movement disorder...
Adequate polymerization of light - cured composite materials is crucial for obtaining satisfactory mechanical properties, and it contributes to the overall clinical performance of direct composite restorations . Light - cured resin composites primarily rely on the sufficient intensity of light to achieve adequate polym...
Free air in the spinal canal has been presented in a number of situations, but it is rare for patients to develop symptomatic epidural gas (eg) after spinal surgery . Only 3 cases of eg, after surgery on the lumbar spine followed by the operative procedure, have been reported in the literature2,8,17), but pathogenetic ...
Takayasu arteritis (ta) is an idiopathic chronic inflammatory granulomatous disease affecting aorta and its main branches . The pathogenesis of ta includes vessel injury due to inflammatory mediators, e.g., tumor necrosis factor- (tnf-), released by t cells, natural killers, / t cells and macrophages; however, an imbal...
Reports about fungi that could be present in the nail without any clinical manifestations have been documented, and this was referred to as subclinical onychomycosis . Evidence that these fungi could change from the passive form to induce superficial fungal infection in case there is defect in the immune system of the ...
African trypanosomes of the trypanosoma brucei group are the causative agents of sleeping sickness and nagana (simarro et al ., 2011). T. brucei has been found throughout sub - saharan africa and comprises three morphologically identical but genetically different subspecies, specifically trypanosoma brucei brucei, tryp...
We obtained serum samples from 40 guinea pigs from 3 different regions of ecuador (figure 1), 20 from cuenca and 10 each from guayaquil and the manab region . Cuenca is located in the andes region, 2,500 m above sea level; it is one of the main producers of guinea pig meat . Guayaquil, the most populated city in ecuado...
Schistosomiasis is considered to be the most notable parasitic disease after malaria due to its wide geographic distribution, the large number of people affected by the disease, its severity, and its association with poor sanitary conditions [1, 2]. A schistosomal granuloma, the characteristic lesion, forms around matu...
Ehec o157 isolates: a total of 203 ehec o157 isolates were used in the present study . The isolates were sent to our laboratory from hospitals and health care centers in yamaguchi prefecture, japan, between 2004 and 2013, and originated from epidemiologically unrelated patients (189 isolates) and asymptomatic carriers ...
The cochlea is a non - linear mechano - electrical transducer that transforms sound pressure waves into electrical information, the so - called mechanoelectric transduction (met). The reverse electromechanical transduction is performed by the outer hair cell (ohc) which mechanically influences the vibration of the coch...
Neurotransmitter release is characterized by a steep relationship between vesicular release rate constant and intracellular ca concentration ([ca]i) (dodge and rahamimoff, 1967; bollmann et al ., 2000; this relationship has a slope of 35 in a double - logarithmic plot, indicating the minimal number of ca - binding step...
Medical student selection faces many challenges; as there is an imbalance between the number of students who apply and those that can be accommodated, only a limited number of applicants . The first impression is that as this selection process allows the best students to be accepted, it is an acceptable method; however...
Estramustine phosphate (emp), a carbamate ester of 17 beta - estradiol and nor - nitrogen mustard, has been used for the treatment of prostate cancer . Major toxicities by the treatment with emp are gastrointestinal and cardiovascular events with less frequent leukopenia.1 on the other hand, an increase in white blood ...
In this study, 16 weeks old, 32 male albino rats of wistar strain, weighing 220 20 g were used . Laboratory animals prepared by ethical committee of (protocol number; 2011 - 01). The rats were quarantined before irradiation, housed in individual stainless - steel cages in a pathogen - free environment in a windowless l...
The study population was recruited from chennai, the fourth largest city in india . In our study, the computed sample size is 5830 . This estimation is based on the following assumptions: the prevalence of dr in the general population is assumed to be 1.3%, with a relative precision of 25%, a drop - out rate of 20%, an...
A hallmark of human cognition is its ability to integrate rapidly perceptual (e.g., visual or auditory) input with stored linguistic and non - linguistic mental representations . This is particularly apparent during language - mediated eye gaze, a behavior almost all of us are engaged in every day . Look at the frog or...
In the cerebellar cortex, transmission from parallel and climbing fibre terminals to bergmann glial cells occurs at dedicated release sites that are ectopic to the presynaptic active zone [1, 2]. Ectopic release sites express short - term plasticity that resembles the adjacent synaptic sites in some respects but differ...
Application of cervical collars may reduce cervical spine movements but render tracheal intubation with a standard laryngoscope difficult . Removing the anterior portion of the collar before attempts at tracheal intubation has been suggested . Devices that facilitate intubation even in the presence of the cervical coll...
A woman visited our clinic, who is a first - episode medication - nave depression patient with a three - month history of depressed mood, suicidal ideation, lack of energy, feelings of worthlessness, psychomotor agitation, and significantly impaired occupational function (hamilton rating scale for depression [hrsd] sco...