CREMASTERIC REFLEX

K+- Induced Dilation of Cremasteric Arterioles Involves Na+/K+Atpase and Inward Rectifier K+ Channels

Treatment of debilitating cremasteric synkinesia with intracremasteric botulinum-A toxin injections.

OBJECTIVE To describe the surgical technique of botulinum-A toxin injection into the cremasteric muscles of a 26-year-old male with bilateral cremasteric muscle spasms causing significant pain and limitation of activity. This pain has been refractory to multiple previous therapies, including inguinal nerve blocks and bilateral orchidopexies with cremasteric muscle lysis. Multiple imaging modali...

Myenteric reflex.

T HE question of an enteric nervous mechanism capable of independent reflex activity has been under investigation since Nothnagel (I) and Luederitz (2) first noted that stimulation of the gut usually produces a contraction orad but not caudad. Luederitz also observed that this response could still be obtained after denervation and, therefore, considered it to be due to a local reflex which late...

بررسی تاثیر طب فشاری بر رفلکس تهوع (Gag Reflex)

سابقه و هدف : رفلکس تهوع با شروع بعضی معاینات تشخیصی ویا درمانی مطرح است.با توجه به گزارشاتی از طب سنتی مبنی بر تأثیر طب فشاری و طب سوزنی بر میزان رفلکس تهوع و گزارش دو مورد از موفقیت طب سنتی بر میزان رفلکس تهوع و عدم گزارشی از تجربه آن در کشور،در این تحقیق تأثیر طب فشاری بر روی افرادی که هنگام معاینه بالینی با استفاده از آبسلانگ دارای حالت تهوع بودند در سال 1392 انجام گرفت. مواد و روش:تحقیق به...

Buccopalpebral reflex in Parkinson disease and blink reflex study.

OBJECTIVE To define a new primitive reflex named the buccopalpebral reflex (BPR), and to investigate this reflex clinically and neurophysiologically in patients with Parkinson disease. METHODS This prospectively designed study included 17 patients, 9 BPR positive patients, and 8 BPR negative patients in Ankara Research and Training Hospital, Ankara, Turkey, and was carried out between January...