The purpose of this mini-review is to outline diversity of chest wall vibrations, specify biomechanical peculiarities and point out a few problems crucial for development of diagnostic and therapeutic applications of chest wall vibrations. The review considers two types of chest wall vibrations: spontaneous, induced by breathing, and forced (or artificial), induced by external vibration forces....

We recently reported that chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) patients harbour high levels of STAT5 when they progress to advanced phases of disease. Advanced disease is characterized by an increased incidence of BCR-ABL1 mutations. We now describe a highly significant correlation between STAT5 expression and the incidence of BCR-ABL1 mutations in primary CML. Forced expression of STAT5 in murine B...

the forced degradation study of lidocaine hcl was carried out according to the ich guideline q1a (r2). the degradation conditions were assessed to be hydrolysis, oxidation, photolysis and dry heat during 24 h, 48 h and 72 h and then the samples were investigated by gc-fid method and nuclear magnetic resonance (nmr) spectroscopy. according to these results, the degradation products were not obse...

Stress-induced cytokine changes may be the link between stress and the pathogenesis of psychiatric disorders such as depression, and organic diseases such as infections, autoimmune diseases and cancer. We tested the effect of stress on interleukin (IL)-2, IL-4, IL-6, IL-10, IL-22, tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-α and interferon (IFN)-γ serum levels in male Wistar rats. Rats underwent either acute...

c-reactive protein (crp) is an acute-phase protein synthesized predominantly by the hepatocytes in response to tissue damage or inflammation. levels of acute-phase proteins rise rapidly, during infection and after injury. we take up the study to correlate serum crp levels with other important predictive markers of outcome in copd. patient with stable copd (no exacerbation in the last two months...

‎in this paper‎, ‎we investigate a damped korteweg-de‎ ‎vries equation with forcing on a periodic domain‎ ‎$mathbb{t}=mathbb{r}/(2pimathbb{z})$‎. ‎we can obtain that if the‎ ‎forcing is periodic with small amplitude‎, ‎then the solution becomes‎ ‎eventually time-periodic.

the dynamic response of a transversely isotropic, linearly elastic layer bonded to the surface of a half-space of a different transversely isotropic material under arbitrary shape surface loads is considered. with the help of displacements and stresses green’s functions, an analytical formulation is presented for the determination of the displacements and stresses at any point in both surface l...

Livestock herders have historically played a key role in developing and sustaining the rangeland regions of the Greater Himalayas. Rangelands, which cover approximately one-third of the Himalayan land area, are concentrated in the higher elevation regions above 3000 m where grasses and alpine shrubs are the dominant vegetation types. Through the pursuit of various forms of nomadic and transhuma...