Like all organisms in nature, bacteria too have their own immune system and defense mechanisms. The antagonistic factors like antibiotics, bacteriocins, lysozymes, siderophores, proteases, and/or hydrogen peroxide and the alteration of pH values by organic acids produced either singly or in combination act as defense substances. Bacteriocins are potent antimicrobial peptides and proteins, found...

OBJECTIVES Hepatic incidentalomas (HI) are asymptomatic lesions detected incidentally during investigations for other pathologies. This prospective series outlines the management and outcomes of 121 HI managed over 7 years. METHODS Data were recorded prospectively on 121 patients referred between 2003 and 2010 for assessment of HI out of 1081 patients referred for a hepatic resection. Patient...

BACKGROUND TENS (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation) is probably the most diffused physical therapy used for antalgic purposes. Although it continues to be used by trial and error, correct targeting of paresthesias evoked by the electrical stimulation on the painful area is diffusely considered very important for pain relief. AIM To investigate if TENS antalgic effect is higher in th...

BACKGROUND In the currently available research publications on electrical therapy of low back pain, generally no control groups or detailed randomization were used, and such studies were often conducted with relatively small groups of patients, based solely on subjective questionnaires and pain assessment scales (lacking measurement methods to objectify the therapeutic progress). The available ...

The general idea that a Delaunay TIN (DT) is more appropriate than non-Delaunay TINs, due to ‘better’ shaped triangles, might be true for many applications, but not for height dependent analytical queries. This is because the distribution of the triangle tessellation is defined in the two-dimensional XY-plane, by ignoring the Z-value in the Delaunay empty circum circle criterion. Alternatively,...

93 Received August 19, 2013; revised and accepted September 18, 2013. Published online October 5, 2013; doi: 10.1620/tjem.231.93. *These authors are equally contributed to this study. Correspondence: Hwi-young Cho, Department of Physical Therapy, College of Health Science, Gachon University, 191, Hambangmoero, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon 406-799, South Korea. e-mail address: [email protected] Task-R...

BACKGROUND Research in animal models suggests that transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) and conditioned pain modulation (CPM) produce analgesia via two different supraspinal pathways. No known studies have examined whether TENS and CPM applied simultaneously in human subjects will enhance the analgesic effect of either treatment alone. The purpose of the current study was to inves...