OBJECTIVE Spinal cord injury (SCI) patients had major trauma during surgery, which thus necessitates optimal choice of anesthesia drugs. The specific selection of anesthesia agents may affect body immune system. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the anesthesia effect of propofol and dexmedetomidine on the rat SCI and their effects of Th1/Th2. MATERIALS AND METHODS Improved ALLEN's pou...

We extend a non-Tikhonov asymptotic embedding, proposed earlier, for calculation of conduction velocity restitution curves in ionic models of cardiac excitability. Conduction velocity restitution is the simplest non-trivial spatially extended problem in excitable media, and in the case of cardiac tissue it is an important tool for prediction of cardiac arrhythmias and fibrillation. An idealized...

ABSTRACT The minute litter bug genus Corixidea Reuter, 1891 currently comprises nine valid American species. Herein, we describe quaresmai sp. nov. from one of the last remaining remnants Atlantic Forest in northeast Brazil. new species is characterized by distal extension anophoric process parallel and close to left lateral margin tergites, elongated tergum 8, with a pectinate half filiform ti...

OBJECTIVE Tympanostomy tubes (TTs) are commonly rendered nonfunctional by mucus plug formation. The purpose of this study was to determine whether an in vitro model could be developed to assess TT plug formation with results consistent with human trials. STUDY DESIGN An ear chamber was designed to mimic middle ear air and mucus flow conditions in post-TT otorrhea. TT occlusion was tested and ...

The paper represents the first part of a series dealing with the Eastern Hemisphere species of the genus Polymerus Hahn, 1831 and includes a redescription of the genus and the nominative subgenus, and descriptions of Pachycentrum subgen. nov., P. (Polymerus) russatus sp. nov. and P. (Pachycentrum) unciniger sp. nov. The specific name P. funestus Reuter, 1906 is transferred from the subgenus Poe...

We extend a nonstandard asymptotic method proposed earlier, for calculation of conduction velocity restitution curves in ionic models of cardiac excitability. Conduction velocity restitution is the simplest nontrivial spatially extended problem in excitable media, and in the case of cardiac tissue it is an important tool for prediction of cardiac arrythmias and fibrillation. An idealized conduc...

We summarize the status of theory resummed quantum gravity. In context Planck scale cosmology formulation Bonanno and Reuter, we review use our gravity approach to Einstein’s general relativity estimate value cosmological constant as ρΛ = (0.0024 eV)4. Constraints on susy GUT models that follow from closeness experiment are noted. Various consistency checks calculation discussed. particular, He...

background: los angeles classification is widely adopted as a means of unifying endoscopic observation for gerd. we assessed the inter- and intra-observer variability of la classification. materials and methods: two-hundred fifty-four still images of the lower esophagus taken by an expert endoscopist (rm) were randomly selected and presented to 9 gastroenterologists (2 females, 6 experts, 3 tra...