introduction: huntington disease (hd) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease which affects movement control system of the brain. hd symptoms lead to patient’s gait change and influence stride time intervals. in this study, we present a grey box mathematical model to simulate hddisorders. this model contains main physiological findings about bg. methods: we used artificial neural networks (a...

conclusions in conclusion, the prevalence of hbv infection was low in the south of iran, but genotype d represented the major hbv genotype in this population. among the variables, age, duration of hd, history of blood transfusion, and using shared hd devices influenced the prevalence of hbv among hd patients. results both kinds of assay determined that nine (5.88%) patients were hbv positive (h...

serum erythropoietin (epo) concentration was measured by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (elisa) in 31 cases of chronic renal failure (crf), including 20 hemodialysis (hd) patients, and compared with that of 31 healthy normal controls. each patient served as a self-control comparing his or her pretreatment level with post-treatment values. there was a significant negative correlation betwe...

The paper discusses the results of an experimental investigation carried out on reinforced concrete (RC) beams strengthened in shear by externally bonded fiber reinforced plastic (FRP) sheets. The study is devoted to analyze the role that the transverse steel reinforcement and the beam slenderness ratio could play on the resistant mechanism of RC beams strengthened in shear by FRP composites. T...

Buckling of slender structures under compressive loading is a failure of infinitesimal stability due to a confluence of two factors: the energy density non-convexity and the smallness of Korn’s constant. The problem has been well understood only for bodies with simple geometries when the slenderness parameter is well defined. In this paper we present the first rigorous analysis of buckling for ...

huntington disease (hd) is a genetically dominant condition caused by expanded cag repeats which code for glutamine in the hd gene product, huntingtin. huntingtin is expressed in almost all tissues, so abnormalities outside the brain can also be expected. involvement of nuclei and mitochondria in hd pathophysiology has been suggested. in fact, mitochondrial dysfunction is reported in brains of ...