Abstract Aim Our principal aim is to determine the retraction distance (RD) of transverse abdominis muscle after unilateral endoscopic transversus release (eTAR) for treatment midline and lateral hernias, compare it with same patient contralateral unreleased side. Material Methods We performed a retrospective analysis prospective database collection. defined RD as measure between edge rectus me...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of obesity on incidence of disability and mortality among non-disabled older Mexicans at baseline. MATERIALS AND METHODS The sample included 8 415 Mexicans aged ≥ 50 years from the Mexican Health and Aging Study (2001 -2012), who reported no limitations in activities of daily living (ADLs) at baseline and have complete data on all covariates. Sociodemographics,...

Disclosing information, thoughts, and feelings about personal and meaningful topics (experimental disclosure) is purported to have various health and psychological consequences (e.g., J. W. Pennebaker, 1993). Although the results of 2 small meta-analyses (P. G. Frisina, J. C. Borod, & S. J. Lepore, 2004; J. M. Smyth, 1998) suggest that experimental disclosure has a positive and significant effe...

M.C. Marchetti, J.F. Joanny, S. Ramaswamy, 4 T.B. Liverpool, J. Prost, 7 Madan Rao, 9 and R. Aditi Simha Physics Department and Syracuse Biomaterials Institute Syracuse University Syracuse NY 13244 USA Physicochimie Curie (CNRS-UMR168 and Université Pierre et Marie Curie) Institut Curie Section de Recherche 26 rue d’Ulm 75248 Paris Cedex 05 France Department of Physics Indian Institute of Scien...

The specificity of action of the lysosomal elastase of human neutrophil leucocytes on the oxidized B chain of insulin is similar to that of pig pancreatic elastase, but is more directed towards valine than alanine as the residue contributing the carboxyl group of the cleaved bond. The most susceptible bonds are Val-12-Glu-13 and Val-18-Cys(O3H)-19. Other bonds hydrolysed are Ala-14-Leu-15, Ser-...