OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Determine the impact of adenoid size and prior adenoidectomy on outcomes of sphincter pharyngoplasty. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective review. METHODS Retrospective review of patients 18 years of age or younger, who underwent sphincter pharyngoplasty for velopharyngeal insufficiency (VPI) from 2007 to 2012. Nasal endoscopy and nasometry testing were administered pre- and pos...

The neuraminidase gene, nanH, is present in the O1, non-toxigenic Vibrio cholerae Amazonia strain. Its location has been assigned to a 150 kb NotI DNA fragment, with the use of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and DNA hybridization. This NotI fragment is positioned inside 630 kb SfiI and 1900 kb I-CeuI fragments of chromosome 1. Association of the pathogenicity island VPI-2, carrying nanH and o...

Velopharyngeal insufficiency (VPI) means that the velopharyngeal closure is inadequate or disturbed. VPI may be organic or functional, congenital or acquired and is caused by structural alterations or paresis. The symptoms are primarily to be found in speech (hypernasality), more rarely in swallowing and hearing. The management types are as follows: speech therapy, surgery, speech bulb, and oth...

Anterograde labeling of the cervical spinothalamic tract was combined with retrograde labeling of thalamocortical cells projecting to the hand region of the second somatosensory cortex (hSII) to identify likely sites in the thalamus for processing and transmitting nociceptive information to hSII. Anterograde labeling of terminals was done with 2% WGA-HRP injections in the cervical enlargement; ...

Genes located on the CTX element and the Vibrio cholerae pathogenicity island (VPI) were investigated in 297 clinical V. cholerae O1 and 76 environmental O1 and non-O1 isolates from Brazil between 1991 and 1999. RAPD analysis suggested that serogroup O1 strains regardless of clinical or environmental source were clonal while non-O1 strains showed greater diversity. PCR analysis showed that 71% ...

A primary challenge to large-scale data integration is creating semantic equivalences between elements from different data sources that correspond to the same real-world entity or concept. Dataspaces propose a pay-as-you-go approach: automated mechanisms such as schema matching and reference reconciliation provide a initial correspondences, termed candidate matches, and then user feedback is us...

Embryonic hypothalamic tissue originating from spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) was implanted in young normotensive Wistar Kyoto rats in an attempt to localize hypothalamic regions directly responsible for the induction of hypertension. A 25% increase in host systolic blood pressure as compared with the controls was recorded 3 months after implantation in the animals receiving rostral hypo...

The Distributed Generator types have different combinations of real and reactive power characteristics, which can affect the total loss voltage support/control radial distribution networks (RDNs) in ways. This paper investigates impact DG’s penetration level (PL) on profile RDNs based DG types. are modeled depending they inject. profiles obtained under various circumstances were fairly compared...

Background and Objectives: Annexin is the common name for genes and proteins that were identified as calcium-dependent phospholipid-binding proteins. Recently a more complex set of functions has been recognized for this superfamily of proteins including in vesicle trafficking, cell division, apoptosis, calcium signalling, mineralization, crystal nucleation inside the extracellular organelle...