Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) endeavours to restore the lost functions of the nervous system by means of electrical stimulation. It is a multidisciplinary field on the interface between the neuroscience, engineering, rehabilitation, and the clinic. In this review, the principal notions behind FES are outlined together with the relevant moments of its history. The specific research pro...

UNLABELLED The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the tumor uptake of 16α-(18)F-fluoro-17β-estradiol ((18)F-FES) and (18)F-FDG using PET and expressions of sex hormone receptors, such as estrogen receptor (ER), as well as glucose transporter 1 (GLUT-1) and Ki-67 analyzed by the immunohistochemistry method in mesenchymal uterine tumors. METHODS Forty-seven patients w...

Rapid industrial development has led to excessive levels of various contaminants in natural water, which poses a challenge the innovation environmental remediation technology. In recent years, iron sulfide and its modified materials have attracted extensive attention due their high activity advanced oxidation processes widespread existence anoxic environment. This paper reviewed latest advances...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the feasibility of unsupervised community use of an array-based automated setup functional electrical stimulator for current foot-drop functional electrical stimulation (FES) users. DESIGN Feasibility study. SETTING Gait laboratory and community use. PARTICIPANTS Participants (N=7) with diagnosis of unilateral foot-drop of central neurologic origin (>6mo) who were...

Background: The gait pattern after stroke can be disturbed by foot drop. The conventional approach to the treatment of drop foot gait is a splint, the ankle-foot orthosis (AFO). An active approach is functional electrical stimulation (FES). Functional electrical stimulation (FES) refers to electrical stimulation of muscles in order to improve the impaired motor function. This is achieved by act...

The temperatures of shock-compressed FeS and FeS 2in the pressure ranges 125-170 GPa nd 100-244 GPa, respectively, are reported and used to constrain the melting curves and thermodynamic properties to core pressures. A fit of the Lindemann lawparameters corresponding to the usual functional form for the lattice Grtineisen parameter gives YL = 1.17:L'0.13 andnœ = 0.5_+0.5 for the high-pressure p...

KIT receptor is required for mast cell development, survival, and migration toward its ligand stem cell factor (SCF). Many solid tumors express SCF and this leads to mast cell recruitment to tumors and release of mediators linked to tumor angiogenesis, growth, and metastasis. Here, we investigate whether FES protein-tyrosine kinase, a downstream effector of KIT signaling in mast cells, is requi...

During the operation of cytochrome bc(1), a key enzyme of biological energy conversion, the iron-sulfur head domain of one of the subunits of the catalytic core undergoes a large-scale movement from the catalytic quinone oxidation Q(o) site to cytochrome c(1). This changes a distance between the two iron-two sulfur (FeS) cluster and other cofactors of the redox chains. Although the role and the...

UNLABELLED The presence of estrogen receptor (ER) in breast cancer is a prognostic indicator for both disease-free and overall survival. 16α-(18)F-fluoro-17β-estradiol ((18)F-FES) with PET is a noninvasive test for evaluation of ER expression and has been used for predicting response to endocrine therapy in patients with ER-positive metastatic breast cancer. The purpose of this study was to cor...

As a neuroprosthetic technique, functional electrical stimulation (FES) can restore lost motor performance of impaired patients. Through delivering electrical pulses to target muscles, the joint movement can be eventually elicited. This work presents a real-time FES system which is able to deal with two neuroprosthetic missions: one is estimating FES-induced joint torque with evoked electromyog...