Red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) were immobilized with one of the following drug combinations: ketamine/xylazine (n = 22), ketamine/promazine (n = 35), ketamine/midazolam (n = 13), or tiletamine/zolazepam (n = 22). Foxes given ketamine/xylazine had the shortest induction and longest recovery times relative to other drug combinations, whereas foxes given ketamine/midazolam had the longest induction tim...

Background Recently a single-point, saturation-recovery myocardial T1 mapping sequence (SMART1Map = Saturation Method using Adaptive Recovery Times for cardiac T1 Mapping) was presented [1]. Compared to common methods like MOLLI, SMART1Map measures true T1 instead of apparent T1 relaxation, is more time efficient and can track exact TI times instead of estimated ones based on the heart rate dur...

AIMS To compare the pharmacodynamics of cisatracurium and rocuronium-induced neuromuscular block following single dose, allowing either spontaneous or neostigmine-accelerated complete recovery. METHODS Following the ethics committee approval and informed consent, 120 patients scheduled for elective surgery under TIVA with tracheal intubation were randomized into 4 groups with different cisatr...

We consider inventory systems of “perishable” goods. Perishable goods cannot be carried from one period to another. Examples of perishable goods include newspaper, Christmas tree, and many grocery items like milk and banana. Here, a period could be one day, or one week, or any time frame that is appropriate in the application context. Suppose that a retailer sells a particular perishable produc...

For persistent systems to be useful they must provide efficient snapshot and recovery mechanisms. This paper describes the design of the persistence architecture of the Grasshopper operating system which addresses these requirements. It shows how the major components of the architecture interact with one another and how it can be used to provide fast snapshot and recovery times. A novel feature...

Currently, the repertoire of cellular and molecular pathways that control skeletal muscle atrophy and hypertrophy are not well defined. It is possible that intracellular regulatory signaling pathways are active at different times during the muscle hypertrophy process. The hypothesis of the given experiments was that cellular signals related to protein translation would be active at early time p...

In larval lamprey, hemitransections were performed on the right side of the rostral spinal cord to axotomize ipsilateral reticulospinal (RS) neurons. First, at short recovery times (2-3 weeks), uninjured RS neurons contralateral to hemitransections fired a smooth train of action potentials in response to sustained depolarization, whereas axotomized neurons fired a single short burst or short re...

BACKGROUND This study was designed to investigate the impact of bispectral index (BIS) or A-line AAI index (based on middle-latency auditory evoked potential) monitoring on recovery times and drug consumption when compared with standard anaesthetic practice during desflurane-remifentanil anaesthesia. METHODS After having obtained approval from the institutional review board and written inform...

Microwave water disinfection is a rapid purification technique which can give billions of people access to clean drinking water. However, better understanding of bacterial recovery after microwave heating over time is necessary to determine parameters such as delayed bacterial growth rates and maximum bacterial yields. Mathematical models for Enterococcus faecalis recovery after microwave treat...