Myasthenia gravis is a chronic disease characterized by abnormal fatigue of the voluntary muscles. This fatigue is due to a progressive failure of conduction at the myoneural junction after muscle contraction, and can be temporarily relieved by prostigmine sulphate (Walker, 1934). The exact nature of the neuromuscular block remains obscure, and an analysis of neuromuscular transmission in myast...

Automatic license plate detection and recognition has numerous applications. A large number of schemes have already been proposed in order to make the detection and recognition process efficient. However, a very little work has been done on Bengali license plate recognition. Wide variation among the license plate patterns, complex background, and the difficulty in segmenting Bengali characters ...

The Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) offers significant benefits to the aircraft, ship, personnel, and operational capabilities. EMALS has such advantages as high thrust, good controllability, reusable, etc., as a launching motor, a double-side plate Permanent Magnet Linear Synchronous Motor (PMLSM) can provide high instantaneous thrust. This paper presents the design and analysis...

Motor end plate jitter was studied by single fibre EMG in the orbicularis oculi muscle of eight patients with facioscapulohumeral dystrophy activated by extramuscular nerve stimulation. The jitter was found to be slightly larger in comparison with the normal controls, although still within the normal limits in each patient. The findings are considered to indicate absence of any significant neur...

PURPOSE To assess the probable actions of ropivacaine, 50% enantiomeric excess bupivacaine mixture (S75-R25) and levobupivacaine on neuromuscular transmission in vitro. METHODS Thirty rats were distributed into groups (n=5) according to the drug used: ropivacaine, bupivacaine (S75-R25) and levobupivacaine. The concentration used for the three local anesthetics (LA) was 5 µg.mL. (-1)The follow...

The motor/guide contact evaluation is one of the most important processes to get high performances of the linear ultrasonic motor. In this paper, displacement power spectrum is proposed and investigated to evaluate the motor/guide contact of rectangular plate linear ultrasonic motor. First, the effect

Miniature end plate potential (mepp) frequency in innervated extensor muscle is significantly higher than in soleus muscle. 9 days after nerve crush mepps of low amplitude and prolonged duration reappeared at a frequency of 2% of control and were similar to normal muscles after 35 days. Membrane potential began to increase 9-10 days after nerve crush and at 30 days was similar to controls. The ...