BACKGROUND Trigger-point injection (TPI) therapy is an effective modality for symptomatic treatment of myofascial pain. Serious adverse effects are rarely observed. In this report, we present the case of a 39-year-old man who experienced severe, transient hypokalemic paralysis in the context of TPI therapy with methylprednisolone, bupivacaine, and epinephrine. He was successfully treated with e...

Marked hypoalphalipoproteinemia was found together with relatively low serum cholesterol, triacylglycerol, and LDL levels in a triose-phosphate isomerase (TPI; D-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate ketol-isomerase, EC 5.3.1.1)-deficient Hungarian family, especially in the two compound-heterozygote brothers. Apart from a slight increase in palmitic and stearic acids together with a slight decrease in ole...

In dentistry, pure gutta-percha (trans-1,4-polyisoprene (TPI)) is widely used as a main component of root canal filling materials. TPI has an interesting shape memory formed through cross-linking, and this characteristic is expected to be very effective for development of novel dental treatments; in particular, modification of the shape recovery temperature to the intraoral temperature (37 ̋C) ...

Human lymphatic filariasis is a major tropical disease transmitted through mosquito vectors which take up microfilarial larvae from the blood of infected subjects. Microfilariae are produced by long-lived adult parasites, which also release a suite of excretory-secretory products that have recently been subject to in-depth proteomic analysis. Surprisingly, the most abundant secreted protein of ...

The Treponema pallidum immobilization (TPI) test has received wide attention as a diagnostic test for syphilis, but few studies have appeared on the response of this test to adequate treatment for syphilis. The Blue Star study of the Public Health Service (Bauer, 1951 ; Shafer, Usilton, and Price, 1954) offered a group of patients who had had bonafide syphilis, who had been adequately treated, ...

O artigo analisa os precedentes do Tribunal Penal Internacional (tpi) que trataram da exclusão de provas obtidas ilicitamente com base na alínea "b" 69(7) Estatuto Roma. Esse dispositivo prevê uma norma altamente discricionária, segundo a qual prova obtida por meio violação direitos humanos internacionalmente reconhecidos pode ser excluída processo se sua admissão, nas circunstâncias em foi col...

The addition of lysozyme to the survival medium has been shown (Metzger, Hardy, and Nell, 1961) to increase the rate of immobilization of Treponema pallidum by syphilitic serum and complement; this might allow T. pallidum immobilization (TPI) tests to be completed in a working day. But, more important from the point of view of diagnosis, was the possibility of increasing the sensitivity of the ...

Framework for Improving the Testing Process When I wrote my book Critical Testing Processes in the early 2000s, I started with the premise that some test processes are critical, some are not. I designed this lightweight framework for test process improvement in order to focus the test team and test manager on a few test areas that they simply must do properly. This contrasts with the more expan...

O presente trabalho procurou analisar como o princípio da complementariedade previsto no Estatuto de Roma representa demonstração responsabilidade subsidiária do Tribunal Penal Internacional (TPI), forma evitar a propositura pedidos apuração perante aquela corte sem obediência requisitos prévios admissibilidade. Alguns dos passos galgados para chegar lá foram apresentar os aspectos históricos T...