The nasopharyngeal airway (NPA) is a simple airway adjunct used by various healthcare professionals. It has some advantages over the oropharyngeal airway (OPA) but despite this it appears to be used less frequently. This may be due to fears over intracranial placement in cases of possible basal skull fracture. This fear, promulgated by training, is based solely on two single case reports and re...

three species of paratylenchus were collected and identified from vineyards and apple orchards in kermanshah province, western iran. descriptions, morphometric data, line drawings and microscopic photographs are provided for these three species. paratylenchus audriellus and paratylenchus straeleni are the two very closely related species, with a stylet longer than 40 µm, four lateral lines and ...

Cystic Fibrosis Unit, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK Portex Respiratory Medicine Unit, University College London Institute of Child Health, London, UK *Author for correspondence: Tel.: +44 207 905 2178; Fax: +44 207 813 8514; [email protected] “...recent pilot studies in subjects with more advanced disease, where the exercise intervention runs o...

Stylet-Oil was effective in reducing incidence of tobacco etch virus (TEV) (Genus: Potyvirus, Family: Potyviridae) in ‘Scotch Bonnet’ pepper (Capsicum chinense Jacquin) plots by about 24% and delaying its spread by 7 days. A backpack mist blower (low volume) was used to apply JMS Stylet-Oil at pressures of about 1000 kPa to pepper plants weekly, from transplant until the end of the crop. Seedli...

In mosquitoes, precise and efficient finding of a host animal is crucial for survival. One of the poorly understood aspects of mosquito blood-feeding behavior is how these insects target an optimal site in order to penetrate the skin and blood vessels without alerting the host animal. Here we provide new findings that a piercing structure of the mouthpart of the mosquitoes, the stylet, is an es...

Detailed morphological comparisons with light and scanning electron microscopy were made of white females and cysts of several isolates of Globodera tabacum sspp. tabacum (GTT), virginiae (GTV), and solanacearum (GTS). Observations focused on body shape, anterior region including head shape, lip pattern, stylet morphology, and the terminal area in females; and body shape and terminal area of cy...

The new genus Dastychius has been instituted for the species Isohypsibius improvisus Dastych, 1984. It has claws of the Isohypsibius type, rigid buccal tube without ventral lamina and with ridge-shaped apophyses for the insertion of the stylet muscles; peribuccal lamellae absent; peribuccal papulae seem to be present but the datum should be confirmed; pharyngeal bulb with apophyses and placoids...

BACKGROUND The EndoFlex is a new type of tracheal tube with an adjustable distal tip that can be bent without the use of a stylet. The aim of this study was to compare a standard endotracheal tube with the EndoFlex tracheal tube for intubation in patients with simulated cervical spine injury. METHODS A group of 60 patients without any kind of the cervical spine injury, classified as the ASA p...