Results Increased paraspinal muscular activity at convex side of scoliotic curve is well known and documented finding. Main directions of research are related to structural changes in muscles and regulation of muscular contractility. In most cases the myopathic changes are considered as the consequence of the postural deformity. Very little information is available on the mechanisms by which su...

BACKGROUND Vertebral wedging is associated with spinal deformity progression in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. Reporting frontal and sagittal wedging separately could be misleading since these are projected values of a single three-dimensional deformation of the vertebral body. The objectives of this study were to determine if three-dimensional vertebral body wedging is present in mild scolio...

BACKGROUND Scoliosis is a common medical condition in children and adolescents, particularly girls. It is accompanied by disorders of multiple systems and organs, especially the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, which significantly affects general physical capacity. AIM OF THE STUDY This study sought to assess lung function, chest mobility, and physical fitness in scoliotic girls underg...

STUDY DESIGN Three-dimensional (3D) characterization of the thoracic scoliotic spine (cross-sectional study). OBJECTIVES To investigate the presence of subgroups within Lenke type-1 curves by evaluating the thoracic segment indices extracted from 3D reconstructions of the spine, and to propose a new clinically relevant means (the daVinci representation) to report 3D spinal deformities. SUMM...

Determination of the breeding value presence or absence ear spines and anthocyanin stem color in bread winter wheat plants steppes Black Sea coast Ukraine. Methods. Growing field. Phenological observations, weight 1000 grains, analysis variance statistical significantly difference by t - criterion pairwise comparison. Results. Groups lines with green color, as well different combinations both p...

Dendritic spines are actin-rich compartments that protrude from the microtubule-rich dendritic shafts of principal neurons. Spines contain receptors and postsynaptic machinery for receiving the majority of glutamatergic inputs. Recent studies have shown that microtubules polymerize from dendritic shafts into spines and that signaling through synaptic NMDA receptors regulates this process. Howev...

Background Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) causes asymmetry of the torso, and this is often the primary concern of patients. Surgery aims to minimise the visual asymmetry. It is not clear how scoliosis makes the torso asymmetric or how scoliosis surgery changes that asymmetry when compared to the distribution of asymmetries seen in a non-scoliotic group of normal controls. Methods Surfa...