Cleidocranial dysplasia (CCD) is an autosomal-dominant heritable skeletal disease caused by heterozygous mutations in the RUNX2 gene. We studied a Chinese family that included three affected individuals with CCD phenotypes; the clinical features of patients with CCD include delayed closure of fontanelles, frontal bossing, dysplasia of clavicles, late tooth eruption, and other skeletal anomalies...

UNLABELLED The Chemical Component Dictionary (CCD) is a chemical reference data resource that describes all residue and small molecule components found in Protein Data Bank (PDB) entries. The CCD contains detailed chemical descriptions for standard and modified amino acids/nucleotides, small molecule ligands and solvent molecules. Each chemical definition includes descriptions of chemical prope...

Crossed cerebellar diaschisis (CCD) is defined as a reduction in blood flow in the cerebellar hemisphere contralateral to the supratentorial focal lesion. The phenomenon termed parakinesia brachialis oscitans (PBO) in which stroke patients experience involuntary stretching of the hemiplegic arm during yawning is rarely reported. The concurrence of CCD and PBO has never been described. A 52-year...

A new three-point combined compact difference (CCD) scheme is developed for numerical models. The major features of the CCD scheme are: three point, implicit, sixth-order accuracy, and inclusion of boundary values. Due to its combination of the first and second derivatives, the CCD scheme becomes more compact and more accurate than normal compact difference schemes. The efficient twin-tridiagon...

Proinflammatory cytokines may sensitize primary sensory neurons and facilitate development of neuropathic pain processes after peripheral nerve injury. The goal of this study was to determine whether responses of dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons to exogenous tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) are altered in a chronically compressed DRG (CCD) injury model. Extracellular recordings from te...

This paper presents an approach to lane detection for a vehicle. The positions of the lane marks can be evaluated by visual information of the image captured from a single charge-coupled device (CCD) camera. This proposed approach originally utilizes the properties of the CCD array in a camera to achieve the aim of objects positioning, since one pixel information produces two equations and incr...

Liu, Baogang, Huiqing Li, Sorin J. Brull, and Jun-Ming Zhang. Increased sensitivity of sensory neurons to tumor necrosis factor in rats with chronic compression of the lumbar ganglia. J Neurophysiol 88: 1393–1399, 2002; 10.1152/jn.00021.2002. Proinflammatory cytokines may sensitize primary sensory neurons and facilitate development of neuropathic pain processes after peripheral nerve injury. Th...

PURPOSE To study the frequency of cervical spine dysfunction (CCD) signs and symptoms in subjects with and without temporomandibular disorder (TMD) and to assess the craniocervical posture influence on TMD and CCD coexistence. METHODS Participants were 71 women (19 to 35 years), assessed about TMD presence; 34 constituted the TMD group (G1) and 37 comprised the group without TMD (G2). The CCD...