OBJECTIVE To investigate the ultrasonic effects of progressive resistance exercise (PRE) for the treatment of patients with breast cancer-related lymphedema (BCRL). SUBJECTS AND METHOD The 32 patients with diagnosed BCRL were randomly divided into two groups: the PRE group and the non-PRE group. After complex decongestive physiotherapy, PRE was performed by 0.5 kg dumbbell while wearing a com...

The cornea is a transparent soft tissue covering the front of the eye. The biomechanical properties of the cornea have been commonly investigated by uniaxial tensile and inflation testing methods. The cornea like many other hydrated tissue swells when immersed in an ionic solution. Previous studies on hydrated tissues have shown that mechanical properties and hydration are closely related. The ...

excessive production and stockpile of scrap tires cause some environmental and sanitary risks throughout the world. to manage these materials, possible use of soil-tire mixtures has been recently propounded in civil engineering projects. a few studies previously have been conducted to evaluate behavior of clay-tire mixtures, while swelling properties, consolidation and settlement characteristic...

this experiment was conducted with broiler chickens to evaluate the effects of high and low swelling bentonite (natural and processed by cuso4) supplementation in diets on performance and carcass traits. a total of 300 day-old aryan broiler’s chicks were used in a completely randomized design with 5 dietary treatments. six pen replicates of 10 chicks were assigned to each of five dietary treatm...

i ntroduction: our study was designed to assess the effect of the submucosal injection of dexamethasone on postoperative discomfort after surgical removal of impacted mandibular third molars. m at erials and methods : twenty six patients with bilaterally bony impacted mandibular third molars were recruited to this split mouth study. on the study side, prior to surgery, 8 mg of dexamethasone was...

A total of 50 pairs of pig eyes was exsmined by meam of ultraPound pachymetry (&h-Pen, Mentor and DGH-Pachette 500, Technomed). The comeal thickness was de&m&d inunediately ai?er em~~leation and after 1) storage in a moist chamber; 2) storage io aqus bide&; 3) Dholoablation with the excimer-laser. l&.&The swelling of different almeas underlied high fluctuations, whereas the differmca between th...

A total of 50 pairs of pig eyes was exsmined by meam of ultraPound pachymetry (&h-Pen, Mentor and DGH-Pachette 500, Technomed). The comeal thickness was de&m&d inunediately ai?er em~~leation and after 1) storage in a moist chamber; 2) storage io aqus bide&; 3) Dholoablation with the excimer-laser. l&.&The swelling of different almeas underlied high fluctuations, whereas the differmca between th...

Isolated frog skin epithelia undergo marked, but reversible swelling when the external skin surface is bathed with conventional NaCl Ringer's and the internal surface with KCl Ringer's solutions. In 2 hours, epithelial thickness increased by over twofold. When NaCl Ringer's was replaced on both sides of the skin, volume returned to control levels in less than 1 hour. When sulfate, rather than c...

Weak polyelectrolyte brushes exhibit pH-responsive swelling behaviour, tuneable surface 10 In this paper, we demonstrate the growth of two weak polybase brushes by surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerisation (SI-ATRP) using electrostatically adsorbed polyelectrolyte macro-initiators. Poly[2-(diethylamino)ethyl methacrylate] (PDEA) and poly[2-(diisopropylamino)ethyl methacrylate] (PDP...