Jaipur food designed and developed by Dr. P.K. Sethi is second most widely used foot piece in the world after SACH foot (Solid ankle cushion heel). SACH foot was designed for use in colder climate of western countries. The work on culture specific innovation, The Jaipur foot started with the modification of SACH foot. Jaipur foot made up of microcellular rubber and wooden ankle block with iron ...

A T-handle has been designed to be used for minimally invasive implantation of a dynamic hip screw to repair fractures of the proximal femur. It is capable of being used in two actions: (i) push and hold (while using an angle guide) and (ii) application of torque when using the insertion wrench and lag screw tap. The T-handle can be held in a power or precision grip. It is suitable for either s...

Intact pyridoxine glucoside showed about 20% of microbiological activity of equivalent mole of pyridoxine for Saccharomyces carlsbergensis 4228 ATCC 9080. The activity was gradually increased accompanied with the prolonged incubation. It seems that pyridoxine glucoside is hydrolyzed to pyridoxine and glucose by a-glucosidase of Saccharomyces carlsbergensis 4228 ATCC 9080 and can be bioassayed a...

Methods Forty-one extracted single-rooted teeth were included in the present study. After content removal and autoclaving, they were divided into eight groups among which two were used as positive and negative controls. The remaining six groups were instrumented and irrigated with solutions containing 17% EDTA, sterile saline solution, and different concentrations of NaOCl. In addition, chlorhe...

Direct assay of serum folate by mixing serum with a mixture of L. casei and medium without autoclaving was found to provide serum folate results similar to those by extraction of serum with heat. This procedure was found more reliable than that using the same technique with chloramphenicol and a strain of L. casei adapted to grow in this material. A portion of apparent folate activity assayed i...

A modification of the Mueller medium for tetanus toxin production is presented, on which an adapted strain produces high yields of toxin (70 to 90 flocculating units per ml) in the absence of animal protein extracts. The range of iron concentration in the medium was established within which the toxigenic activity of the culture can be made to vary, and the mathematical nature of the variation i...

Enhanced canine distemper virus (CDV) nucleoprotein RNA was applied to paraffinembedded tissues from dogs with spontaneous CDV infections. In addition to proteinase K, the tissues were autoclaved in various solutions as a pre-treatment (Trilogy, TBS S3006, H-3301, and S1700) and then compared. The in situ hybridization (ISH) intensity was assessed using integrated optical density (IOD) and tiss...

An ;aseptic addition' method is described for microbiological assay with Lactobacillis casei of folate activity in human serum. It has the following advantages over the previously reported ;standard' method. 1 The manipulations involved in the assay are halved, by deleting autoclaving of serum in buffers. 2 The use of 1 g.% ascorbate better preserves serum folates than the lower amounts of asco...