OBJECTIVE To investigate whether bilateral deep tissue pressure hyperalgesia exists in individuals with unilateral thumb carpometacarpal osteoarthritis (CMC OA). METHODS A total of 32 patients with CMC OA (29 females and 3 males, aged 69-90 years old) and 32 healthy matched controls (29 females and 3 males, aged 70-90 years) were recruited. Pressure pain thresholds (PPTs) were bilaterally ass...

[Purpose] The aim of this study was to determine changes in pressure sensitivity and pinch strength in patients with thumb carpometacarpal (CMC) osteoarthritis (OA) in the contralateral hand after unilateral Kaltenborn mobilization on the symptomatic hand. [Subjects and Methods] Twenty-nine females with dominant hand thumb CMC osteoarthritis participated (age 70-90), and were randomized into 2 ...

Quinine increases the conductance of hemi-gap junctions in horizontal cells. We investigated the mechanisms of alkalinization and the hypothesis that quinine-induced alkalinization produced these conductance increases. We found that quinine-induced alkalinizations were not blocked by cobalt, amiloride, or DIDS. Therefore, this suggests that the alkalinization is not likely due to net proton flu...

Herlyn-Werner-Wunderlich (HWW) syndrome is an uncommon combined müllerian duct anomalies (MDAs) and mesonephric duct malformation of female urogenital tract characterized by uterus didelphys and obstructed hemi-vagina and ipsilateral renal agenesis (OHVIRA) syndrome. We present a rare and unusual case of this syndrome in a 19 year-old female who suffered from hypomenorrhoea and abdominal pain. ...

Thirty-four elements of an early modern human (EMH) were found in Tianyuan Cave, Zhoukoudian, China in 2003. Dated to 42,000-39,000 calendrical years before present by using direct accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon, the Tianyuan 1 skeleton is among the oldest directly dated EMHs in eastern Eurasia. Morphological comparison shows Tianyuan 1 to have a series of derived modern human charac...

background osteoarthritis (oa) is a multifactorial, disabling and degenerative disease that worsens with age and affects patient’s health-related quality of life (hrqol). objectives the current study aimed to assess if age and comorbidities have an influence on knee oa and knee replacement outcome before and after the surgery. methods a quasi-experimental intervention study was conducted on a s...

We examined ocular fixations during line bisection in five patients with left hemianopia, two patients with right hemianopia, nine patients with left hemi-neglect and nine normal control subjects. Compared with measures in control subjects, the median fixation, and left- and rightmost fixations were shifted contralaterally in patients with hemianopia alone and ipsilaterally in patients with hem...

juvenile idiopathic arthritis is the leading cause of hip replacement in young children. however, arthroplasty in this population is challenging with several concerns about quality of the growing bone, young age for revision surgery, and difficulties in potential several revisions. in this study we introduce a case of a 12-year old who is one of the youngest patients to undergo revision hip art...

We investigate simulation hemi-metrics between certain forms of turnbased 2 1 2 -player games played on infinite topological spaces. They have the desirable property of bounding the difference in payoffs obtained by starting from one state or another. All constructions are described as the special case of a unique one, which we call the Hutchinson hemi-metric on various spaces of continuous pre...