Continuous open loop vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is an option for the treatment of refractory epilepsy. Animal studies have shown that VNS is able to shorten or even abolish ongoing seizures and that stimulation prior to a pending seizure may prevent the seizure from occurring. VNS therapy might therefore be improved by close loop stimulation, but seizures must then be predicted or detected. ...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this article was to review the current available clinical techniques and to recommend the most appropriate imaging modalities for the identification of mandibular vital structures when planning for oral implants. MATERIAL AND METHODS The literature was selected through a search of PubMed, Embase and Cochrane electronic databases. The keywords used for search were man...

Background: Pairwise stochastic context-free grammars (Pair SCFGs) are powerful tools for evolutionary analysis of RNA, including simultaneous RNA sequence alignment and secondary structure prediction, but the associated algorithms are intensive in both CPU and memory usage. The same problem is faced by other RNA alignment-and-folding algorithms based on Sankoff's 1985 algorithm. It is therefor...

although lcl filters are used widely in the grid connected inverters to reduce high-orderharmonics, such a system increases system order and therefore sustainable design of closed-loopcontroller system will be complicated. recently, the single-loop control strategy has beensuggested for l or lc filter based grid-connected inverters. however, the use of single-loopcontrol directly in lcl filter-...

The authors present 280 patients operated on for thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS). In a first group of patients anatomical variants were the striking findings. The underlying factor for TOS development is therefore a well defined structural condition and its pathogenetic mechanism is known to be a nerve fibre compression. In a second group there was no specific salient finding but a postural devi...

BACKGROUND Despite the accumulated knowledge of human muscle sympathetic nerve activity (SNA) as measured by microneurography, whether muscle SNA parallels renal and cardiac SNAs remains unknown. METHOD AND RESULTS In experiment 1, muscle (microneurography, tibial nerve), renal, and cardiac SNAs were recorded in anesthetized rabbits (n=6) while arterial pressure was changed by intravenous bol...

Endocardial catheter ablation for sinus node modification may be difficult due to right phrenic nerve location and risk of injury. Various strategies displace the from target sites have been described previously, including saline infusion balloon insufflation, all within epicardial space. To describe a strategy avoid injury during endocardial using steerable catheter. N/A A 33-year-old female w...

Objective(s): To investigate the systemic and local immune status of two surgical rat models of sciatic nerve injury, a crushed sciatic nerve, and a sciatic nerve transection Materials and Methods:Twenty-four adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into three groups: sham-operation (control group), sciatic nerve crush, and sciatic nerve transaction. Sciatic nerve surgery was perfor...