OBJECTIVES To compare the use of an electrosurgical device with traditional cold instruments (scalpel and scissors) for midline celiotomy incision. STUDY DESIGN Prospective randomized controlled clinical trial. SAMPLE POPULATION One hundred and twenty client-owned dogs undergoing abdominal surgery. METHODS Dogs were prospectively recruited and randomized to receive electroincision or cold...

The response of isolated blood vessels to a variety of vasoactive agonists is modulated by the presence of endothelial cells. Indeed, these cells can release both dilator and constrictor substances. The major endothelium-derived relaxing factor may be nitric oxide, which activates soluble guanylate cyclase in the smooth muscle, although the endothelial cells also secrete an unidentified hyperpo...

Supernatants of rat skeletal muscle homogenates were fractionated by differential centrifugation and by zonal centrifugation in sucrose density gradients. Cytochrome oxidase was employed as an enzymatic marker for locating mitochondria. The subcellular fractions were also assayed for their ability to prevent the ATP-induced contraction of myofibrils. Both the mitochondrial and microsomal fracti...

BACKGROUNDS/AIMS Open surgery for choledochal cyst has a disadvantage of skin incision scar from operative wound, which can be a definite disadvantage especially in young female patients. This study focused on the cosmetic aspect of skin incision for resection of choledochal cyst in young female patients. METHODS During a 2-year study period, 11 adult female patients aged less than 40 years u...

The response of isolated blood vessels to a variety of vasoactive agonists is modulated by the presence of endothelial cells. Indeed, these cells can release both dilator and constrictor substances. The major endothelium-derived relaxing factor may be nitric oxide, which activates soluble guanylate cyclase in the smooth muscle, although the endothelial cells also secrete an unidentified hyperpo...

593 C o m m e n t a r y In spite of the detailed understanding reached in the last 50 years about the molecular mechanisms of muscle excitability, the localization of the Cl  conductance, G Cl , in muscle has remained highly contended. In this issue, Lueck et al. address this long-standing controversy, measuring directly the Cl  current mediated by the ClC-1 channel using the patch clamp tech...

A new family of self-organizing maps, the Winner-Relaxing Kohonen Algorithm, is introduced as a generalization of a variant given by Kohonen in 1991. The magnification behaviour is calculated analytically. For the original variant a magnification exponent of 4/7 is derived; the generalized version allows to steer the magnification in the wide range from exponent 1/2 to 1 in the one-dimensional ...

background  buccal fat pad is known as anatomic structure in between the masticatory muscles that separate these muscles from each other and surrounding bone. ease of access, through the intraoral route makes it suitable choice for obtaining adipose derived stem cells. methods  intraoral incisions for getting access to the buccal fat of pad are; retromolar incision, incision in medial of pteryg...

An optimal clear corneal incision creates a self-sealing intrastomal tunnel. Variability in incision length may pose surgical difficulties for subsequent phacoemulsification. An incision that is too long may lead to challenges including decreased instrument mobility, decreased visibility due to corneal striae, stromal hydration, and a difficult angle of approach to the cataract. These sequelae ...