OBJECTIVE To evaluate uterine contractility, oxytocin receptor (OTR) expression in myometrial smooth muscle cells (MSMCs) derived from uterine tissues from women with and without adenomyosis correlate OTR expression with uterine contractility and dysmenorrhea severity, and see whether trichostatin A (TSA) and andrographolide inhibit OTR expression. DESIGN Laboratory study using human tissues....

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory recorded more than 250 billion cosmic-ray induced muon events between May 2009 and May 2014. We use this data set to study the anisotropy in the arrival direction distribution of cosmic rays in the TeV to PeV energy range. The anisotropy features large regions of relative excess and deficit with amplitude on the order of 10−3. A decomposition of the arrival dire...

We reported previously that patients with cerebellar deficits were unable to scale the magnitude of their early automatic postural responses to the predicted amplitudes of surface translations based on central set from prior experience. The present study investigated whether this deficit in set-dependent amplitude scaling was based predominantly on the cerebellar patient's disability (i) to pre...

The amplitude of El Ni~ no–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) displays pronounced interdecadal modulations in observations. The mechanisms for the amplitude modulation are investigated using a 2000-yr preindustrial control integration from the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Climate Model, version 2.1 (GFDL CM2.1). ENSO amplitude modulation is highly correlated with the second empirical orthogon...

Phuong Hoai Le* Thien Xuan Dinh** Atsushi Mitani*** and Shinichi Hirai* * Department of Robotics, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga,Japan E-mail:[email protected] **Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan *** Department of Design, Sapporo City University, Sapporo, Japan In this work, we study experimentally the effect of the non-dimensio...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of whole-body vibration (WBV) training in individuals after stroke. DESIGN A double-blind randomized controlled study with assessments pre- and posttraining. SETTING A university hospital rehabilitation department. PARTICIPANTS Participants (N=31; mean age ± SD, 62±7 y; 6-101 mo poststroke) were randomized to an intervention group or a control group. IN...