The purpose of this study was to determine which suture material is the most appropriate for dermal closure of terrestrial annelids. This paper describes the tissue reactions of the earthworm, Lumbricus terrestris, to five different types of suture materials in order to determine which suture material is the most appropriate for dermal closure. Silk, monofilament nylon, polydiaxonone, polyglact...

PURPOSE The objective of this study was to compare and evaluate the inflammatory responses of three widely used suture materials in the keratinized gingiva and buccal mucosa of beagle dogs. METHODS Silk, polyglycolic acid, and nylon sutures were placed within the mandibular keratinized gingiva and maxillary buccal mucosa of four male beagle dogs. Biopsies were taken 3, 7, and 14 days after su...

Barbed suture has been associated with improved closure efficiency and safety in TKA in prior studies. We performed a multicenter randomized controlled trial to determine the efficiency and safety of this technology in TKA. We prospectively randomized 411 patients undergoing primary TKA to either barbed running (n=191) or knotted interrupted suture closure (n=203). Closure time was measured int...

The metopic suture of 24 adult skulls investigated showed recognisable varied morphological patterns. The metopic suture resembled wavy lines and was sometimes highly convoluted, especially in the superior part of the frontal bone. The mean suture length was computed as 123.1 mm (SD = 5.307) and the mean fractal dimension was 1.17 (SD = 0.076). Visual inspection of the morphological character o...

Greig cephalopolysyndactyly syndrome (GCPS) is an autosomal dominant disorder with polydactyly and syndactyly of the limbs and a broad spectrum of craniofacial abnormalities. Craniosynostosis of the metopic suture (interfrontal suture in mice) is an important but rare feature associated with GCPS. GCPS is caused by mutations in the transcription factor GLI3, which regulates Hedgehog signaling. ...

The sequence of cranial suture closure among cervids is reported to be generally species-specific and highly conservative within species. On the other hand, it is known that intraspecific variation often exists to some extent in other mammalian taxa. Here we studied the cranial suture closures of Capreolus pygargus from Jeju Island and compared it with other cervid species. We found that the ti...

Abstract Aim Majority of clinical data is categorized into unstructured data, including operative notes containing unexplored key details yet to be incorporated a surgical risk model. We sought determine whether Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods could implemented systematically capture note features that can considered for patient-specific modeling. Methods Operative describing abdomina...

OBJECTIVE To test whether anti-CD3/anti-CD28 (alphaCD3/alphaCD28) monoclonal antibodies could be coated on surgical suture and used to enhance T-cell immune function in patients with advanced-stage head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). DESIGN AlphaCD3/alphaCD28 monoclonal antibodies at varying concentrations and ratios were coated on surgical sutures and tested on peripheral blood mo...