purpose this study was performed to introduce and evaluate the potential of kinematic magnetic resonance imaging (kmri) using a high-field open-magnet magnetic resonance (mr) system. methods we attempted to perform kmri of healthy volunteers’ lumbar spine and knee in the lateral position and ankle in the supine position utilizing the superconducting, horizontally opened, 1.2 t mr system (oasis,...

introduction: this study was designed to investigate the effects of music in wistar rats after sub-chronic treatment of simvastatin. the rats were orally administered with either simvastatin or saline (controls). after 4 weeks of drug treatment, the rats were selected for behavioral studies. the rats were exposed to music 24 hours before behavioral tests (mozart’s piano sonata, kv361, largo). r...

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introduction: anxiety is among the most common and treatable mental disorders. adrenergic and cannabinoid systems have an important role in the neurobiology of anxiety. the elevated plus-maze (epm) has broadly been used to investigate anxiolytic and anxiogenic compounds. the present study investigated the effects of intraperitoneal (ip) injection of cannabinoid cb1 receptor antagonist (am251) i...

Traumatic anterior dislocation of the hip is an extremely rare condition in children and open dislocation is even rarer. Thisisusually caused by high-energy trauma. In the current study, we present a case of an eight-year-old child suffering froman open anterior–inferior dislocation of the right hip concomitant with pelvic ring disruption and an ipsilateral open distalfemoral fracture (Salter-H...