BACKGROUND Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries can have negative consequences on the careers of National Football League (NFL) players, however no study has ever analyzed the financial impact of these injuries in this population. PURPOSE To quantify the impact of ACL injuries on salary and career length in NFL athletes. STUDY DESIGN Cohort study; Level of evidence, 3. METHODS Any pl...

BACKGROUND The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed modifying the Nutrition Facts Label (NFL) on food packages to increase consumer attention to this resource and to promote healthier dietary choices. AIMS The present study sought to determine whether the proposed NFL changes will affect consumer attention to the NFL or purchase intentions. METHOD This study compared purchas...

As a new pattern classification method, Nearest Feature Line (NFL) provides an effective way to tackle the sort of pattern recognition problems where only limited data are available for training. In this paper, we explore the use of NFL for speaker identification in terms of limited data and examine how the NFL performs in such a vexing problem of various mismatches between training and test. I...

OBJECTIVE Neurofilament light (NfL) protein in blood plasma has been proposed as a prognostic biomarker of neurodegeneration in a number of conditions, including Huntington disease (HD). This study investigates the regional distribution of NfL-associated neural pathology in HD gene expansion carriers. METHODS We examined associations between NfL measured in plasma and regionally specific atro...

BACKGROUND Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) neurofilament light chain protein (NFL) is a sensitive marker of neuronal injury in a variety of neurodegenerative conditions, including the CNS dysfunction injury that is common in untreated HIV infection. However, an important limitation is the requirement for lumbar puncture. For this reason, a sensitive and reliable blood biomarker of CNS injury would re...

. to investigate the effect of anisometropic and strabismic amblyopia on the nerve fiber layer thickness. this cross-sectional study was done on 54 amblyopic subjects, equally in both strabismic and anisometropic groups. the thickness otonerve fiber layer measured in superior, inferior, nasal, temporal quadrants and as a whole in both eyes of both groups. the means of thickness were compared in...

purpose: to evaluate the correlation between retinal nerve fiber layer (nfl) thickness and visual field parameters in patients with optic atrophy. methods: this study was performed on 35 eyes of 28 patients with optic atrophy. nfl thickness was measured by optic coherence tomography (oct) and visual field analysis was performed by humphrey perimetry. the correlation between nfl thickness and vi...

Mutations in NEFL encoding the light neurofilament subunit (NFL) cause Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2E (CMT2E), which affects both motor and sensory neurons. We expressed the disease-causing mutants NFL and NFL in motor neurons of dissociated spinal cord-dorsal root ganglia and demonstrated that they are incorporated into the preexisting neurofilament network but eventually disrupt neurofil...

Flowering in plants is a dynamic and synchronized process where various cues including age, day length, temperature and endogenous hormones fine-tune the timing of flowering for reproductive success. Arabidopsis thaliana is a facultative long day (LD) plant where LD photoperiod promotes flowering. Arabidopsis still flowers under short-day (SD) conditions, albeit much later than in LD conditions...

(1) Background: Amblyopia is an ocular condition leading to structural and functional changes. The relationship between these changes complex remains poorly understood. (2) Methods: Participants included 31 children aged 5 9 years with strabismic (n = 9), anisometropic 16) mixed 6) unilateral amblyopia, 14 age-matched non-amblyopic children. 95% 63% Bivariate Contour Ellipse Area (BCEA), axial ...