BACKGROUND Postamputation neuroma pain can prevent comfortable prosthesis wear in patients with limb amputations, and currently available treatments are not consistently effective. Targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR) is a decade-old technique that employs a series of novel nerve transfers to permit intuitive control of upper-limb prostheses. Clinical experience suggests that it may also serve a...

BACKGROUND We investigated the effect of transmyocardial laser revascularization (TMR) on myocardial function and regional blood flow in an animal model of ischemic heart disease. METHODS Chronic ischemia was induced in 11 sheep by the application of coronary stenosis on the left anterior descending (LAD) and circumflex coronary artery (LCX). Ten weeks later, in six of them, transmyocardial c...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to determine the short-term effects of transmyocardial laser revascularization (TMR) on regional left ventricular systolic and diastolic function, myocardial blood flow (MBF) and myocardial water content (MWC). BACKGROUND Clinical studies of TMR have noted a significant incidence of cardiac complications in the early postoperative period. However, the ...

There is emerging evidence that chitinases have additional functions beyond degrading environmental chitin, such as involvement in innate and acquired immune responses, tissue remodeling, fibrosis, and serving as virulence factors of bacterial pathogens. We have recently shown that both the human chitotriosidase and a chitinase from Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium hydrolyze LacNAc from ...

Mutations at the cytokinin biosynthesis locus (tmr) of Agrobacterium tumefaciens usually result in strains that induce tumors exhibiting the rooty phenotype associated with high auxin-to-cytokinin ratios. However, tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum cv Havana 425) leaf disc explants responded to tmr- mutant strain A356 by producing rapidly growing, unorganized tumors, indicating that these lines can gro...

The thematic survey and monitoring results of natural resources (TMR) provide scientific, detailed reliable data support for government management departments to grasp the overall situation, reflect society people’s lives. Therefore, product quality TMR is a major concern outcome producers users. This paper discusses evaluation model test method TMR, summarizes proposes methods improve by exami...

BACKGROUND Transmyocardial and percutaneous laser revascularization (TMR, PTMR) may reduce angina and increase exercise tolerance in otherwise untreatable angina patients, although the mechanism is unknown and the placebo effect may be significant. One other proposed mechanism is cardiac denervation leading to silent ischemia. METHODS Electrocardiograms obtained during symptom-limited exercis...

Recent progress in determination of human draft sequences [6, 8] and tertiary structure of seventransmembrane-helix receptors (7-TMR) accelerates the comprehensive sequence analysis of 7-TMR in whole human genome. Despite the enormous amount of available data on genome sequences [6, 8], the overviewed families of 7-TMR have not yet been well characterized. Our SEVENS database intends to cover a...

The effects of three different feeding systems on beef cattle production performance, rumen fermentation, and rumen digesta particle structure were investigated by using 18 Limousin (steers) with a similar body weight (575±10 kg) in a 80-d experiment. The animals were equally and randomly divided into three treatment groups, namely, total mixed ration group (cattle fed TMR), SI1 group (cattle f...

AIM The study was conducted to evaluate the levels of exogenous fibrolytic enzymes (EFE) on in vitro digestibilities of dry matter (DM) and organic matter (OM), total gas production (TGP), metabolizable energy (ME) content, and microbial biomass production (MBP). MATERIALS AND METHODS The total mixed ration (TMR) was prepared using 30% each of sorghum hay and groundnut straw and 40% compound ...