We analyzed blood flow pattern in the interatrial communication in 24 patients with complete transposition of the great arteries (TGA). Eight had TGA with atrial shunt (group 1), nine had TGA with patent ductus arteriosus or ventricular septal defect (group 2), and seven had pulmonary arterial banding and Blalock-Taussig shunt (group 3). The flow pattern was determined at the site of atrial sep...

23 The present report investigated the involvement of primate nigro24 thalamo-cortical projections in discrimination of visual signals with behavioral 25 meaning. We tested the extracellular unit activity of mediodorsal (MD) and 26 ventral anterior (VA) thalamic neurons monosynaptically receiving inhibitory 27 input from the substantia nigra pars reticulata (SNr) and projecting to the 28 fronta...

UNLABELLED Gram-negative bacteria play an essential role in endodontic infections because they have virulence factors such as endotoxin. Due to its potential cytotoxic activity, special attention has been given to the removal/neutralization of this endotoxin in the root canal system. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of the apical enlargement size (AES) by using ro...

To assess the usefulness of continuous wave Doppler echocardiography in the evaluation of aortic insufficiency, the aortic regurgitant flow velocity pattern obtained with continuous wave Doppler examination was compared with the results of aortography and conventional pulsed Doppler techniques in 25 individuals with aortic insufficiency. The diastolic deceleration slope as measured from the con...

The papers [23], [24], [4], [5], [2], [20], [21], [9], [1], [22], [13], [15], [16], [12], [10], [11], [17], [14], [25], [3], [7], [6], [19], and [8] provide the notation and terminology for this paper. For simplicity, we adopt the following convention: X denotes a complex Banach algebra, w, z, z1, z2 denote elements of X, k, l, m, n denote natural numbers, s1, s2, s3, s, s ′ denote sequences of...

Let S2 be the 2-dimensional unit sphere and let Jα denote the nonlinear functional on the Sobolev space H1,2(S2) defined by Jα(u) = α 4 ∫