We adopt the chronic constriction injury (CCI) model to induce neuropathic pain to Spragrue-Dawley (SD) rats by ligating the right sciatic nerve of using four 4-0 chromic gut sutures and subsequently applying 2 and 15 Hz electroacupuncture (EA), respectively, to the right (ipsilateral) Zusanli (St-36) and Shangjuxu (St-37) acupoints. The results of this study are summarized as follows: (1) the ...

our previous study showed that coriandrum sativum (cs) has antinociceptive effects, but the mechanisms that mediate this effect are not clear. the present study was designed to test the role of opiate system in the antinociceptive effects of cs on acute and chronic pain in mice using hot plate (hp), tail flick (tf) and formalin (ft) tests and also to compare its effect with dexamethasone (dex) ...

welding is one of the most important assembling methods which are widely applied in different applications. in service conditions, some of the weld joints which meet defects must be repaired. the residual stresses impress the operation and efficiency of the repair weldment. in this study, the temperature and the residual stress fields were investigated by both the finite element simulation and ...

OBJECTIVES Study was conducted to assess whether temporal variation exists in airborne microbial concentrations of a hospital ward (west-Chennai, India) using active and passive methods, and characterise the microorganisms. METHODS Air samples (duplicates) were collected simultaneously using exposed-plate, impingement (BioSampler) and filtration (personal sampling filter cassette loaded with ...

This paper briefly reviews bluff body aerodynamics and focuses mainly on the use of short and thin splitter plates to interfere with the vortex wakes and suppress vortex-induced forces (VIF). The present investigation primarily examines the suppression of unsteady, two-dimensional wake instabilities over a low Reynolds number range of less than 250. A circular cylinder is used as the bluff body...

1 Department of Epidemiology & Bio-statistics, Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute, Calcutta, India. 2 Health Services Research, St. Louis University School of Public Health, St. Louis, MO 63108 Address for Correspondence: Dr. Urmi Sen, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute 37, S.P. Mukherjee Road, Calcutta 700026, Fax: 91-33-475 7606, e-mail: u...

Ax, A = amplitude of stroke amplitude in x direction, m, and orientation angle, deg CL, CL = lift coefficient and its average over flapping cycles CD, CD = drag coefficient and its average over flapping cycles CPW, CPW = input power coefficient and its average over flapping cycles c, h = chord and thickness of the plate, m; c is chosen as characteristic length Re = Uc v , Reynolds number, v is ...