Male adult Sprague-Dawley rats were subjected to unilateral crush injury, and expression of LPL protein and mRNA were assessed as a function of time post-crush. LPL activity increased in the distal portion of the injured nerve by Day 4 post-crush, after which LPL activity gradually returned to normal levels. Conversely, quantification of LPL mRNA by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reacti...

OBJECTIVES We investigated the effects of treadmill training (10 weeks) on hindlimb motor function and nerve morphometric parameters in diabetic rats submitted to sciatic nerve crush. MATERIALS AND METHOD Wistar rats (n = 64) were divided into the following groups: non-diabetic; trained non-diabetic; non-diabetic with sciatic nerve crush; trained non-diabetic with sciatic nerve crush; diabeti...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the factors affecting the occurrence and severity of crush syndrome (CS) after crush injury (CI) in pediatric trauma victims in the Wenchuan earthquake. METHODS Medical records of 98 patients who were transferred to our hospital were retrospectively reviewed. The risk factors, such as age, gender, time being besieged, type of injury, wound infection, hemodialysis, etc., w...

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Extraarticular metacarpal fractures are common during childhood, and osseous healing is the rule. We have treated two patients with delayed and nonunion of three metacarpal shafts. One patient sustained closed second and third metacarpal fractures, and the other sustained an open second metacarpal fracture. Both injuries were crush-type of significant force. Although initial treatment seemed ap...

Crush syndrome results in a characteristic syndrome of rhabdomyolysis with myoglobinuric acute renal failure. The most commonly described crush injury is that which affects victims of natural disasters such as earthquakes. Here, we report a rare case of crush syndrome that was induced by the kneeling seiza position.

The main objective of this research is to improvethe design and performance of the polyurethane foam-filled thin-walled aluminum grooved circular tubes using multi-response optimization (MRO) technique. The tubes are shaped with the inner and the outer circular grooves at different positions along the axis. For this aim, several numerical simulations using ABAQUS finite element explicit code ar...