There are two main problems with muscle tendon lengthening: thinness created by the technical procedure weakens the tendon, and in short tendons, lengthening may not provide enough length for the amount of joint motion required. In proximal rectus femoris lengthening, the distal ends of the reflected and straight heads are sutured together. Using this technique, the tendon will not be thinned, ...

Recombination-mediated pathways for telomere lengthening may be utilized in the absence of telomerase activity. The RecQ-like helicases, BLM and Sgs1, are implicated in recombination-mediated telomere lengthening in human cells and budding yeast, respectively. Here, we show that BLM expression rescues disrupted telomere lengthening in telomerase-negative sgs1 yeast. BLM helicase activity is req...

nowadays, due to recent developments and researches in dental science, it is possible to preserve and restore previously extracted cases such as teeth with extensive caries, fractured or less appropriate cases for crown coverage as well as teeth with external perforation caused by restorative pins. in order to restore the teeth with preservation of periodontium, we should know thoroughly physio...

Contraction-induced injury occurs when muscles are stretched while activated (lengthening contractions). The injury is initiated by mechanical damage followed by an inflammatory response. Old animals are particularly susceptible to contraction-induced injury, yet exposure to stretches without activation (passive stretches) before lengthening contractions lessens the injury. We hypothesized that...

This paper presents results from the analysis of segmental duration in French in three different speaking styles, (a) 'reading'; (b) 'news broadcast' ; (c) 'spontaneous interview'. A ten minute corpus was hand segmented and labelled using six accent categories (i) unstressed (ii) word-initial (iii) emphatic word-initial (iv) word-final (v) intonation unit final before non-terminal boundary (vi)...

This study looks at the syllable onset interval (SOI) patterning in Taiwan Mandarin spontaneous speech and its relationship to discourse and syntactic units. Monologs were elicited by asking readers to tell stories depicted in comic strips and were transcribed and segmented into Discourse Segment Units (Grosz & Sidner, 1986), clauses, and phrases. Results showed that the degree of final lengthe...

Received August 6, 2003 Abstract Achondroplasia and hypochondroplasia limb lengthening has become better accepted over last thirty years. We studied our experience on all limb lengthening for short stature over the last ten years. We reviewed patient records, X-rays and Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DEXA) scans to evaluate the changes in body proportion after limb lengthening and the compli...