Objectives: Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) are common in all medical settings. These conditions remain controversial, aetiology remains poorly understood and treatments have been slow to develop. This study aimed to examine the beliefs held by psychologists and other professionals about MUS, which may impact upon clinical practice. Design: 375 clinical psychology trainees from 23 UK train...

OBJECTIVE To measure the impact of a model-based teaching program on resident comfort and skill with retropubic midurethral sling (MUS). STUDY DESIGN Residents were assessed before and after a retropubic MUS teaching session, which included a brief lecture and three interactive teaching stations (cadaver pelvis, retropubic MUS pelvic model, cystoscopy model). Self-assessment measures included...

Background: Electromyographic (EMG) signal decomposition is the process by which an EMG signal is decomposed into its constituent motor unit potential trains (MUPTs). A major step in EMG decomposition is feature extraction in which each detected motor unit potential (MUP) is represented by a feature vector. As with any other pattern recognition system, feature extraction has a significant impac...

Are scientists in part to blame for the lack of stricter regulations on some of these chemicals? Hmm, scientist as villain...what a novel plot. But I guess you could blame us. If we all agreed on exactly what effects these types of chemicals cause and at what doses, perhaps stricter regulations would be in place. Scientists all see the world a little differently and emphasize different things, ...

BACKGROUND Mouse urinary allergens are an important cause of occupational asthma in animal facilities. Domestic exposure to mouse allergens is a risk factor for asthma among inner-city residents. OBJECTIVE We sought to develop a sensitive and specific assay for assessing environmental mouse allergen exposure. METHODS An ELISA for recombinant (r)Mus m 1 was developed by using rabbit polyclon...

Unfused tetanic contractions evoked by trains of stimuli at variable interpulse 32 intervals (IPIs) were recorded for 10 fast fatigable (FF), 10 fast resistant (FR) and 10 33 slow (S) motor units (MUs), and subsequently decomposed using a mathematical 34 algorithm into trains of twitch-shape responses to successive stimuli. The mean 35 stimulation frequencies were matched for each MU to evoke t...

LSH/DDM1 enzymes are required for DNA methylation in higher eukaryotes and have poorly defined roles in genome maintenance in yeast, plants, and animals. The filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa is a tractable system that encodes a single LSH/DDM1 homolog (NCU06306). We report that the Neurospora LSH/DDM1 enzyme is encoded by mutagen sensitive-30 (mus-30), a locus identified in a genetic screen...

UNLABELLED Murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) is a betaherpesvirus of the house mouse, Mus musculus domesticus. It is a common infectious agent of wild mice and a highly studied pathogen of the laboratory mouse. Betaherpesviruses are specific to their hosts, and it is not known if other Mus taxa carry MCMV or if it is restricted to M. m. domesticus. We sampled mice over a 145-km transect of Bavaria-...

Genetic relationships among lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) spawning aggregates in Lake Michigan were assessed and used to predict a stock or management unit (MU) model for the resource. We hypothesized that distinct spawning aggregates represented potential MUs and that differences at molecular markers underlie population differentiation. Genetic stock identification using 11 microsate...