BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Trampoline parks, indoor recreational facilities with wall-to-wall trampolines, are increasing in number and popularity. The objective was to identify trends in emergency department visits for trampoline park injuries (TPIs) and compare TPI characteristics with home trampoline injuries (HTIs). METHODS Data on trampoline injuries from the National Electronic Injury Sur...

Trifluridine/tipiracil (FTD/TPI or TFTD, also known as TAS-102) is a combination of the antineoplastic thymidine analog, FTD, and thymidine phosphorylase inhibitor, TPI (molar ratio 1:0.5). FTD/TPI was approved in Japan, the United States, and the European Union for the treatment of unresectable advanced or recurrent colorectal cancer. We evaluated the in vitro and in vivo efficacy and mechanis...

Smooth muscle proliferation is a prominent feature of the vascular response to mechanical injury. Accordingly, modulation of proliferation has important therapeutic implications for angioplasty restenosis. We have identified a subclass of thiol protease inhibitors (TPIs) that reversibly inhibit bovine aortic smooth muscle cell (BASMC) proliferation in vitro. To define the nature of this inhibit...

The content of phosphatidylinositol phosphate (DPI) in the flight musculature of the cockroach Periplaneta americana was found to be 30 nmol g ' wet weight, that of phosphatidylinositol-bis-phosphate (TPI) 6.5 nmol g wet weight. After administration of P-orthophosphate in vivo, the specific radioactiv­ ity (S.A.) of arginine phosphate reaches a plateau after 2 hours and remains constant for the...

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and Terahertz pulsed imaging (TPI) are two powerful techniques allowing high quality cross-sectional images from within scattering media to be obtained non-destructively. In this paper, we report experimental results of using OCT and TPI for quantitatively characterizing pharmaceutical tablet coatings in the thickness range of 10—140 μm. We found that the spec...

We evaluated the effect of feeding dietary tannins from Lysiloma latisiliquum fresh forage on the saliva tannin-binding capacity of hair sheep lambs without previous exposure to tannin-rich (TR) fodder. Twenty-four hair sheep lambs (13.6±3.04 kg LW) were fed a tannin-free diet at the beginning of the experimental period (from day 10 to 13). On day 14, lambs were distributed into three groups (n...

OBJECTIVE To compare the effectiveness of extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) and trigger point injection (TPI) for the treatment of myofascial pain syndrome in the quadratus lumborum. METHODS In a retrospective study at our institute, 30 patients with myofascial pain syndrome in the quadratus lumborum were assigned to ESWT or TPI groups. We assessed ESWT and TPI treatment according to t...

A PCR assay targeting the tpi gene was developed to detect and to genotype Giardia lamblia in human feces. Our assay was specific and discriminated between G. lamblia assemblages A and B. G. lamblia cysts isolated from human feces were also analyzed with two previously described PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) assays, which are based on the detection of tpi or gdh genes. The...

of a thesis at the University of Miami. Thesis supervised by Professor Geoff Sutcliffe. No. of pages in text. (53) The TPTP (Thousands of Problems for Theorem Provers) World is a well established infrastructure for Automated Theorem Proving (ATP). In the context of the TPTP World, a command language was needed to make possible the easy manipulation of logical formulae and provide better control...

Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) and triosephosphate isomerase (TPI) are essential to glycolysis, the major route of carbohydrate breakdown in eukaryotes. In animals and other heterotrophic eukaryotes, both enzymes are localized in the cytosol; in photosynthetic eukaryotes, GAPDH and TPI exist as isoenzymes that function in the glycolytic pathway of the cytosol and in the Calvin...