The transverse tubular (t)-system of skeletal muscle couples sarcolemmal electrical excitation with contraction deep within the fibre. Exercise, pathology and the composition of the extracellular fluid (ECF) can alter t-system volume (t-volume). T-volume changes are thought to contribute to fatigue, rhabdomyolysis and disruption of excitation-contraction coupling. However, mechanisms that under...

Enterocutaneous fistula (ECF) is one of the most challenging abdominal complications, for surgeons and other healthcare members, which involves significant morbidity and potentially mortality. Despite advancements in both operative and non-operative therapy, fistula-related complications are still unavoidable. Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) had been used years to treat chronic wound, to...

A prospective cohort study was conducted in five purposively-sampled agro-ecological zone (AEZ)-grazing system strata in Murang'a District, Kenya, between March 1995 and June 1996. The study strata were selected based on a preliminary characterization study to represent the widest range of risks to East Coast fever (ECF) in the District and included zero-grazing and open-grazing farms. In total...

Escherichia coli O157:H7 is an important food-borne pathogen that causes hemorrhagic colitis and the hemolytic-uremic syndrome in humans. Recently, we reported that the pO157 ecf (E. coli attaching and effacing gene-positive conserved fragments) operon is thermoregulated by an intrinsically curved DNA and contains the genes for bacterial surface-associated proteins, including a second copy of l...

Cigarette smoking is one of the leading preventable causes of death. Previous research has shown that many common smoking cessation interventions are effective with older smokers; a few interventions have been tailored to this population. To our knowledge, however, no smoking cessation research or interventions targeted at older adults have addressed the influence of cognition on successful smo...

An enterocutaneous fistula (ECF) is a potentially catastrophic postoperative complication. Although the morbidity and mortality associated with ECF have decreased over the past 50 years with modern medical and surgical care, the overall mortality is still surprisingly high, up to 39% in recent literature. It seems prudent, then, for every surgeon to have a thorough grasp of optimal treatment st...

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lease cite this article in press as: Ma eed?, Hellenic Journal of Cardiolog tp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hjc.2016 09-9666/a 2016 Hellenic Cardiologi ense (http://creativecommons.org/ The main objective of a CMR scan is to acquire specific imaging planes orientated to the heart. However, the initial axial and/or coronal images of the thorax and upper abdomen are also acquired and often lead to the ...