Patients with chronic vestibular dysfunction often experience visually-induced aggravation of dizzy symptoms (visual vertigo; VV). The Situational Characteristics Questionnaire (SCQ), Computerized Dynamic Posturography or Rod and Frame Test (RFT) are used to assess VV symptoms. This study evaluates whether correlations exist between these three tests, their ability to identify patients with VV ...

The present study was carried out to investigate the association of C/T single nucleotide polymorphism(SNP)in exon 5 of stearoyl-CoA desaturase 1 (SCD1) gene and A/C SNP in the 3' untranslated region of oxidized low density lipoprotein receptor 1 (OLR1)gene with milk production traits in Iranian Holstein dairy Cattle. The blood samples of 153 (for OLR1) and 308 (for SCD1) dairy cattle from thre...

The ultrastructure of capillaries in skeletal muscle was morphometrically assessed in vastus lateralis muscle (VL) biopsies taken before and after exercise from 22 participants of two training studies. In study 1 (8 wk of ergometer training), light microscopy revealed capillary-fiber (C/F) ratio (+27%) and capillary density (+16%) to be higher (P ≤ 0.05) in postexercise biopsies than in preexer...

BACKGROUND The aim of this retrospective study is to investigate the therapeutic benefits and the bleeding risks of venovenous extracorporeal life support (VV-ECLS) when used for adult posttraumatic respiratory distress syndrome (posttraumatic ARDS). MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty adult trauma patients (median age: 38 years, median injury severity score: 35) treated with VV-ECLS in a level I tr...

A Introduction or inclusio (v. 1a): “Bless the Lord, O my soul” B Day One (vv. 1b– 2a): praise and theophany; “Y , my God” C Day Two (vv. 2b– 4): emphasis upon the wind, spirit, or breath (Heb. rûaḥ, two times) D Day Three (vv. 5– 18): emphasis upon the deep, sea waters, and the springs E Day Four (vv. 19– 24): moon, sun, and climactic exultation90 D’ Day Five (vv. 25, 26): emphasis upon the se...

AIMS It has been shown that optimizing atrioventricular (AV) and interventricular (VV) delay improves cardiac performance in patients with biventricular pacemakers. However, there is no standard method for optimization available yet. The aim of this study was to compare echocardiographic parameters-displacement imaging, A wave duration, and aortic velocity time integral (VTI)-and acoustic cardi...

INTRODUCTION The EOS stereoradiography system has shown to provide reliable varus/valgus (VV) measurements of the lower limb in 2D (VV2D) and 3D (VV3D) after total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Validity of these measurements has not been investigated yet, therefore the purpose of this study was to determine validity of EOS VV2D and VV3D. METHODS EOS images were made of a lower limb phantom contain...

INTRODUCTION Metabolic syndrome (MS) comprises several metabolic disorders that are risk factors for cardiovascular disease and has its source connected to the accumulation of visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and development of insulin resistance. Despite studies showing beneficial results of exercise on several risk factors for cardiovascular disease, studies evaluating the effects of different i...

To investigate roles of IL-23 in viral infection, we have engineered recombinant vaccinia virus (VV) expressing IL-12 (VV-IL-12) and expressing IL-23 (VV-IL-23). We found VV-IL-23 was less virulent in BALB/c mice than wild-type VV (VV-WT), indicating that IL-23 enhances resistance to VV. VV-specific CTL activity in VV-IL-23-infected mice was slightly higher than activity in VV-WT-inoculated mic...