BACKGROUND Brachial monomelic amyotrophy (BMMA) is known to affect the central cervical cord gray matter resulting in single upper limb atrophy and weakness. SETTINGS AND DESIGN Case series of BMMA patients who underwent somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP) studies at a tertiary referral center. AIMS We proposed to record Multichannel Somatosensory Evoked Potentials (MCSSEP) from median an...

Spinal SEP; N13; Cervical Radiculopathy Abstract Introduction: Most studies on somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) in cases of cervical radiculopathy routinely analyze scalp (cortical) responses (mixed or dermatomal SEPs), depending mainly on evaluation of N20 whose origin is the primary somatosensory cortex. It was suggested that selective study of the N13 potential, might be a useful techn...

We have engineered two soluble, covalently linked, trimeric polypeptides, N35CCG-N13 and N34CCG comprising only the internal trimeric coiled-coil of the ectodomain of HIV-1 gp41. Both trimers inhibit human immunodeficiency virus, type 1 (HIV-1) envelope (Env)-mediated cell fusion at nanomolar concentrations by targeting the exposed C-terminal region of the gp41 ectodomain in the prehairpin inte...

Reduced perception of somatosensory stimulation in patients with essential hypertension may be due to deficits in the ascending somatosensory pathway. Function in the ascending somatosensory pathway was assessed by measuring N9, N13, and N20 somatosensory-evoked potentials in 14 unmedicated essential hypertensives and 22 normotensives. N9 amplitudes were smaller and N13 amplitudes marginally sm...

P300, somatosensory evoked potential (SEP) and brainstem auditory evoked potential (BAEP) are widely used neurophysiological methods for objectively evaluating cognitive, somatosensory and brainstem auditory functions. We studied the P300, SEP and BAEP in 17 patients with chronic respiratory insufficiency (PaO2:58.2 +/- 7.0 mmHg; mean +/- SD) and 15 age-matched healthy subjects (PaO2: 84.4 +/- ...

Trigeminal evoked potentials (TEPs) and sensory deficits in eighty-three patients admitted for first surgical treatment of facial pain were retrospectively analysed. Thirty-seven patients suffered from trigeminal neuralgia (TN), 10 from symptomatic TN (sTN), and 36 from atypical facial pain (AFP). Eighteen percent of the TN patients reported sensory deficits on the pain side, but 35% had delaye...

The subcomponents of the cervical evoked response, N11, N13, N14, and the following positivity, were studied in 13 patients with full arrest of the intracerebral circulation, isoelectric EEGs and abolished cortical somatosensory evoked responses. The peak negativity (N13) and the following positive wave were present in all patients. Also N11 and N14 could be identified in most patients either a...

introduction:  the aim of the present study was to investigate the presence and the frequency of eaec as etiologic agent of diarrhea in shiraz. enteroaggregative e. coli (eaec) is increasingly recognized as a cause of often persistent diarrhoea in children and adults in both developing and developed countries, and have been identified as the cause of several outbreaks worldwide.   materials and...

We consider the problem of counting number vertices reachable from each vertex in a digraph G, which is equal to computing all out-degrees transitive closure G. The current (theoretically) fastest algorithms run quadratic time; however, Borassi has shown that this not solvable truly subquadratic time unless Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis fails [Borassi, 2016 [13]]. In paper, we present an O...

Application of protoplast transformation and single- and double-crossover mutagenesis protocols to alkaliphilic Bacillus firmus OF4811M (an auxotrophic strain of B. firmus OF4) facilitated the extension of the sequence of the previously cloned nhaC gene, which encodes an Na+/H+ antiporter, and the surrounding region. The nhaC gene is part of a likely 2-gene operon encompassing nhaC and a small ...