Tracking the moveable feast: sonomicrometry and gastrointestinal motility.

A moveable feast.

In vivo and in vitro effects of Salsola collina on gastrointestinal motility in rats

Objective(s): Salsola collina is widely distributed along the Bohai coast and consumed as an edible plant by native residents. We have found surprisingly that S. collina extracts promoted gastrointestinal motility in mice previously. In the present study, effects of S. collina on gastrointestinal motility in rats and its underlying mechanism were explored.<st...

Scott Fitzgerald: famous writer, alcoholism and probable epilepsy.

Scott Fitzgerald, a world-renowned American writer, suffered from various health problems, particularly alcohol dependence, and died suddenly at the age of 44. According to descriptions in A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway, Fitzgerald had episodes resembling complex partial seizures, raising the possibility of temporal lobe epilepsy.

An automated in vitro model for the evaluation of ultrasound modalities measuring myocardial deformation

BACKGROUND Echocardiography is the method of choice when one wishes to examine myocardial function. Qualitative assessment of the 2D grey scale images obtained is subjective, and objective methods are required. Speckle Tracking Ultrasound is an emerging technology, offering an objective mean of quantifying left ventricular wall motion. However, before a new ultrasound technology can be adopted ...

Endocardial surface area tracking for assessment of regional LV wall deformation with 3D speckle tracking imaging.

OBJECTIVES The aim of this experimental study was to validate area tracking by 3-dimensional (3D) speckle tracking imaging (STI) as a method to measure changes in regional left ventricular (LV) endocardial surface area with sonomicrometry and to assess the usefulness as a wall motion evaluation method compared with 1-dimensional strain parameters. BACKGROUND A 3D-STI allows for tracking a reg...