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In this issue of Circulation, Baumgartner et al 1 report a significant advance in angiogenic gene therapy. The authors induced collateral neovascularization in 10 critically ischemic limbs in 9 patients by the intramuscular gene transfer of naked plasmid DNA encoding the 165-amino-acid isoform of the human angiogenic protein, vascular endothelial growth factor (phVEGF165). The plasmid DNA was i...

syncope5 and suppuration in the groin after extra-vascular injection.6 The great danger, however, is that it is radioactive : ill results from this have been reported.9 Sodium iodide is likely to produce severe reactions and much pain, but it is still used for the aorta.10, 11 Organic iodides are the substances now usually employed. The most favoured is diodone (diodrast, Pyelosil). It is prepa...

S OF CURRENT LITERATURE 66 DIGEST OF MAJOR ACTIVITIES OF THE ARTIFICIAL LIMB PROGRAM 68 P R O S T H E T I C S R E S E A R C H B O A R D NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES—NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 2101 Constitution Ave. Washington 25, D. C. Artificial Limbs is a publication of the Prosthetics Research Board, National Academy of Sciences—National Research Council, issued twice a year, in the spring an...

Landmarking is a novel approach to describing tasks in meta-learning. Previous approaches to meta-learning mostly considered only statistics-inspired measures of the data as a source for the de nition of metaattributes. Contrary to such approaches, landmarking tries to determine the location of a speci c learning problem in the space of all learning problems by directly measuring the performanc...

We propose a technique for the segmentation of images using both colour and texture information. This information is in the form of lowpass colour responses and sixteen Gabor texture lter responses. A self-organising feature map is trained to label any set of responses into appropriate categories. We quantify the success of the approach and assess the importance of colour and texture in the seg...

It has become widely accepted that the osmolality gradient along the corticomedullary axis of the mammalian outer medulla is generated and sustained by a process of countercurrent multiplication: active NaCl absorption from thick ascending limbs is coupled with the counterflow configuration of the descending and ascending limbs of the loops of Henle to generate an axial osmolality gradient alon...

background: tramadol overdose is relatively common in iran. a series of tramadol poisoned patients with paresthesia and decreased muscle strength are described. methods: in this prospective cross-sectional study, all referred cases to mashhad medical toxicology center with suspected tramadol poisoning between 1st july 2010 and 1st september 2012 were included. patients with mixed overdose, hist...

objective(s) the objective of this study was to document and explain bilateral differences in the q angle. materials and methods two hundred limbs of healthy adult indian volunteers were studied. the q angle was measured using a goniometric method with the subjects supine, quadriceps relaxed and lower limbs in neutral rotation. the relative lateral placement of the tibial tuberosity with respec...