INTRODUCTION rotator cuff tears (RCTs) are the most common tendon injury seen in orthopedic patients. Muscle atrophy and fatty infiltration of the muscle are crucial factors that dictate the outcome following rotator cuff surgery. Though less studied in humans, rotator cuff muscle fibrosis has been seen in animal models as well and may influence outcomes as well. The purpose of this study was t...

Plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) play important roles in initiating and regulating immune responses. pDC infiltration has been documented in multiple pathological lesions including infections, tumors, and autoimmune diseases, and the severity of pDC infiltration correlates with disease progression. However, a specific antibody for identifying pDCs by immunohistochemical staining on paraffin-...

We quantify relations between rates of in situ denitrification and saturated infiltration through shallow, sandy soils during managed groundwater recharge. We used thermal methods to determine time series of point-specific flow rates, and chemical and isotopic methods to assess denitrification progress. Zero order denitrification rates between 3 and 300 μmol L(-1) d(-1) were measured during inf...

In 43 patients with Graves' disease, 5 patients with painless thyroiditis and 30 patients with Hashimoto-thyroiditis ultrasonographical observations and histological examinations by needle biopsy of the thyroid were carried out simultaneously. In all cases the level of echo-amplitude was well correlated with the rate of lymphocytic infiltrations and fibrosis. In cases which exhibited marked lym...

BACKGROUND Bacterial peritonitis is associated with systemic complications such as pneumonia. OBJECTIVE To determine in an experimental model of peritonitis whether the pH of peritoneal fluid infection influences the influx of neutrophils into the lung, and whether treatment outcome would be similar in peritonitis with liquid at any pH. MATERIALS AND METHODS We studied 48 mice with peritoni...

*R. D. Lentz and D.L. Bjorneberg, USDA-ARS, Northwest Irrigation and Soils Research Lab., 3793 N. 3600 E., Kimberly, ID 83341 USA. *Corresponding author: [email protected] ABSTRACT For surface irrigation, the rate and spatial characteristics of infiltration processes influence crop productivity, water use efficiency, and erosion potential of stream flows. A change in infiltration rate a...

Commercially available equipment for automatic gas-sampling is both expensive and bulky. Air infiltration into refrigerated areas should ideally be measured with low-cost, portable, automatic gas-samplers, capable ofoperating in a wide range of ambient temperatures. This paper describes such a sampler. Although the need for portability limits the size ofthe equipment and therefore the volume of...

with estimates increasing as much as a factor of 20 when the scale of measurement increased from 0.1 to 2 m (e.g., Estimates of saturated and unsaturated water flow in soil are imporGarbesi et al., 1996; Tidwell and Wilson, 1999). tant for predictions of infiltration, runoff, and solute transport. PreviMeasurement bias related to sample size has someous research indicates that ponded infiltrati...

Background Currently, it remains unclear regarding the association between tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) and efficacy of postoperative radiotherapy in primary tumors. Here we attempted to investigate effect TILs depending on presence postmastectomy (PMRT) prognosis pT1-2N1M0 breast cancer. Methods The clinical data cancer patients undergoing mastectomy axillary lymph node dissection wer...