BACKGROUND Clinical assessment of cerebral concussion relies on the presence and duration of post concussive symptoms (PCS). Given that these PCS are subjective reports and not always specific to concussion, their usefulness remains to be validated. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the usefulness of self-reported PCS by means of cognitive tests and functional MRI (fMRI). METHOD 28 male athletes with a...

The huge extents of the softwood plantations in Australia’s national forests (about 1,020,000 hectare in 2009) require continuous silviculture operations. Consequently a reliable and continuous quantification of the plantation structure is needed to sustainably manage them. Remote sensing data is considered as a cost-effective and efficient tool for this task and several remotely sensed dataset...

The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), which is thought to play a key role in cognitive and affective regulation, has been widely reported to have a high degree of morphological inter-individual variability and asymmetry. An obvious difference is in the morphology of the paracingulate sulcus (PCS). Three types of PCS have been identified: prominent, present, and absent. In this study, we examined...

Recently, p-cresyl sulfate (PCS) has been identified as a protein-bound uremic toxin. Moreover, the serum-free concentration of PCS, which is associated with its efficacy of hemodialysis, appears to be a good predictor of survival in chronic kidney disease (CKD). We previously found that PCS interacts with indoxyl sulfate (IS), another sulfate-conjugated uremic toxin, during renal excretion via...

Environmental metal pollution is a growing health risk to flora and fauna. It is therefore important to fully elucidate metal detoxification pathways. Phytochelatin synthase (PCS), an enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of phytochelatins (PCs), plays an important role in cadmium detoxification. The PCS and PCs are however not restricted to plants, but are also present in some lower metazoans. T...

OBJECTIVES To review the evidence for the use of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) parameters in the human brain as a diagnostic tool for and predictor of post-concussion syndrome (PCS) after a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). DESIGN Systematic review. DATA SOURCES All relevant studies in AMED, Embase, MEDLINE, Ovid, PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science through 20 May, 2016. STUDY SELECTION...

How chronic pressure overload affects the Purkinje fibers of the ventricular peripheral conduction system (PCS) is not known. Here, we used a connexin (Cx)40 knockout/enhanced green fluorescent protein knockin transgenic mouse model to specifically label the PCS. We hypothesized that the subendocardially located PCS would remodel after chronic pressure overload and therefore analyzed cell size,...