Female ticks of the family Ixodidae increase their mass up to 100-fold during the 7-10 day feeding period. We determined the material properties of the alloscutal cuticle of female Amblyomma hebraeum from the time of moulting through to full engorgement. The material properties of the cuticle were evaluated by a Kelvin-Voigt analysis of compliance determined from the stretch of loops of cuticle...

A membrane feeding assay in which the effects of the antimalarial drugs quinine and artesunate are tested on Anopheles gambiae Giles sensu stricto is described. In the present study, 87% of female A. gambiae are shown to feed on whole defibrinated bovine blood alone, whereas only 47% and 43.5% feed on saline and on saline + bovine serum albumin (BSA) solutions, respectively, suggesting that add...

BACKGROUND: Pain was the body’s way of telling us that something wrong. Breast engorgement caused pain which affected breastfeeding process. In Kamonji Health Center area, there were 47 postpartum mothers who experienced breast AIM: The purpose this study to determine difference in effectiveness giving cabbage compresses (brassica oleracea var capitata) with Aloe vera reduce swelling area METHO...

Background: Evidence shows that spinal anesthesia can alter the penile length and engorgement fact patients undergoing may experience erectile dysfunction. We hypothesized would not result in altered length; however, it lead to temporary Methods: A total of 73 referred our hospital for endoscopic urological surgeries underwent either (SA, n = 37) or general (GA, 36). measured patients’ both str...

When Bier of Kiel introduced his excellent method of treating tubercular joint affections by means of passive congestion, he indicated that the method he adopted had been formerly employed by others for the cure of ununited fracture. This mode of treatment, although apparently well known on the Continent, is somewhat novel here, and the two cases which follow may serve to illustrate the advanta...

When traditional flap techniques are not feasible, we apply flap prefabrication, which is more complicated and sophisticated but supplies large and thin flaps. There are some disadvantages to the technique that require improvement, such as venous congestion after flap transfer, which requires months for neoangiogenesis and necessitates a vascular carrier. Here, the author presents a new techniq...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The risk of hemorrhage in the context of developmental venous anomaly is considered to be very low, but it has never been evaluated by susceptibility-weighted MR imaging at 3T. The goal of the present study was to evaluate the prevalence of hypointense foci (ie, microhemorrhage or cavernous malformation) associated with DVA on phase-sensitive MR imaging, on the basis of p...