Background Cervical involvement in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is particularly disabling and has been poorly studied yet. Actual radiologic scoring design to assess disease progression does not provide a comprehensive picture of the cervical AS. [1] Association with clinical features such as psoriasis are discussed. Objectives We aimed radiographic AS clinico-biological parameters associated th...

buckwheat rutin has been found to be able to inhibit angiotensin ii (angii) - induced hypertrophy in cultured neonatal rat cardiomyocytes, but the mechanism remains uncertain. in this study, myocardial hypertrophy model was made by adding angii to the medium of cardiac myocytes of neonatal rats, meanwhile, different concentrations of buckwheat rutin were applied to observe their effects. intrac...

adenotonsillar hypertrophy and obstructive sleep disordered breathing can lead to attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (adhd). the purpose of this study was to evaluate effect of adenotonsillectomy on improvement of adhd symptoms in a quasi-experimental (before and after) study. the efficacy of adenotonsillectomy on improvement of adhd symptoms of 35 children aged 5-12 years with adenotonsi...

background since adenoids may act as a reservoir for bacteria, they can cause ear infection, recurrent otitis and recurrent adenotonsillitis. therefore, adenotonsillectomy is an efficient method for reducing the number and severity of subsequent infections. objectives this study aimed to determine the chlamydophila pneumonia infection by serological tests and performing pcr in the adenoid tissu...

A simple noncontact device was implemented for measuring the position of the distal residual limb relative to the prosthetic socket during ambulation. The device was a small and lightweight photoelectric sensor positioned within a frame mounted immediately beneath the socket. Calibration tests showed that the sensor had a displacement range of 60.0 mm. The root-mean-square error for all sources...

Mouthparts of fluid-feeding insects have unique material properties with no human-engineered analogue: the feeding devices acquire sticky and viscous liquids while remaining clean. We discovered that the external surface of the butterfly proboscis has a sharp boundary separating a hydrophilic drinking region and a hydrophobic non-drinking region. The structural arrangement of the proboscis prov...

Complicated anatomical configuration of the temporomandibular joint was the reason for developing standardized radiographic techniques which would provide accurate anatomical images. Tomography provides excellent bony details but no in formation of the soft tissue component of the joint. This technique is useful in demonstrating suspected hypoplasia, hypertrophy or malformation of the condyles,...