Objective: To evaluate the effects of maternal corticosteroids administration on Non stress test and fetal biophysical activities in pregnancies with normal fetoplacental vascular resistance. Study Design: Prospective study. Patients and Methods: Included singleton pregnancies at risk of preterm labour between 28 weeks and 34 weeks gestation, preterm birth was anticipated on the basis of: Histo...

Mammals can reliably predict the time of occurrence of an expected event after a predictive stimulus. Climbing activity is a prominent profile of neural activity observed in prefrontal cortex and other brain areas that is related to the anticipation of forthcoming events. Climbing activity might span intervals from hundreds of milliseconds to tens of seconds and has a number of properties that ...

background: recent evidences have supported migraine headache and neurally mediated syncope as the especial types of endotheliopathies. to determine endothelial function in patients with migraine headache or those with neurally mediated syncope,the present study was conducted. materials and methods: this cross-sectional study was performed on 93 consecutive patients aged 5-20 years in four grou...

KEY POINTS Vestibular type I and type II hair cells and their afferent fibres send information to the brain regarding the position and movement of the head. The characteristic feature of type I hair cells is the expression of a low-voltage-activated outward rectifying K+ current, IK,L , whose biophysical properties and molecular identity are still largely unknown. In vitro, the afferent nerve c...

In a previous paper this author demonstrated how a macroecological plant model could be used to parameterize a backscatter model with the aim of predicting trends in backscatter and height as a function of vegetation biomass. The macroecological model used is of interest because it gives a simple description of the plant structure but remains within realistic biophysical limits. The aim of this...