Little is known about the pathophysiological mechanisms of radicular pain. We investigated changes in synaptic transmission of substantia gelatinosa (SG) neurons after an injury to the L5 nerve root using in vivo patch-clamp recording. A total of 141 SG neurons were recorded at L4 and L5 segmental levels of the spinal cord in root constriction rats and sham-operated control rats. At L4 and L5 s...

Exercise is recognized as one of the optimal managements for chronic low back pain. Among the numerous therapeutic exercises, the approaches of traditional strengthening exercise and segmental stabilization exercise are considerably different. The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of the two different exercise approaches, on chronic low back pain through evaluating previous...

This paper reports the results of an experiment, which investigates what properties of Russian rising pitch accents are constant under changes in segmental duration brought about by modifications of speech rate. To be more specific, the experiment is aimed at examining whether the “segmental anchoring” of F0 movements is observed in this language. By segmental anchoring, I mean the phenomenon f...

OBJECTIVE We wanted to evaluate whether tumors located in a segmental border zone are predisposed to local recurrence after performing segmental transarterial chemoembolization for hepatocellular carcinoma. MATERIALS AND METHODS Seventy-three hepatocellular carcinoma nodules were retrospectively analyzed for local tumor recurrence after performing segmental transarterial chemoembolization by ...

MURATA, N., and M. P. STARR. 1974. Intrageneric clustering and divergence of Errvblia strains from plants and man in the light of deoxyribonucleic acid segmental homology. Can. J. Microbiol. 20: 1545-1565. The relationships among Erwinia species (originating from plants and man) and other enterobacteria were examined in terms of DNA-DNA segmental homology. All of the organisms studied show a "c...

The early detection of abnormal left ventricular systolic functions in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) remains a challenge. The aim of this study was to identify a novel method for the assessment of left ventricular systolic function in patients with HCM. A total of 65 patients with HCM were included in this study. The patients were divided into obstructive HCM (HOCM; 16 cases) ...

This paper attempts to discuss the relationship between segmental coarticulation and prosodic structure in Mandarin Chinese. The discussion is mainly based on the EPG measurements to a set of phrases and short sentences produced in moderate speed. Main parameters measured in this study include (1) inter-gesture timing: temporal intervals overlapped between different articulatory gestures of V1#...

BACKGROUND Diffuse coronary atherosclerosis is the substrate for plaque rupture and coronary events. Therefore, in patients with mild arteriographic coronary artery disease without significant segmental dipyridamole-induced myocardial perfusion defects, we tested the hypothesis that fluid dynamically significant diffuse coronary artery narrowing is frequently manifest as a graded, longitudinal,...

Pakistani schools in Sultanate of Oman use the whole word approach practices English language reading instructions and lack phonetics’ knowledge of. Regardless, whether is practical or not, teaching skills through these at an early age questionable. This paper will focus on observation evaluation as research tools, concentrate a phonetics phonological analysis first -grade learner case study. T...

Infants can discriminate languages that belong to different rhythmic classes at birth. The ability perform within-class discrimination emerges around the fifth month of life. cues infants use between prosodically close remain elusive. Segmental information could be a potential cue, since notice vowel mispronunciations their names, show first signs word recognition and perceptual narrowing for v...