Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is the most common form of different types of sleep-related breathing disorders. It is characterized by repetitive cessations of respiratory flow during sleep, which occurs due to a collapse of the upper respiratory airway. OSA is majorly undiagnosed due to the inconvenient Polysomnography (PSG) testing procedure at sleep labs. This paper introduces an automated ap...

background and aims. lichen planus (lp) is a relatively common, chronic dermato-mucosal disease that often affects the oral mucosa. among bacterial infections affecting lp, helicobacter pylori has recently been proposed as an important etiologic factor. the present study was designed to evaluate the association of lp and h. pylori infection. materials and methods. this study included 30 patient...

Biosynthesis of the immunoglobulin (Ig) receptor components and their assembly were examined in cell lines representative of early stages in human B lineage development. In pro-B cells, the nascent surrogate light chain proteins form a complex that transiently associates in the endoplasmic reticulum with a spectrum of unidentified proteins (40, 60, and 98 kD) and Bip, a heat shock protein famil...

Surrogate data methods have been widely applied to produce synthetic data, while maintaining the same statistical properties as the original. By using such methods, one can analyze certain properties of time series. In this context, Theiler’s surrogate data methods are the most commonly considered approaches. These are based on the Fourier transform, limiting them to be applied only on stationa...

BACKGROUND Respiration-correlated CT (4D CT) is the basis of radiotherapy treatment planning of thoracic and abdominal tumors. Current clinical 4D CT images suffer, however, from artifacts due to unfulfilled assumptions concerning breathing pattern regularity. We propose and evaluate modifications to existing low-pitch spiral 4D CT reconstruction protocols to counteract respective artifacts. ...

extract: most people have breathing blessing but some patients are who have struggling terribly for this breathing. this article is the first part of three section's series that tells you how diagnose and treat the breathing disorder of these patients. the situation which known to all is that you inter to patient's room and see that he/she is breathing tribally. such situation for you...

Microcomputed tomography (Micro-CT) has the potential to noninvasively image the structure of organs in rodent models with high spatial resolution and relatively short image acquisition times. However, motion artifacts associated with the normal respiratory motion of the animal may arise when imaging the abdomen or thorax. To reduce these artifacts and the accompanying loss of spatial resolutio...

This paper shows that conduction velocity (CV) and motor unit action potential (MUAPs) synchronization affects the results of Surrogate Analysis (SA) surface electromyography (sEMG) signal. It will be verified if SA can extract information from sEMG Also, it is first time interpreted a physiological point-of-view. To illustrate relationships between CV, SA, simple dipole-based model for signal ...