The cholecystokinin cholescintigraphic findings of fundal adenomyomatosis in a 29-yr-old male with severe post-prandial pain are presented. Planar cholescintigraphy demonstrated a trilobed gallbladder contour. Following the administration of 0.02 micrograms/kg of cholecystokinin at maximal gallbladder filling, fundal dyskinesia was observed. Regional gallbladder ejection fractions were: whole g...

abstract   background: irregular working hours, including night work and shift work, have been found to be associated with alteration in various levels of biochemical factors. and some studies have showed association between shift work and blood biochemical disturbances in blood. in this epidemiological study we investigated, whether regular schedule of working hours can minimize the associated...

We recorded the activity of 75 proximal-arm-related cells in caudal primary motor cortex (MI) while a monkey generated either isometric forces or limb movements against an inertial load. The forces and movements were in eight directions in a horizontal plane. The isometric force generated at the hand increased monotonically in the direction of the target force level. The force exerted against t...

Chronic exposure to ethanol increases transcription of the molecular chaperone Hsc70 in NG108-15 neuroblastoma X glioma cells. This and other ethanol-induced changes in gene expression may contribute to central nervous system tolerance and dependence in alcoholics. Here, we characterized sequences in the hsc70 promoter that are required for ethanol-induced transcriptional regulation. Deletion a...

cAMP-dependent protein kinase induction of PPARgamma coactivator-1alpha (PGC-1alpha) and uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1) expression is an essential step in the commitment of preadipocytes to the brown adipose tissue (BAT) lineage. We studied the molecular mechanisms responsible for differential expression of PGC-1alpha in HIB1B (BAT) and 3T3-L1 white adipose tissue (WAT) precursor cell lines. In HI...

Tsika, Richard W., John McCarthy, Natalia Karasseva, Yangsi Ou, and Gretchen L. Tsika. Divergence in species and regulatory role of -myosin heavy chain proximal promoter muscle-CAT elements. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 283: C1761–C1775, 2002. First published August 22, 2002; 10.1152/ajpcell.00278.2002.—We examined the functional role of distinct muscle-CAT (MCAT) elements during nonweight-bearing...

One of the locations of renal artery atherosclerosis is at the orifice of the renal artery, therefore thestructure of this orifice was assessed in 6 normal, adult male dogs by light microscopy (LM) andtransmission electron microscopy (TEM). For the LM study, processed tissues were embedded in paraffinand sectioned serially into 6-μm thickness. Sections were stained with orcein. For the TEM stud...

Background: Candida albicans (C. albicans) may have cariogenic potential but its role in caries etiology has not been established. The aim of this study was to determine C. albicans in supragingival dental plaque and infected dentine of cervical and proximal in early childhood caries (ECC). Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out on 6o children aged 2-5 years, which were divided int...

Structural properties, energies behavior and NBO analysis was performed for1-5 prototrophic shift endinelboran where substitutions like H, CH3 and CF3 that were placed on Benzene were investigated by usingDFT-B3LYP/6-311+G** level of theory. The Results show that, -BH2 shift doesn’t take place and a kind of[1,3] shift for borotrophic occured. In prototrophic shift, however, [1,5] transition eas...

 Fracture of the proximal humerus associated with vascular injury has rarely been reported in children, and only two cases have been reported in the literature. In adults this combination has been reported more frequently. We present the case of a 14 year old boy with proximal humeral epiphyseal separation and axillary artery injury.