OBJECTIVE To examine using surface electromyography whether stair climbing with abdominal hollowing (AH) is better at facilitating local trunk muscle activity than stair climbing without AH. METHODS Twenty healthy men with no history of low back pain participated in the study. Surface electrodes were attached to the multifidus (MF), lumbar erector spinae, thoracic erector spinae, transverse a...

AIMS Admission hyperglycaemia (AH) has been associated with worse outcomes in acute myocardial infarction (AMI). In the current review, we evaluated the impact of primary angioplasty (pPCI) on mortality in AMI patients with AH. Our second aim was to evaluate if AH is a marker of baseline risk or an independent predictor of mortality. METHODS AND RESULTS A comprehensive search of four major da...

Atypical hyperplastic (AH) breast lesions are currently classified and treated as benign proliferative disorders, but their presence is associated with a four- to fivefold increased risk of developing breast cancer. Currently, it is not known if an AH lesion is a marker of increased risk, or is itself a premalignant lesion. To investigate this question, we used a series of 15 microsatellite loc...

In the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, the masses of the charged Higgs boson (H) and the CP-odd scalar (A) are related by M H+ = M A + m W at the Born level. Because the coupling of W-A-H is fixed by gauge interaction, the Born level production rate of qq̄ → W → AH depends only on one supersymmetry parameter – the mass (M A ) of A. We illustrate how to test the mass relation between A and...

Before surgery for primary aldosteronism (PA), localization is evaluated with adrenal vein sampling (AVS). A 56-year-old Japanese woman had a right adrenal mass, hypokalemia, and a high aldosterone/renin ratio. Stress tests confirmed the diagnosis of PA. Subsequently, preoperative AVS was performed and right adrenal hemorrhage (AH) occurred unexpectedly. Because hypertension persisted, laparosc...

introduction : the aim of this study was to examine and compare the apical sealing ability of ah26, ah plus and ah plus jet using a fluid filtration model. materials and methods : 70 single-rooted teeth were dissected from the cement-enamel junction. canals were prepared with protaper rotary system and manual k files and irrigated with 5.25% naocl and 17% edta. ten teeth were assigned as contro...

This paper compares the current density (J) versus applied bias (V) of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of three different ethynylthiophenol-functionalized anthracene derivatives of approximately the same thickness with linear-conjugation (AC), cross-conjugation (AQ), and broken-conjugation (AH) using liquid eutectic Ga-In (EGaIn) supporting a native skin (~1 nm thick) of Ga(2)O(3) as a nondama...

PURPOSE Endophthalmitis is mediated by inflammatory cytokines. We employed a quantitative antibody array, which profiles protein expression and function in a high-throughput manner, to identify inflammatory mediators in the infectious aqueous and vitreous humor from patients with endophthalmitis. METHODS In this prospective study, aqueous humor (AH) and vitreous humor (VH) samples were obtain...