The aim of this study was to analyse the correlation between external and internal mandibular morphology in adult or adolescent normal anthropological mandibles. Lateral radiographs of 31 symmetrical mandibles were analysed. The external morphology was defined by the gonial and beta-angles. In order to analyse internal morphology, a metallic pin was placed in the mental canal on the left side b...

PURPOSE Transforming growth factor-beta2 is known to be present at elevated levels in the aqueous humor of patients with primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) and diabetes but not in uveitis-related secondary glaucoma. We investigated total TGF-beta2 levels and levels of the active form of TGF-beta2 in the aqueous humor of eyes with different types of glaucoma. METHODS The concentration of the t...

BACKGROUND In treating patients with ocular hypertension or primary open-angle glaucoma, if a single agent cannot successfully control the pressure, additional medications may be prescribed. The cost of treatment may become expensive, especially with multiple drug therapy. Thus, prescribing techniques that help minimize costs may be beneficial to patients when medically appropriate. OBJECTIVE...

The observed pattern of linear polarization the cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons is a sensitive probe physics violating parity symmetry under inversion spatial coordinates. A new parity-violating interaction might have rotated plane by an angle $\beta$ as CMB been traveling for more than 13 billion years. This effect known "cosmic birefringence." In this paper, we present measurements ...

Simultaneous small- and wide-angle X-ray diffraction was used to investigate the structural conversions in the so-called sub-main-transition of fully hydrated multilamellar vesicles of distearoyl phosphatidylcholine (DSPC). The small-angle diffraction patterns show a modification in the supramolecular structure of the corrugated lipid bilayer and reveal that the sub-main-transition does not abo...

When three Majorana neutrinos describe the solar and atmospheric neutrino data via oscillations, a nonzero measurement of neutrinoless double beta (0νββ) decay can determine the sum of neutrino masses ∑ mν if the solar solution has small-angle mixing, and place a lower bound on ∑ mν for large-angle solar mixing. If in addition a nonzero ∑ mν is deduced from cosmology, the neutrino mass spectrum...

OBJECTIVE Comparison of two methods for evaluation of anatomical parameters of elbow joints in Bernese Mountain Dogs. STUDY DESIGN Radiographic analysis. ANIMALS Nine hundred and thirty-one radiographs of elbow joints from 305 Bernese Mountain Dogs. MATERIAL AND METHODS The angles OL, PA, RA and UL were measured according to the Mues method and the Radius of the humeral condyle, Opening a...

As an aid in the selection of sites in a protein where a disulfide bond might be engineered, a computer program has been developed. The algorithm starts with the generation of C beta positions from the N, C alpha and C atom coordinates available from a three-dimensional model. A first set of residue pairs that might form a disulfide bond is selected on the basis of C beta-C beta distances betwe...