OBJECT The authors undertook a retrospective single-institution review of 261 patients who underwent anterior cervical corpectomy, reconstruction with allograft fibula, and placement of an anterior plating system for the treatment of cervical spinal stenosis to assess fusion rates and procedure-related complications. METHODS Between October 1989 and June 1995, 261 patients with cervical steno...

Researchers have established that alcohol is a risk factor for date rape for both victims and perpetrators. Objective: The authors tried to experimentally address the link between alcohol consumption and women’s risk detection abilities in a risky sexual vignette. Participants: The authors recruited 42 women from undergraduate classrooms at a large midwestern university and randomly assigned th...

blockers (drugs to slow the heart rate and reduce contractions of the heart muscle) prior to bypass surgery appear to have improved survival and fewer complications during and after the procedure, according to a study supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (HS10403). Researchers indicate that up to 1,000 lives potentially could be saved each year by giving patients beta blo...

Frequency (FRQ) and its transcriptional activator, the White Collar Complex (WCC), are essential components of interconnected feedback loops of the circadian clock of Neurospora. In a negative feedback loop, FRQ inhibits the WCC by recruiting casein kinase 1a (CK1a) and supporting its phosphorylation. In an interconnected positive loop, FRQ supports accumulation of high levels of WCC. Phosphory...

The emergence of microphysiologic epithelial lung models using human cells in a physiologically relevant microenvironment has the potential to be a powerful tool for preclinical drug development and to improve predictive power regarding in vivo drug clearance. In this study, an in vitromodel of the airway comprising human primary lung epithelial cells cultured in a microfluidic platform was use...

The scaling function S(q/­) is constrained by the physics of the highand low-frequency limits. As q=­ ! `, S must approach i­/q in order for j to assume its superconducting form, equation (1). At low frequencies, S approaches a real constant S1(0) which characterizes the d.c. conductivity of the normal state. By comparing the measured complex conductivity to equation (2), we can extract both th...

Giriş: Obstrüktif uyku apne sendromu (OUAS) ve bronş hiperreaktivitesi (BHR) arasındaki ilişki iyi bilinmemektedir. Bu çalışmada, OUAS’lı hastalarda hastalığın şiddeti ve BHR arasındaki ilişkiyi araştırdık. Materyal ve Metod: Bu çalışmaya polisomnografileriyle OUAS tanısı alan 47 (37’si erkek, 10’u kadın) hasta alındı. Histamin provokasyon testi yapıldı ve beden kitle indeksi (BKİ, kg/m2) hesap...

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