BACKGROUND Age, weight, and duration of symptoms have been associated with a poor response to treatment for plantar heel pain (PHP), but no studies were identified that examined predictors of response to physical therapy intervention. The purpose of this investigation was to examine the influence of age, body mass index (BMI), and symptom duration on treatment response to physical therapy inter...

Faculteit der Natuurwetenschappen, Wiskunde en Informatica Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica

The realisation of a 7 tesla/25 kA test facility for measuring the critical current density and the quench propagation velocity of high-current superconductors has already been reported [11. The test volume in this set-up is torus-shaped having a diameter of 0.2 m and a cross-section of 5 cm2. The test facility has been equipped with a set of AC coils and pick-up coils in order to perform AC lo...

The use of the PHP programming language is a fastgrowing, and rapidly the language becomes mature enough to develop robust web-applications with. This paper investigates ways that model-driven principles can be exploited for PHP application development.

We report here a novel fluorescent chemical probe which stains distinct neural stem/progenitor cells (NSPCs) by binding to acid ceramidase in mouse neurospheres. is distributed evenly or unevenly to the daughter cells during multiple mitoses enabling the live imaging of symmetric and asymmetric divisions of isolated NSPCs.

Results Sample size: 88 patients. Repair treatment: surgical(S) 28,41%, endovascular (EVT) 56,82% and conservative 14,77%. Morbidity-GOS scale (S/EVT): 1 = 8 % /14 %; 2 = 4 %/ 2%; 3 =12 % /12 % 4: 28%/ 14% 5: 48 %/ 58% (p 0,59). We separated 2 GOS groups: good prognosis (grade 3,4,5) 88 %/84% and bad prognosis (1,2) 12 %/16% (p 0,64). Complications (S/EVT): vasospasm 28% /22% (p 0,57); rebleedi...

CONTEXT Pseudohypoparathyroidism type Ib (PHP-Ib) is a rare disorder resulting from genetic and epigenetic aberrations in the GNAS complex. PHP-Ib, usually defined by renal resistance to parathyroid hormone, is due to a maternal loss of GNAS exon A/B methylation and leads to decreased expression of the stimulatory G protein α (Gsα) in specific tissues. OBJECTIVE To clarify the usefulness of m...

Intracranial aneurysm (IA) accounts for 85% of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (SAH) and is mainly caused due to the weakening of arterial wall. The structural integrity of the intracranial arteries is mainly influenced by the extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling. The Proteoglycan Versican plays an important role in extracellular matrix assembly and plays a major role in the pathogenesis of IA. The li...