Objective: To study of relationship between alopecia areata and finger print dermatoglyphic types in 100 patients with alopecia areata and in 100 controls. Methods: A case control analytical study was done on fingerprints of patients with alopecia areata. The control cases were older than 50 years old without any history of alopecia areata. Dermatoglyphical trials of total fingers were al...

Four cDNA clones of tobacco that could code for polypeptides with two WRKY domains were isolated. Among four NtWRKYs and other WRKY family proteins, sequence similarity was basically limited to the two WRKY domains. Glutathione S-transferase fusion proteins with the C-terminal WRKY domain of four NtWRKYs bound specifically to the W-box (TTGACC), and the N-terminal WRKY domain showed weaker bind...

background: to evaluate safety and efficacy of percutaneous release of trigger finger in multiple digits involvement in comparison with  single digit involvement.   method: a number of 100 patients (131 fingers) were treated by percutaneous release and divided into two groups: single digit (group a) and multiple digits (group b). they were followed up for one year. success rate, pain, complicat...

in this research, first, kinematic and dynamic equations of a 4-dof 3-link robotic finger are derived using denavit-hartenberg convention and lagrange’s formulation. to model the muscles, several springs and dampers are placed between the finger links. then, two advanced controllers, namely adaptive-robust and adaptive-neural, which can control the robotic finger in presence of parametric uncer...

Members of the RING finger family are implicated in a variety of functions such as signal transduction, transcriptional regulation and other developmental processes. Using degenerate oligonucleotide primers corresponding to the RING domain, we isolated a novel RING finger gene from the mouse testis cDNA library, which was about 1.8 kb and was termed Trif (testis-specific ring finger). This dedu...

The hand has basic functions like grasping and feeling. It is also a mean of communication and is of major importance for body language and social contact. Injuries to the fingers can occur in accidents at home, work, or play. Finger and partial finger amputations are some of the most frequently encountered forms of partial hand loss which causes devastating physical, psychosocial and economic ...

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To investigate basic issues related to tactile sensing for robots, a sensorized scenario has been devised which comprises amultisensor static platform and a tendon actuated, 4 degree-of-freedom exploratory finger. Multiple sensory information is fed to the finger control unit: most significant is that obtained through acomposite, skin-like tactile sensor, developed in our laboratory and based o...

Osteoclasts of rat parietal bones were cultured and observed under the transmission electron microscope. The processes forming the ruffled border were studied three-dimensionally by a reconstruction method. After the observation of one plane (A-plane), serial ultrathin sections were made at right angles to the A-plane (B-plane). The processes of the ruffled border in the B-plane were reconstruc...

Zinc-finger proteins (ZFPs) are the largest transcription factor family in human genome. They have recently become an area of intense study because of their broad range of biological functions, including development, differentiation, metabolism, autophagy, cancer progression and more recently because they are attractive targets for antiviral therapy [1]. The zinc fingers was first recognized as...