OBJECTIVE To determine not only the vertical but also horizontal localization of the adductor hiatus (AH) and classify its shape and structure macroscopically. MATERIAL AND METHODS Forty lower extremities were dissected to expose the AH. Its shape and structure were macroscopically noted, and the AH was classified into four types. For determining the localization, measurements were made with ...

BACKGROUND Atherosclerosis is a complex, chronic disease that usually arises from the converging action of several pathogenic processes, including hypertension, hyperlipidemia, obesity, and the accumulation of oxidized LDL. Platelet-activating factor acetylhydrolase (PAF-AH) is a LDL- and HDL-bound enzyme that hydrolyzes and inactivates PAF and prevents LDL-cholesterol oxidation, thus delaying ...

Infertility patients are known to be at increased risk of endometrial carcinoma (EC) and atypical hyperplasia (AH). However, the incidence and clinical features of EC and AH in these patients remain to be clarified. In this study, we examined the rate at which a routine infertility workup revealed EC/AH and investigated the clinicopathological features of EC/AH detected in this way. Among patie...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to ascertain optimal assisted hatching (AH) method in frozen embryo transfer. We compared the effect of depending on whether mechanical or laser-AH was performed before or after the vitrification of embryo development rate and blastocyst cell numbers. METHODS In order to induce superovulation, pregnant mare's serum gonadotropin followed by human chorionic ...

Mean dimension for AH-algebras with diagonal maps is introduced. It is shown that if a simple unital AH-algebra with diagonal maps has mean dimension zero, then it has strict comparison on positive elements. In particular, the strict order on projections is determined by traces. Moreover, a lower bound of the mean dimension is given in term of Toms’ comparison radius. Using classification resul...

The effect of intravenous and intracameral ouabain on aqueous humor (AH) formation rates was measured in cats. AH formation rate was determined with continuous, posteroanterior chamber perfusion with an AH-like buffer containing trace quantities of inulin-C. After intravenous injection of 67 fig of ouabain per kilogram, there was a 40 per cent reduction in AH formation rate, while 34 fig per ki...

The optimal roughage concentration required in feedlot diets changes continuously for many reasons such as source, availability, price, and interaction with other ingredients in the diet. Wet distillers grains and solubles (WDGS) are common in finishing diets and they contain relatively high amounts of fiber compared with other grains they replace. Therefore, concentration of roughage could be ...

Let AH be the real linear space of all Hermitian elements in A . Now AH = A+−A+; in a natural way AH is an ordered topological vector space with positive cone A+ (see [3], [6], [8]). The cone of all positive linear forms on AH will be denoted by P . Restriction of a positive linear form on A to AH gives an element ∗Work done as a student at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands). Receive...

AIM Adenoidal hypertrophy (AH) in children is associated with obstructive manifestations like mouth breathing, snoring. Unfortunately, little is known regarding sleep architecture of AH in children. The purpose of this study was therefore undertaken to investigate the polysomnographic variables in children with AH. METHOD 47 children with AH and 11 controls underwent nocturnal polysomnography...

The clinical presentation of alcoholic hepatitis (AH) can be mimicked by other alcoholic liver diseases. The aim of this study was to identify clinical features that predict AH on liver biopsy. Biopsies from patients hospitalized for presumed severe AH were used to identify a derivation cohort (101 patients) and validation cohort (71 patients). Using histologic scores for hepatocyte ballooning,...