BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Posterior-anterior (PA) assessment of the lumbar spine correlates with radiographic signs of instability and can guide treatment choices, yet studies of the validity of lumbar PA assessments have not been conducted in vivo. The purposes of this study were to determine the intertester reliability of the PA examination in assessing intersegmental lumbar spine motion and to ...

For a regular uncountable cardinal $\kappa$, we discuss the order relationship between unbounding and dominating numbers $\mathfrak{b}_{\kappa}$ $\mathfrak{d}_{\kappa}$ on $\kappa$ invariants of higher meager ideal $\mathscr{M}_{\kappa}$. In particular, obtain an almost complete characterization $\mathsf{add}(\mathscr{M}_{\kappa})$ $\mathsf{cof}(\mathscr{M}_{\kappa})$ in terms $\mathsf{cov}(\ma...

The goal of the present study was to determine whether the kappa-opioid receptor agonist (ORA) U50,488 attenuates behavioral and primary afferent nerve responses to noxious colorectal distension (CRD) by sodium channel blockade. We tested the analgesic kappa-ORA (+/-)-trans U50,488, its enantiomers (-)-trans (1S,2S)-U50,488 and non kappa-ORA (+)-trans (1R,2R)-U50,488, and/or its diastereomer (-...

The aim of this study was to assess the sagittal skeletal jaw base and dental arch relationships among adult orthodontic patients. 152 (male: 69 and female: 83; 21.4±3.48 years of age) patients’ dental study model casts and pretreatment 2D lateral cephalometric radiographs derived from CBCT 3D images were randomly selected. Paired t-test was performed to assess the difference between the examin...

Purpose: This study examines agreement between the devices Anterion® and Pentacam HR® used for corneal pupil measurements in healthy eyes. Methods: The parameters compared two were: anterior Km (D), K2 K1 axis (°), astigmatism K max posterior CCT (μm), thinnest point thickness X-coordinate (mm), Y-coordinate diameter center-corneal vertex distance (mm) (angle kappa), centroid angle (mm). Result...

the aim of the present study was to screen the genotype profile of bovine kappa-casein gene among frieswal (hf × sahiwal) crossbred cattle developed in india. a total number of two hundred frieswal cows were evaluated for hinfi rflp based genotyping of kappa-casein gene. we observed that only two genotypes (aa and ab) exist among the studied population with the genotype frequency of 0.58 (n=117...

more than 80% of the total milk protein contains caseins that are to forms α-s1, α-s2, β-casein and kappa casein. kappa casein is smaller than other milk proteins but due to have a role in size and stability of micelles. the present study describes polymorphism of kappa casein gene. this is the first study of kappa casein gene polymorphism in najdi cattle of iran. we used the polymerase chain r...