Facial-facial anastomosis (FFA), i.e., suture of transected facial nerve, was performed in adult Wistar rats. For 10-112 d post-operation (DPO), half of the animals received standard food (placebo) and half received food pellets containing 1000 ppm nimodipine, a Ca2+ channel blocker. The time course of mimetic reinnervation between these two groups was compared by counting all retrogradely labe...

We reported on one new series of light-emitting copolymers for polymer light-emitting devices (PLEDs), poly(dioctyl fluorene-codiphenyl oxadiazole)s (P(DOF-DPO)s). The device structure used in this study was composed of: indium tin oxide (ITO) anode/PEDOT:PSS ((polyethvlenedioxythiophene)–poly(styrene sulfonate)) as hole-transporting layer/P(DOF) or P(DOF-DPO) as emissive layer/calcium + alumin...

The double pushout (DPO) approach for graph transformation has been applied already to Petri nets in order to model rule based transformations of the net structure. Recently, as alternative to the classical DPO approach, the cospan DPO approach has been proposed where rules are cospans instead of spans. Although the cospan DPO approach has been shown to be equivalent to the classical DPO approa...

OBJECTIVE To determine which of 3 different plate angles (20°, 25°, 30°) used in double pelvic osteotomy (DPO) would result in the most similar acetabular angle (AA) achieved with a 20° triple pelvic osteotomy (TPO) technique in dogs. STUDY DESIGN Experimental anatomic study. ANIMALS Cadaveric canine pelves (n = 8). METHODS Transverse plane computed tomographic images of cadaveric pelves ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Darbepoetin alpha (DPO) exhibits comparable renoprotective effects to erythropoietin (EPO) in several animal models of acute renal injury. We examined whether DPO also attenuated renal injury in a rat model of cisplatin nephrotoxicity. METHODS Male Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into four groups: untreated, DPO-treated, cisplatin-injected, and DPO-treated cisplatin-injected....

This paper describes the 5dpo team. The paper will be divided into three main sections, corresponding to three main blocks: the Global Level, the Local Level and the Interface Level. These Levels, their subsystems and some implementation details will be described next.

E. fischeriana has long been used as a traditional Chinese medicine. Recent studies reported that some compounds of E. fischeriana exhibited antimicrobial and immune enhance activity. Innate immune system is essential for the immune surveillance of inner and outer threats, initial host defense responses and immune modulation. The role of natural drug compounds, including E. fischeriana, in inna...

BACKGROUND Exon deletions of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) gene account for most of the alterations found in DMD and Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD). This study was to evaluate the usefulness of dual priming oligonucleotide multiplex PCR (DPO PCR) in detection of exon deletions of DMD gene. METHODS Thirty-seven DMD or BMD patients who had known exon deletions detected by conventional mult...

A new series of organic light emitting copolymers, poly(dioctyl fluorene -co diphenyl oxadiazole)s P(DOFDPO), are reported in this paper. We found organic polymer light emitting devices with comparable device efficiency and more saturated blue color based on this new series of copolymers with less than 10% DPO moiety when compared with poly(dioctyl fluorene) P(DOF) devices. The device structure...

The help project proposes a model of data-parallel programming allowing a programmer to develop an algorithm the nearest of his thought. Usually, for many parts of a data-parallel program, the manipulations of data could be modelized as geometrical migrations inside a cartesian reference space. We de ne the language C-help in the frame of explicit data-parallel languages, the communications and...