The human dermal skin is permanently exposed to mechanical stress, for instance during facial expression, which might cause wrinkles with age. Cyclic mechanical stretching of cells results in cellular and cytoskeleton alignment perpendicular to the stretch direction regulating cellular response. With gene expression profiling it was aimed to identify the differentially expressed genes associate...

The custom-fit approach to total knee arthroplasty in conjunction with removal of osteophytes and preservation of ligaments rapidly returned function; restored motion, stability, and postoperative mechanical axis alignment; effected high patient satisfaction; and had an acceptable clinical outcome.

Bri.nging e+ebeams of unequal energy to collision inside a detector for the study of B mesons presents new. problems of mechanical support, alignment, magnet design and vacuum engineering.

The influence of sagittal plane prosthetic alignment changes on loads applied to the ispilateral knee was investigated using 5 transtibial amputee subjects. The goal was to determine which prosthetic alignment results in the most energy efficient standing and also minimises stresses on knee structures during standing. The electromyogram, the external mechanical loading of the prosthetic leg and...

The effects of flow alignment on the relaxation dynamics of a lamellar dihlock copolymer melt and the dynamics of flow alignment itself are investigated using simultaneous measurements of shear stress and birefringence in both the flow plane and the sample plane. The primary advantage of this rhea-optical approach in the context of flow alignment is that it provides quantitative measurements of...

Purpose To evaluate the effects of femoral lateral bowing on coronal alignment after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) and examine whether the use of navigation helps obtain better postoperative coronal alignment and component position. Materials and Methods Radiological results and outlier rates were compared between the conventional TKA group and the navigation-assisted TKA group, and factors a...

We present a technique--based on the Lutz, Winston, and Maleki test used in stereotactic linear accelerator radiosurgery--for verifying whether proton beams are being delivered within the required spatial coincidence with the gantry mechanical isocenter. Our procedure uses a proton beam that is collimated by a circular aperture at its central axis and is then intercepted by a small steel sphere...

Although the mechanical phenomena associated with preconditioning are well-established, the underlying mechanisms responsible for this behavior are still not fully understood. Using quantitative polarized light imaging, this study assessed whether preconditioning alters the collagen fiber alignment of ligament tissue, and determined whether changes in fiber organization are associated with the ...