BACKGROUND Cigarette smoking causes cardiovascular disease and activates markers of endothelial dysfunction or injury. We investigated the nailfold capillary blood velocity (NCV) in cigarette smokers compared to non-smokers. METHODS Forty-eight men (eighteen non-smokers and thirty smokers) were recruited. We measured NCV using nailfold capillary microscopy and exhaled carbon monoxide (ECO) co...

Nerve conduction velocity (NCV) testing for the median nerve is the gold standard for diagnosing carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), which affects about 6% of the general population. However, NCV equipment is relatively expensive and not always available at outpatient clinics. This study investigated the effects of different sampling rates and electrode placements on the NCV values of the median nerv...

Oxaliplatin is effective in the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer patients; however, severe neurotoxicity developed frequently. To assess the efficacy of nerve conduction velocity (NCV) study in objectively assessing oxaliplatin-induced peripheral neuropathy, a pilot study was performed. A total of 28 patients with metastatic colorectal cancer treated at Taipei Veterans General Hospital...

Animal models, particularly mice, are used extensively to investigate neurological diseases. Basic research regarding animal models of human neurological disease requires that the animals exhibit hall mark characteristics of the disease. These include disease specific anatomical, metabolic and behavioral changes. Nerve conduction velocity (NCV) is the predominant method used to assess periphera...

BACKGROUND Different cryotherapy modalities have distinct effects on sensory and motor nerve conduction parameters. However, it is unclear how these parameters change during the post-cooling period and how the exercise carried out in this period would influence the recovery of nerve conduction velocity (NCV). OBJECTIVES To compare the effects of three cryotherapy modalities on post-cooling NC...

A breadth-first search method for determining optimal 3-line circuits composed of quantum NOT, CNOT, controlled-V and controlled-V + (NCV) gates is introduced. Results are presented for simple gate count and for technology motivated cost metrics. The optimal NCV circuits are also compared to NCV circuits derived from optimal NOT, CNOT and Toffoli (NCT) gate circuits. The work presented here pro...

A breadth-first search method for determining optimal 3-qubit circuits composed of quantum NOT, CNOT, controlled-V and controlled-V+ (NCV) gates is introduced. Results are presented for simple gate count and for technology motivated cost metrics. The optimal NCV circuits are also compared to NCV circuits derived from optimal NOT, CNOT and Toffoli (NCT) gate circuits. The work presented here pro...

OBJECTIVE Subclinical inflammation has been implicated in the development of diabetic sensorimotor polyneuropathy (DSPN), but studies using electrophysiological assessment as outcomes are scarce. Therefore, we aimed to investigate associations of biomarkers reflecting different aspects of subclinical inflammation with motor and sensory nerve conduction velocity (NCV) in individuals with diabete...

The complex interactions among the structural features of axon, its myelin sheath and its length, determine the nature of nerve impulse conduction.. In addition, fibers of different diameters and degree of myelination determine the nerve conduction velocity (NCV). It is therefore, hypothesized that for the same nerve, the NCV may differ in animals, due to the differences in the leg architecture...

Anesthetic and surgical procedures and an electrophysiological method were developed for recording nerve conduction velocity (NCV) of CNS fibers in the murine spinal cord. Under intravenous anesthesia and artificial ventilation the lumbar spinal cord segments L1 to L4 and dorsal roots L3 to L5 on the left side were exposed by laminectomy. After stimulation of the dorsal root L4, a compound acti...