Purpose: Coronary angiography can cause post-procedural pain, and limited flexibility in the hips and knees may contribute to this discomfort. Patients with restricted hip and knee flexibility may experience increased stress. This study was designed to assess the flexibility of the hip and knee and its relationship with pain experienced after femoral angiography. Methods: This cross-sectional ...

Membrane depolarization is critical to pulmonary arterial (PA) contraction. Both L-type Ca(2+) channels (Ca(L)) and Rho-kinase are important signaling components of this process and mitochondrial and non-mitochondrial generated superoxides can be part of the signaling process. Maturation and long-term hypoxia (LTH) each can modify depolarization-dependent contraction and the role of superoxides...

For a finite field $mathbb{F}_q$, the bivariate skew polynomial ring $mathbb{F}_q[x,y;rho,theta]$ has been used to study codes cite{XH}. In this paper, we give some characterizations of the ring $R[x,y;rho,theta]$, where $R$ is a commutative ring. We investigate 2-D skew $(lambda_1,lambda_2)$-constacyclic codes in the ring $R[x,y;rho,theta]/langle x^l-lambda_1,y^s-lambda_2rangle_{mathit{l}}.$ A...

Tonic physiological activity of RhoA/Rho kinase contributes to the maintenance of penile flaccidity through its involvement in the Ca(2+) sensitization of erectile tissue smooth muscle. The present study hypothesized that Rho kinase is also involved in the modulation of Ca(2+) entry induced by alpha(1)-adrenoceptor stimulation of penile arteries. Rat penile arteries were mounted in microvascula...

There are a lot of generalizations of the Banach contraction mapping principle in the literature. One of the most interesting of them is the result of Khan et al. 1 . They addressed a new category of fixed point problems for a single self-map with the help of a control function which they called an altering distance function. A function φ : 0,∞ → 0,∞ is called an altering distance function if φ...

Rho GTPases are regulatory proteins whose patterns on the surface of a cell affect cell polarization, cell motility and repair of single-cell wounds. The stereotypical patterns formed by two such proteins, Rho and Cdc42, around laser-injured frog oocytes permit experimental analysis of GTPase activation, inactivation, segregation and crosstalk. Here, we review the development and analysis of a ...

Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disorders are a clinically and genetically heterogeneous group of hereditary motor and sensory neuropathies characterized by muscle weakness and wasting, foot and hand deformities, and electrophysiological changes. The CMT4H subtype is an autosomal recessive demyelinating form of CMT that was recently mapped to a 15.8-Mb region at chromosome 12p11.21-q13.11, in two con...

What began as molecular switches linking cell surface receptors to the reorganization of the actin cytoskeleton has now emerged as an important mediator of cardiovascular disease. The lowmolecular-weight GTPases of the Rho family have appeared with increasing frequency in the cardiovascular literature. This interest stems from two seemingly opposite disciplines. From a basic science perspective...