developing and handling in healthy subjects

... Figure Inter-joint coordination in stroke subjects Delay between IPJ and MCPJ of thumb (TH) and long fingers (LF) for stroke subjects, during hand opening (a, b) and hand closing (c, d) Columns and ... These impairments were present in both hand opening and closing Hand opening in stroke Hand motion characterization in healthy subjects In healthy subjects IPJ of long fingers showed, with respect ... mathematical modelling of multi-joint finger motion in healthy subjects and stroke patients Methods: Hand opening and closing movements were examined in 12 healthy volunteers and 14 hemiplegic...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... studying reaching and grasping in healthy subjects and in individuals with hemiparesis by comparing movement kinematics of identical tasks made in a physical and a virtual environment Since reaching ... reality in clinical training: developing the spatial skills of children with mobility impairments In In Virtual Environments in Clinical Psychology and Neuroscience: Methods and Techniques in Advanced ... Cirstea M, Levin MF: Compensatory strategies for reaching in stroke Brain 2000, 123:940-953 Levin MF: Interjoint coordination during pointing movements is disrupted in spastic hemiparesis Brain 1996,...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... [27] investigated the EMG activity of the VMO, VLL and VLO muscles in 21 healthy subjects performing open kinetic chain knee extension at 15° and 90° of flexion The results showed that the VLO and ... strengthening is unlikely, especially concerning the VMO/ VLL muscles [28,29] Our findings demonstrate that hip abduction not facilitated VLL and VLO activity in relation to the VMO in healthy subjects ... retinacular tenderness in patients with patellofemoral pain, including some who demonstrated histological changes within the perineural tissues of the lateral retinaculum on examination of surgical...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... being included in this study, all the subjects underwent clinical examinations intended to exclude cerebral, cardiac, and circulatory diseases According to the rules of the local Hospital in ... improvement in motor control and reaching tasks, and increased his AAT (Aachener Aphasie Test) score from 52/60 to 56/60 Measurement protocol We applied TCD and NIRS during baseline conditions and during ... This index is expressed in %/s From the TCD data, we also calculated the Gosling's pulsatility index (PI) of the MCA in baseline conditions and in correspondence of the maximum CBFV increase during...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... anxiolytics suriclone and alprazolam on cognitive information processing utilizing topographic mapping of event-related brain potentials (P300) in healthy subjects Eur J Clin Pharmacol 1995, 49:183-191 ... orally) In the subchronic experiment, 17 healthy men (n = 8) and women (n = 9) ranging in age from 22 to 34 (average age 27.4 (SD 4.1)) participated in the study The 17 subjects were divided into ... trail making test consists of two parts [25] In part A, subjects are asked to draw lines connecting 25 consecutively numbered circles on a worksheet In part B, they draw lines connecting 25 consecutively...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... single dose of abatacept on the humoral response in healthy subjects to two vaccines, tetanus toxoid vaccine and 23-valent pneumococcal vaccine This study was carried out in normal healthy subjects ... Drug administration and vaccination Abatacept 750 mg was administered over 30 minutes by i.v infusion using a calibrated, constant-rate infusion Tetanus toxoid vaccine (Aventis Pasteur Inc., Swiftwater, ... administered and its relative timing Subjects randomized to Group A (control group, vaccines only) did not receive abatacept, as reflected in Table Subjects randomized to Group B received vaccines...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... Vitamin C Vitamin E aChange (mm3) in tibial cartilage volume per standard-deviation increase in vitamin C/vitamin E intake before and after adjusting for energy intake, age, gender, body mass index, ... studies have examined the relationship between vitamin C and vitamin E intake and knee structure in healthy subjects In our current study performed on healthy subjects free of clinical knee OA, ... gender, and body mass index dOdds ratio of tibiofemoral bone marrow lesions being present per standard-deviation increase in vitamin C/vitamin E intake before and after adjusting for energy intake,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... 100% In all subjects the cardiac response was characterized by a significant increase in HR (from 64.0 to 77.4 b/min; p < 0.0001) as well as by little reductions in SBP (5/8 subjects) and increases ... VEGF, Epo, and ET-1 as well as genes involved in cell recruitment such as the chemokine receptor CXCR4 and the ligand SDF-1/ CXCL12 [14,23,29,30] In our study despite an absolute increase in serum ... ventilated region In our subjects the increase in HR is prompt and prevalent (8/8 subjects) , confirming that small reductions in PAO2 are detected by peripheral chemoreceptors eliciting the sympathetic...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:21

... remaining SNPs could be explained by LD Our findings indicate that serum concentrations of YKL-40 are under the influence of genetic variability in the CHI3L1 gene in both patients with RA and healthy ... chitin and chitinase/chitinase-like proteins in inflammation, tissue remodeling and injury Ann Rev Physiol 2011, 73:479-501 Faibish M, Francescone R, Bentley B, Yan W, Shao R: A YKL-40-neutralizing ... YKL-40 in both patients with RA and healthy controls Our findings indicate that the g.-131(C > G) polymorphism is the main contributor to the inter-individual variation of serum YKL-40 in Caucasian...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 17:22

... of missing data in every item and the frequency distribution of individual items were determined Ordering of levels of health The ordering of item means within its scale was examined and compared ... SF-36 Item % Missing Mean SD Physical Functioning (PF) Vigorous activities Walking more than a kilometer Climbing several flights of stairs Bending, kneeling, stooping Lifting or carrying groceries ... RP and RE scales also resulted in these scales exhibiting substantial ceiling effects (> 60%) The scales which measure both disability and well-being (GH, VT, MH) showed minimal floor and ceiling...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... AG, McFadyen BJ, Levin MF: Reaching in reality and virtual reality: a comparison of movement kinematics in healthy subjects and in adults with hemiparesis J Neuroengineering Rehabil 2004, 1(1):11 ... a haptic device (yielding sensory feedback) to develop a precise quantitative kinematic assessment tool and a training device for hand movement in healthy subjects and in victims with neurological ... 3-dimensional hand trajectories in a virtual environment for healthy subjects Methods Subjects The study included 58 healthy adults (right-hand dominant), 30 females and 28 males, mainly hospital...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... range Our findings correspond to the values previously reported in the literature using this technique [7,8,13,28,29] In a larger Japanese study encompassing 70 healthy subjects spanning 11 institutions, ... During scanning, the subject’s head was rested in a foam-cushioned headrest, and a head strap was used to minimize head movement Initially, a 6-min transmission scan with a rotating 137 Cs single-photon ... a catheter in the antecubital vein followed by 20 mL of saline solution Image acquisition In nine subjects, PET scanning was performed before CT, and in three subjects, CT before PET A lateral...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 23:20

... AG, McFadyen BJ, Levin MF: Reaching in reality and virtual reality: a comparison of movement kinematics in healthy subjects and in adults with hemiparesis J Neuroengineering Rehabil 2004, 1(1):11 ... a haptic device (yielding sensory feedback) to develop a precise quantitative kinematic assessment tool and a training device for hand movement in healthy subjects and in victims with neurological ... 3-dimensional hand trajectories in a virtual environment for healthy subjects Methods Subjects The study included 58 healthy adults (right-hand dominant), 30 females and 28 males, mainly hospital...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:20

... involved in the acquisition of data and was involved in drafting the manuscript MT was involved in the statistical analysis and the interpretation of data and helped to draft the manuscript TE was involved ... the manuscript TE was involved in the genetic analyses and was involved in drafting the manuscript KZ was involved in the genetic analyses and was involved in drafting the manuscript MN made substantial ... al investigated the relationship between several SNPs in the G72 region and select cognitive measures in attention, working memory, and episodic memory in a cohort of over 600 subjects, including...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... purity and viability as determined by trypan blue staining After washing by phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) solution and counting the cell numbers, neutrophils were suspended in 10% FCS in RPMI ... leading to enhanced nuclear factorkappa B (NF-kB) DNA binding activity [20] Activation of NF-kB leads to increased inflammatory gene products such as interleukin-8 (IL-8) and GM-CSF causing neutrophilic ... release This was an interesting finding because the degree of oxidative stress may modulate the profile of inflammatory mediators during viral infection In the current study, it remained unclear why...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... left) and the CT images showed an increase in poorly aerated areas (reaching 15% of the region of interest); non-aerated areas remained close to zero Such findings suggest an alternative interpretation ... management in healthy subjects, as far as gas exchange and/ or potential ventilation-associated lung injury are concerned, and also for post-surgical and critical care Key messages • Atelectasis and intermittent ... reflected as alveolar tidal hyperinflation [11] In the region of minimal Ers, the tidal re-aeration and hyperinflation areas possibly coexisted in balance, and this could explain the steady elastance...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... When one eats foods containing capsaicin, the burning sensation is elicited by TRPV1-containing peptidergic nociceptors surrounding taste buds in the tongue [16] Capsaicin-induced cough may not ... decided using a computer program The day before the start of the test and during the four days, subjects were prohibited from taking any capsinoids in meals or beverages In order to ensure subjects ... saline to make testing solutions starting at a concentration of 0.49 µM and increasing it by doubling the concentration up to 1000 µM Capsiate was extracted from CH-19 sweet (kind gift from Ajinomoto...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... urge-tocough and the perception of dyspnea simultaneously in healthy male smokers using citric acid as a tussive stimuli and external inspiratory resistive load as a dyspnea intervention Methods Subjects ... progressively increasing concentration of citric acid Increasing concentrations were inhaled until five or more coughs were elicited, and each nebulizer application was separated by a minute interval ... burning, irritation, choking, and smoke in their throat Subjects were told that their sensation of an urge-to-cough could increase, decrease, or stay the same during the citric acid challenges, and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20

... and SSL by group (high x low stress intensity), and coping type (problem x emotion) as categorical independent variables In both emotion and problem-focused coping, elderly with high stress intensity ... Labouvie-Vief G Age and sex differences in strategies of coping and defense across the life span Psychol Aging 1996;11(1):127-39 Whitty MT Coping and defending: age differences in maturity of defense ... defense mechanisms and coping strategies Aging Ment Health 2003;7(2):123-32 Stress symptoms and coping strategies in healthy elderly subjects Souza-Talarico JN, Caramelli P, Nitrini R, Chaves EC...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20