disorders of the hypothalamus and anterior pituitary

... to the cervical and vaginal mucosa When these are removed, slight oozing occurs There may be both erythema and edema of the vulva and vagina The discharge with Candida infection has a pH of 4–5 ... acne, and symptoms are soreness and local swelling, edema, CHAPTER 20 DISORDERS OF THE VULVA AND VAGINA 581 cellulitis, and suppuration of the groin Involvement of apocrine glands establishes the ... in origin Nonetheless, cancer of the vulva may arise also from the urethra, glandular elements of the vulva, or mucosa of the lower third of the vagina Vulvar cancers are intraepithelial or invasive...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 16:20

... Axial and torsional loading of the actuator produced distal (Fd), medial (Fm) and anterior- posterior (Fap) loading of the femoral head due to the mounting geometry and the offset between the femoral ... that the regions of contact between the stem and the cortical component of the composite bones were consistent between specimens The specimens were cut at 27 cm from the proximal end and the distal ... Coordinate system and sensor diagram The reference point is located on the lateral side of the stem, 113 mm proximal from the stem tip The arrows show the location and direction of each sensor Park...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... hear, and to distinguish the ugly and the beautiful, the bad and the good, pleasant and unpleasant It is the brain too which is the seat of madness and delirium, of the fears and frights which assail ... volumes of the head and medial surface of the hippocampus and the dorsal and ventral surfaces of the amygdala Volumes of these subregions declined with age in the GTS group but not in controls, so the ... disorders and diseases of the brain, the advances in brain research provide hope in the form of their own understanding of what is going wrong and in the form of advances in novel therapies which...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 11:20

... investigate the effect of the high-fat diet on the expression of OXA and NPY in the hypothalamus of the induced SD obese rats as well as the effect of the fasting on normal SD rats Materials and Methods ... of the HF and the NF diet fed groups (p < 0.01, Figs 11 and 12) NPY immunoreactivity of the ARC and the SCN was denser in the HF than in the same areas of the NF diet fed groups (Fig 13) In the ... results and those of Mondal et al [26] in terms of the number and the contents of the OXA-IR neurons, the increase-tendency in the number of the OXAIR neurons in the LHA of the fasting rats was...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 18:20

... understanding of the anatomy and function of the ear and the auditory nervous system, and it discusses the cause and treatment of hearing disorders Most books on hearing focus either on the anatomy ... coverage of disorders of the auditory system emphasizing the interaction between pathologies of the middle ear and the cochlea and the function of the nervous system and vice versa Hyperactive disorders ... accumulated about the function of the cochlea than of any other sensory organ C H A P T E R Anatomy of the Ear ABSTRACT 10 The ear consists of the outer ear, the middle ear and the inner ear The outer...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 06:21

... at the entrance of the ear canal compared with the sound pressure that is measured in the place of the head The effect of the head on the sound at the entrance of the ear canal is related to the ... ratio between the effective area of the tympanic membrane and the area of the stapes footplate, but the lever ratio of the middle ear bones also contributes The ratio of areas of the BOX 2.2 SOUND ... remarkable in the light of the FIGURE 2.12 (A) Average displacements of the umbo, the head of the stapes and the lenticular process of the incus (B) The lever ratio at 124 dB SPL at the tympanic...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 06:21

... in the ventral parts of the MGB of the thalamus, the nonclassical sensory pathways use the dorsal and medial division of the MGB as relay (Fig 5.10) [122] These divisions of the MGB receive their ... near the frequency of a formant will show a periodic pattern with the frequency of the formant The spectra of these histograms show harmonics of the fundamental frequency of the vowel and the ... between the classical and the non-classical routes and the lateral nucleus of the amygdala (AL), showing the “high route” and the “low route” Connections between the basolateral (ABL) and the central...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 06:21

... The caudal portion of the floor of the lateral recess is the (dorsal) surface of the dorsal cochlear nucleus and the rostral portion of the floor of the lateral recess is the dorsal surface of ... difference between the latency of the N1 of the AP and that of the response from the intracranial portion of the auditory nerve is the travel time in the auditory nerve from the ear to the recording ... the latency of the first peak in the dipole and the length is the relative strength of the dipoles Note the short distance between the two first dipoles (peak I and II of the ABR) and the third...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 06:21

... and standard error of the mean are shown as a function of the intensity of the noise The TTS was measured 20 s after the end of the exposure In this study the noise exposure consisted of a band ... basis of the elevation of the hearing threshold in disorders of the middle ear and the cochlea but the effect on the function of the nervous system may affect speech discrimination Impairment of speech ... decreases the input to the cochlea and thereby decreases the contraction of the stapedius muscle, and that in turn causes the input to the cochlea to again increase, and that increases the contraction...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 06:21

... increase the sensitivity and frequency selectivity of the ear (cf Chapter 3) The widening of the tuning of the basilar membrane broadens the “slices” of the spectrum of broad band sounds from which the ... spectrum The amount of acquired hearing loss depends not only on the intensity of the noise and the duration of exposure but also on the character of the noise (frequency spectrum and time pattern) The ... perpendicular to the surface of the flat portion of the incudo-stapedial joint and that does not cause any movement of the incus and thus no displacement of the tympanic membrane If the pressure in the perilymphatic...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 06:21

... tinnitus and abnormal perception of sounds such as hyperacusis and phonophobia) are some of the most diverse and complex disorders of the auditory system and their causes are often obscure Often ... corresponding to the F1 frequency and the other corresponding to the frequency of F2 The rate of the impulses is that of F0 for voiced sounds, and a quasi-random rate (average of 100 pps) for ... determined on the basis of the output of 16 band-pass filters The output of the six band-pass filters with the largest amplitudes is coded in the impulses that are applied to the electrodes in the cochlea...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 06:21

... yet the client often is irritable S/S      The tongue may be enlarged and the lips swollen, and there may be edema of the eyelids The temperature and pulse rate are decreased, and there ... spine and joint pain develop Acromegaly Medical Management    Treated by surgical removal of the pituitary gland or by radiation therapy with consequent destruction of the pituitary Even if the ... Disorders of the Pituitary Gland PG 947    Ac ro me g aly (Hype rpituitaris m): A condition in which an over secretion of GH (g ro wth ho rmo ne ) occurs after the epiphyses of the long...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 09:37

... in the hypothalamus EF participated in the design of the study and assisted with the in situ hybridizations TJV assisted with the cloning of all the rabbit genes GVdB conceived of the study, and ... suppression of the TRH gene in the context of the low T3 syndrome A first mechanism for increasing the local concentration of T3 in the hypothalamus is increased local conversion of T4 to T3 ... iodothyronine levels in the hypothalamus could be increased is elevated transport of iodothyronines into the hypothalamus The entry of thyroid hormone from the circulation into the hypothalamus is mediated...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 19:20

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2016, 13:26

... Following the suggestions of scientific literature on the advantages of the compactness, reliability, ease of use and affordability of the 980 nm Diode Lasers, we evaluated the efficacy and safety of ... are reduced [17,18] The lasers normally adopted offer the enormous advantage of being conveyed in a fibre, which serves as the working tip at the end of the handpiece The use of flexible, length-adjustable ... question the efficacy of the 980nm Laser for photosclerosis of lesions and areas with little melanin and hemoglobin pigmentation [7] Furthermore, to avoid exaggerated fluences and thermal damage to the...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:48

... (CO2), ammonia (NH3) and methane (CH4) into the atmosphere ♦ Most of the H2O vapor condensed to form the oceans ♦ As a result of three key processes (outlined on the next slide), the air ended up ... grew much warmer, thereby preventing freezing and accelerating surface “weathering” Except for Oxygen, almost all of the Earth’s atmosphere today Evolution of the Earth Process and Equation” its ... Multi-celled organisms appeared, and some of these evolved into soft-bodied worm-like animals with a variety of organs, and still later into the first hard-shelled creatures capable of leaving fossils ♦...

Ngày tải lên: 04/04/2013, 10:51

... techniques The report then describes the recent status of each of the issues RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN INCREASING OZONE CONCENTRATION Ozone generation Method and scale of use Table summarizes the ... concentration and decomposition RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN OZONATION TECHNOLOGY Objectives of ozonation The main objectives of ozonation are to reduce trihalomethane and to remove taste and odor These ... treate the cryptosporidium parvum by chlorine disinfection, the turbidity at the exit of the sand filtration basin is set to a turbidity of 0.1 degrees or less However, this method is neither safe...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 08:40

... proposed the necessity of city-wide recycling system and other measures The fluctuation of water consumption in this period reflects the people’s consideration on the WCP introduced The people ... relocation of large-scale factories in Tokyo such as Toyosu Gas, Ebisu Brewery, Kirin Beer and others to the outskirts of Tokyo Another major factor was the reduction of water use in the factory ... conservation They also continuously make efforts to promote the utilization of SWT devices including the distribution of free SWT-tap developed by them as shown in Fig.7 On the other hand, for triggering...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:17

... differences, both the Arctic and the Antarctic could be considered as ‘regions’ in the context of the contemporary law of the sea and the actual cooperation of states as to the demanding tasks of exploring, ... attitude of UNCLOS III was not wrong The participation of these countries is a proof of their will to contribute to the co-existence of the Treaty system for the Antarctic and the regime for the seas ... regarding the law of the sea In comparison with the first UN codification of the law of the sea, it had to include and develop new topics, such as the exploration and exploitation of the seabed...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 09:20