jumper s knee patellar tendon overuse injury patellar tendinosis

... test 3562 In this paper, we describe the expression of soluble forms of the ECDs of non-a subunits of the human muscle AChR, using the yeast P pastoris system We have successfully used this system ... expression in a soluble, glycosylated form and in satisfactory amounts using the yeast Pichia pastoris expression system, which combines the speed of bacterial systems with the advantages of ... by-products) To eliminate the possibility that rabbit antibodies raised against such components could lead to spurious ELISA results, a control yeast supernatant sample was prepared as described...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 10:20

... future studies with a larger sample size should be conducted to confirm the results of this study Conclusions A single session of repeated wrist movements is sufficient to transiently alter the response ... vs t0 remained significant until the last assessment at 10 minutes post intervention (p < 0.05 for the comparisons t2 vs t0, t3 vs t0, t4 vs t0 and p = 0.06 for the comparison t5 vs t0) Agonist ... important consideration is the possibility that the short-term plasticity we observed shares a spinal, as well as cortical component Previous findings of rapid plasticity using a similar training...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... emerging as an effective tool for assessment of periprosthetic soft tissues, osteolysis and particle disease [13,14] Axial MR provide the most useful images for diagnosis and in acute cases will show ... referred pain from the spine or knee, as well soft tissue irritation such as ilio-psoas tendonitis and synovitis [4-8] Although ilio-psoas tendonitis has been described in sports medicine and radiology ... Apart from showing the soft tissue swelling, a Computed Tomography is also helpful to rule out component malpositiong [6,7] Although MRI is the most sensitive study to assess the tendon, its role...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... prognosis of a patient with rupture of the meniscofibular ligament This is the first time that this injury is reported The mechanism of injury in our patient was consistent with previous mechanical ... but had not completely resolved A case series of patients with the same injury is required to define the prognosis of this injury List of abbreviations MRI: Magnetic resonance imaging Unay et ... anatomical studies of this ligament This case was the first clinical description suggesting a mechanical role for the meniscofibular ligament Pain was considerably reduced after year of conservative...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... design, and the subjective assessment instrument It is not possible to draw a firm conclusion as to the relative importance of fasciectomy versus neurolysis, since dissection of the SAN was necessary ... Insomnia 10 10 29 Weakness 11 26 Stiffness 1 12 28 Calculations based on patients' assessments (VAS; 0% = no improvement, 100% = complete improvement) Whereas 27 patients reported stiffness as ... patients 12-18 months after the operation Pain 30 Headache 27 Sleep deprivation 29 Weakness 26 Stiffness 27 Statistical analysis Student 's t-test for paired samples was used for the analysis of...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... traction-injuries associated with an acute onset of the symptoms and poor prognosis, whereas the presence of a clavicle fracture in such cases is much less important [1,2] In 1991, Della Santa described, ... been removed but is almost resorbed now nerve leading to the working hypothesis of a lesion of the musculocutaneus nerve The neurologist s assessment showed that there were no signs of atrophy With ... plexus injuries are caused by bone fragments after a clavicle fracture [4] We assume that in this case both - the sensible as well as the motoric - parts of the musculocutaneus nerve as well as...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... with a separate stitch An anastomosis to the pancreatic head was unfavorable in this case as the rupture was so proximal that a telescoping anastomosis was not possible The pancreatic body was mobilized ... duct-to-mucosa anastomosis was finished by single stitches, the transpancreatic stitches were anchored to the ventral part of the jejunum and this resulted in “sandwiching” of the pancreas within ... operations In this technique, transpancreatic sutures are used because they can be anchored to the jejunal wall and not within the pancreas; this is advantageous when the pancreas is soft, as was the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:20

... was able to bear weight and mobilize with a stick Some stiffness in both ankle joints continued as residual symptoms, for which physiotherapy was continued Discussion The Achilles tendon is the ... use of steroids and fluoroquinolones Conclusion This case report aims to increase the awareness of the risk of this rare condition in patients who are started on steroids and fluoroquinolones ... tendon is the tendinous extension of three muscles in the lower leg: the gastrocnemius, the soleus and the plantaris It is the thickest and strongest tendon in the body It is inserted into the middle...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:21

... patients with uremia The various systemic diseases that pre-dispose people to quadriceps tendon rupture include rheumatoid arthritis, arteriosclerosis, diabetes mellitus, systemic lupus erythematosus ... erythematosus (SLE), primary and secondary hyperparathyroidism, gout, tuberculosis, vasculitis, and steroid injections to the tendons [3,4] Few cases of simultaneous quadriceps tendon and contralateral patellar ... quadriceps tendon rupture usually occurs after trauma in the sixth or seventh decade of life The sites of rupture are classified as the musculotendinous, mid-tendinous, and osseotendinous junctions...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:22

... progesterone pessaries as soon as the pregnancy was confirmed by ultrasound at weeks Resutls of her nuchal translucency screening and first trimester anomaly scan were normal The woman presented ... elective caesarean section following a diagnosis of transverse lie at 39 weeks of gestation The baby was subsequently diagnosed with SCID and died at months due to this condition A specialist genetic ... progesterone pessaries was discontinued Serial specialist ultrasonography at 16, 18, 20 and 22 weeks confirmed a normally grown male fetus with no obvious structural defects The placenta was posterior...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:21

... cases (49%), followed by Pseudomonas aeruginosa (10%), Brucella melitensis (9%), Escherichia coli (5%) and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (3%) Most cases of Pseudomonas pyarthrosis affecting the sternoclavicular ... Furthermore, various distant sites of infection have been described: urinary and respiratory tract infections, pericarditis and intra-abdominal abscess Staphylococcus aureus is responsible for the ... published a comprehensive review of 180 cases [1] Sternoclavicular arthritis accounted for 1% of all cases of septic arthritis Common risk factors included intravenous drug use (21%), distant site...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 19:21

... 26.5 lbs fat Lean body mass 152.5 lbs Weight loss: 21 lbs Fat lost 9.5 lbs Lean body mass lost: 11.5 By judging his success in terms of body composition instead of scale weight, it becomes clear ... leave all the guys' jaws on the floor I am a fitness magazine success story When my success story is published, one of the star fitness photographers is calling me for a photo shoot and including ... You are compromising your results in both departments if you set muscle gain and fat loss as simultaneous goals Advertising for supplements and weight loss products has brainwashed many people...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 01:22

... suspension was sonicated, on ice, using six 30 s bursts per 10 g of cell paste The suspension was cooled on ice for 30–60 s between bursts The pH was adjusted to 7.4 using m Tris base and the sonicated ... forms of enolase The loss of activity observed in most studies [23–25] on dissociation of enolase may be the result of changes in other regions of this same loop In a study of the pressure dissociation ... demonstrated that pressure dissociation and inactivation of yeast enolase is a multistep process The first step, dissociation of the dimer into monomers, is accompanied by small changes in the UV spectrum...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 06:20

... Nucleocytoplasmic translocation of muscle glycogen synthase A Fig Phosphorylation sites in HsMGS and its mutated forms (A) The grey bar represents HsMGS with the relative positions of the known phosphorylation ... pEGFP– HsMGSDCT3 pEGFP–HsMGSDCT3 was constructed by mutagenesis of pEGFP–HsMGS, replacing the codon corresponding to Ser641 (the phosphorylation site 3a) by a stop codon pEGFP–HsMGS was digested ... Nucleocytoplasmic translocation of muscle glycogen synthase E Cid et al A B C D E F G Fig NES, NLS and Glc6P desensitized mutants of HsMGS (A) The relative positions of the putative NLS and NES sequences,...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 22:20

... RESULTS AND DISCUSSION In situ pressure-induced changes in spectrum and the centre of spectral mass of the intrinsic ¯uorescence of ATP-G-actin Following pressure increase, a red shift in the spectra ... a 1% solution of 6.6 for ATP-G-actin [20] High pressure apparatus High pressure devices used for this study consisted of a thermostated high pressure vessel equipped with sapphire windows and ... placed inside the vessel Fluorescence spectroscopy Fluorescence measurements were made in a Hitachi F2000 ¯uorospectrophotometer, inside which the high-pressure vessel was placed Temperature was maintained...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 00:21

... CARP, which was shown to be the first MARP whose expression increases in response to exercise in skeletal muscle [30], was not assessed as a substrate The structure of CARP comprises several ankyrin-like ... gene expression regulators [17,18] Passive stretch also induces a subcellular redistribution of the MARPs, suggesting a titinN2A-mediated link between stress signals and gene expression [18] ... mgÆkg)1, respectively), the skin surrounding the TA was dissected, a glass cover-slide was positioned on the exposed muscle and the fluorescence was observed using a confocal microscope (DM-IRBE;...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 21:20

... amounts of heterotrimers expressed in bacteria or mammalian cells were used, as estimated by western blot (B) (D) Western blot analysis of AMPK a2b2c3 complexes expressed in E coli using antibodies ... Witters LA, Depinho RA & Cantley LC (2004) The tumor suppressor LKB1 kinase directly activates AMPactivated kinase and regulates apoptosis in response to energy stress Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 101, ... CBS domains form energy-sensing modules whose binding of adenosine ligands is disrupted by disease mutations J Clin Invest 113, 274–284 Kemp BE (2004) Bateman domains and adenosine derivatives...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 08:20

... associated with a similar increase in Myod1 expression These results suggested that miR-206 expression contributes to the chronic pathology observed in the mdx diaphragm by repressing expression ... and muscle pathohistological aspects) Muscle biopsies from VL of female and males have been used as control samples (VL = Vastus Lateralis; M = Male; F = Female; * = Phosphatase activity present ... autophagy is active.) mir-206 (Assay n 4373092), hsa- mir-181a (Assay n 4373117), hsa- mir-181b (Assay n 4373116), hsa- mir181c (Assay n 4373115), hsa- mir-133a (Assay n 4373142), hsa- mir-133b (Assay...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... comprises intrinsic muscle resistance and reflex mediated stiffness Neuromuscular modelling is subsequently applied to identify the muscle visco-elasticity i.e intrinsic resistance including muscle ... external perturbation signals and subsequent closed loop system identification is a powerful tool to assess systems with an intact peripheral reflex feedback loop, as is the case in stroke [14] A haptic ... viscous muscle properties and velocity sensitive stretch reflexes Furthermore, measurements should be task defined, as passive measurements are likely not related to the active system state [2,13]...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20