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  • 1
    ISSN: 1279-8517
    Keywords: Skull ; Craniometry ; Anthropology ; 3-D image ; Helical CT
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract To make a digital image database of human craniology, we optimized the three-dimensional (3-D) images of 29 dried human skull specimens by helical computed tomography (CT). For the verification of the quantitative exactitude of these image data, we manually measured nine items of direct distances between standard anthropologic points on each skull and the corresponding distances projected on the CT monitor by specifying the respective points. The results obtained by the two methods of manual and CT measurements were compared and statistically analyzed. The CT measurements were so exact that the lower limit of correlation coefficients (95% of the confidence interval) between the two results was more than 0.8 in six items; i.e., maximal cranial length and breadth, minimal frontal breadth, bizygomatic breadth, distance between ectomolares and nasion-basion length. In contrast, the CT results were less well correlated with the manual measurements of three items; i.e., distance between bilateral mastoidales, total facial height, and nasal breadth. We concluded that the qualitative representation of 3-D CT images was adequate, although some quantitative data may be incorrect. The inaccuracy is suspected to be due to the difficulty in specifying the standard points on the CT images, and due to the differences in measurement procedures between the direct and projected distances.
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1279-8517
    Keywords: Skull ; Craniometry ; Anthropology ; 3-D image ; Helical CT
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé Afin d'établir une banque informatisée de données en crâniologie humaine, nous avons recueilli les images tridimensionnelles, de 29 crânes secs, obtenues par scanner hélicoïdal. Pour vérifier les données obtenues, nous avons mesuré manuellement 9 longueurs situées entre les repères crâniologiques classiques sur chaque crâne et les distances correspondantes entre les points analogues sur la console du scanner. Les résultats obtenus par les 2 méthodes de mesure manuelle et par scanner sont comparés et analysés statistiquement. Les mesures scanner sont situées à la limite inférieure de corrélation entre les 2 résultats (95% d'intervalle de confiance) et supérieures à 0.8 dans 6 mesures : la longueur et la largeur maximales crâniennes, la largeur minimale frontale, la largeur bizygomatique, la distance entre les faces externes des molaires et la longueur nasion-basion. Par contre, les mesures scanner sont moins concordantes avec les résultats manuels dans 3 mesures : distance intermastoïdienne, hauteur faciale totale et largeur nasale. Nous en concluons que la représentation qualitative des images scanner est correcte, même si quelques données chiffrées sont imprécises. Les causes d'erreurs sont, semble t-il, dues à la difficulté de repérer les points crâniologiques précis sur les images scanner, ainsi qu'à la différence des techniques de mesure entre une donnée directe et une en projection.
    Notes: Summary To make a digital image database of human craniology, we optimized the three-dimensional (3-D) images of 29 dried human skull specimens by helical computed tomography (CT). For the verification of the quantitative exactitude of these image data, we manually measured nine items of direct distances between standard anthropologic points on each skull and the corresponding distances projected on the CT monitor by specifying the respective points. The results obtained by the two methods of manual and CT measurements were compared and statistically analyzed. The CT measurements were so exact that the lower limit of correlation coefficients (95% of the confidence interval) between the two results was more than 0.8 in six items; i.e., maximal cranial length and breadth, minimal frontal breadth, bizygomatic breadth, distance between ectomolares and nasion-basion length. In contrast, the CT results were less well correlated with the manual measurements of three items; i.e., distance between bilateral mastoidales, total facial height, and nasal breadth. We concluded that the qualitative representation of 3-D CT images was adequate, although some quantitative data may be incorrect. The inaccuracy is suspected to be due to the difficulty in specifying the standard points on the CT images, and due to the differences in measurement procedures between the direct and projected distances.
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  • 3
    ISSN: 1432-1424
    Keywords: Key words: Inward-rectifier K+ channel — Noise analysis — Cardiac myocytes — Polyamine — Mg2+— Ba2+
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Abstract. Although outward current through inward-rectifier K+ channels has been observed in the whole-cell mode of the patch-clamp technique, no outward unitary current in single-channel studies has been recorded with the physiological ionic conditions. Hence, the relationship between single-channel activities and the inward rectification of the whole-cell current has been poorly understood. Therefore, characteristics of inward-rectifier K+ channels in guinea-pig ventricular myocytes were assessed by the noise analysis of the K+ current using the whole-cell patch clamp method. Partial blockade of the inward-rectifier K+ current by Ba2+ was used to obtain different levels of mean current and current fluctuation as needed for variance-to-mean analysis. The plot of variance of current fluctuation against mean currents was well fitted by theoretical parabolic curves, and the unitary conductance, the open probability, and the density of functional channels were deduced. The unitary conductance of the inward-rectifier K+ channel exhibited an inward-rectification, although the channel open probability and the density of functional channels were not much different at various holding potentials used. The unitary conductance was not changed when the intrapipette concentration of Mg2+ was reduced, but tended to be smaller when the pipette contained high Mg2+ concentration. Spermine also tended to reduce the outward unitary conductances, although the reduction was not statistically significant. These results suggest that the inward rectification in the whole-cell current was due to the inward-rectifying property of the unitary conductance of the K+ channels. Inward rectification of the unitary conductance may be caused by blocking of the channels by both Mg2+ and polyamines.
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  • 4
    ISSN: 1432-069X
    Keywords: Lectin ; Paget's disease ; Dolichos biflorus agglutinin (DBA) ; Light and electron microscopy ; Epidermis ; Cancer
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Lectin-binding pattern in extramammary Paget's disease was studied using seven different lectins (Con A, WGA, RCA-I, PNA, SBA, DBA, and UEA-I) by means of the horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-labeling method. By light microscopy it was observed that Con A, WGA, RCA-I, and DBA stained almost all the extramammary Paget cells, while PNA, SBA, and UEA-I stained only some of them. Normal keratinocytes and tumor cells from other diseases such as mammary Paget's disease, malignant melanoma, squamous cell carcinoma, basal cell epithelioma, Bowen's disease, and seborrheic keratosis were positively stained with Con A, WGA, and RCA-I, but not with DBA except in some of the mammary Paget's cells. By electron microscopy it was observed that DBA stained the cell membrane and the Golgi apparatus of the extramammary Paget cells. The present results suggest that DBA is a specific lectin for glycoconjugates in extramammary Paget cells.
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  • 5
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    Electronic Resource
    Springer
    Archives of dermatological research 279 (1987), S. 198-203 
    ISSN: 1432-069X
    Keywords: Aromatic retinoid ; Langerhans cells ; Ia antigens ; Ia-reactive cloned T cells
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary The effect of orally administered aromatic retinoid (Ro 10-9359) on murine epidermal Langerhans cells (LC) was studied in vivo and in vitro. Daily administration of retinoid caused a transient increase in LC density, as determined by staining for Ia antigens, during the first few days of treatment and thereafter a continuing decrease that reached a maximum at 2 weeks. In addition, the morphology and location in the epidermis had been altered. When the treatment was continued to 4 weeks, the density of LC returned to normal. The Ia-antigen-presenting function of epidermal cells to an allo-Ia-reactive cloned T cell line was elevated at all stages of retinoid treatment examined. This elevation did not correlate with the density of histochemically stainable Ia+ LC. These findings suggest that orally administered retinoid profoundly alters the functional capacity of Ia+ LC.
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  • 6
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    Electronic Resource
    Springer
    Acta neurochirurgica 140 (1998), S. 715-719 
    ISSN: 0942-0940
    Keywords: Keywords: Planum sphenoidale; supradiaphragmatic region; transsphenoidal approach; tuberculum sellae.
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary  The Classic transsphenoidal approach may not afford sufficient exposure for a supradiaphragmatic tumour adjacent to the pituitary stalk. Various transcranial approaches have been utilized to access such a lesion with adequate results. This report describes a less invasive technique, termed “transsphenoidal-transtuberculum sellae approach”. This modified transsphenoidal approach requires a bone ablation of the tuberculum sellae, the limbus sphenoidalis, and a portion of the planum sphenoidale, in addition to an opening of the anterior floor of the sella turcica. The dura mater on the tuberculum sellae and the pituitary fossa is sectioned with a bilateral obliteration of the anterior intercavernous sinus. The anterior pituitary gland is not necessarily resected. The optic chiasm, optic nerves, pituitary stalk, and tuber cinereum can be directly observed, making it possible to safely dissect a lesion from these structures. Utilizing this approach, we have removed 14 supradiaphragmatic tumours without complications and dealt with other lesions such as optic nerve injuries or cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea, leaving pituitary function intact. The transsphenoidal-transtuberculum sellae approach for accessing small supradiaphragmatic tumours is a useful procedure requiring only a minor modification of the classic transsphenoidal technique.
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  • 7
    ISSN: 0942-0940
    Keywords: Ischaemic cerebrovascular disease ; unruptured intraeranial aneurysm ; surgical indications ; results ; subarachnoid haemorrhage
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Out of 3435 patients with ischaemic cerebrovascular disease 2540 cases were investigated using cerebral angiography. In 127 of them (5%) aneurysms were found, but without clinical evidence of subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH). 45 cases were operated upon and 82 were treated conservatively. Five of these 82 cases (6%) suffered from SAH 3 months to 10 years (mean interval 5,6 years) after the angiographic diagnosis. Four of these 5 patients with SAH died. Among the 45 surgical cases follow-up was uneventful in 29 (64%). The other 16 cases postoperatively showed neurological deterioration (36%), which was transient in 6 but with only minor improvement in 10. Of these 10 cases 2 died from cerebral infarction related to intra-operative temporary vascular occlusion respectively myocardial infarction. Thus surgical mortality was 4% and permanent morbidity 18%. Causes of postoperative neurological deterioration were partly related to general arteriosclerotic changes and special fragility of the ischaemic brain, and partly to operative technique (excessive brain retraction, damage to cortical veins, occlusion of major vessels or damage to perforators, temporary artery occlusion). Apparently in cases with ischaemic cerebrovascular diseases operative procedures, which in other cases as a rule are well tolerated, may produce harmful effects. Therefore, in these cases, the indication for operative treatment of so far silent aneurysms should be restricted to patients who are in good general condition with longer life expectancy as far as the vascular disease is concerned, and without major neurological deficit. Furthermore, the operative technique should be especially gentle and atraumatic.
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  • 8
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    s.l. ; Stafa-Zurich, Switzerland
    Materials science forum Vol. 561-565 (Oct. 2007), p. 535-538 
    ISSN: 1662-9752
    Source: Scientific.Net: Materials Science & Technology / Trans Tech Publications Archiv 1984-2008
    Topics: Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
    Notes: Grain growth behavior in Al2O3 with a small amount of ZrO2 (〈 5 vol%) was examined.Grain growth of Al2O3 was retarded by zirconia particles, despite the small amount of addedzirconia. The fraction of the zirconia particles embedded within alumina grains (intragranularzirconia particles) increased with decreasing zirconia content and increasing sintering temperature.Grain growth inhibition of alumina in the Al2O3-ZrO2 showed good agreement with the predictionof modified Zener’s pinning effect by the zirconia particles on grain boundaries
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  • 9
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Amsterdam : Elsevier
    Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 185 (1992), S. 567-576 
    ISSN: 0006-291X
    Source: Elsevier Journal Backfiles on ScienceDirect 1907 - 2002
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Physics
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  • 10
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    Electronic Resource
    Amsterdam : Elsevier
    Habitat International 14 (1990), S. 283-285 
    ISSN: 0197-3975
    Source: Elsevier Journal Backfiles on ScienceDirect 1907 - 2002
    Topics: Geography , Sociology
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