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Our aim was to set up a method to examine the behavior of these vesicles in vivo....
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PMID: 21609754
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Calcium tetany is a poorly defined disease of broiler breeder hens that results from acute hypocalcemia. It is characterized by impaired mobility, increased mortality, and absence of gross lesions that would explain the impaired mobility. To evaluate if hens with impaired mobility ha...
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PMID: 22017028
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We show that EPS-producing cells selectively benefit their clonemates and gain a dramatic advantage in competition against an isogenic EPS-deficient strain. However, this advantage carries an ecological cost beyond the energetic requirement for EPS production: EPS-producing cells are impaired for di...
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PMID: 21825170
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Finite-element analysis was used to investigate the extent of bias in the ichnological fossil record attributable to body mass. Virtual tracks were simulated for four dinosaur taxa of different sizes (Struthiomimus, Tyrannosaurus, Brachiosaurus and Edmontosaurus), in a range of subst...
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PMID: 21233145
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The incidence of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury remains high, and there is a need for simple, cost effective methods to identify athletes at a higher risk for ACL injury. Wearable measurement systems offer potential methods to assess the risk of ACL injury during jumping tasks. The objective...
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PMID: 21823747
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The population size, age-class structure, and movement of the American cockroach, Periplaneta americana (L.) (Dictyoptera: Blattidae), were studied in three sewers in Penang, Malaysia, from September 2008 to October 2009. Eighteen to 20 glass-jar traps (two per manhole) were deployed for a 24-h perio...
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PMID: 21845938
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Object The study aimed to verify the safety and feasibility of applying acidic fibroblast growth factor (aFGF) with fibrin glue in combination with surgical neurolysis for nonacute spinal cord injury. Methods This open-label, prospective, uncontrolled human clinical trial recruited 6...
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PMID: 21663406
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We hypothesised that tonic epidural spinal cord stimulation can modulate spinal circuitry in human beings into a physiological state that enables sensory input from standing and stepping movements to serve as a source of neural control to undertake these tasks.
A 23-year-old man who...
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PMID: 21601270
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In obstruent consonants, a major constriction in the upper vocal tract yields an increase in intraoral pressure (P(io)). Phonation requires that subglottal pressure (P(sub)) exceed P(io) by a threshold value, so as the transglottal pressure reaches the threshold, phonation will cease. This work inves...
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PMID: 21568425
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In architectural acoustics, noise control and environmental noise, there are often steady-state signals for which it is necessary to measure the spatial average, sound pressure level inside rooms. This requires using fixed microphone positions, mechanical scanning devices, or manual scanning. In comp...
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PMID: 21568406
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We present a method to correct respiratory motion blurring in PET/CT imaging using internal-external (INTEX) motion correlation. The internal motion of a known tumor is derived from respiratory-gated PET images; this internal motion is then correlated with external respiratory signals to determine t...
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PMID: 21776808
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We show here that establishment of select CNS longitudinal tracts and formation of precise mechanosensory afferent innervation to the same CNS region are coordinately regulated by the secreted semaphorins Sema-2a and Sema-2b. Both Sema-2a and Sema-2b utilize the same neuronal receptor, plexin B (Ple...
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PMID: 21521614
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To describe daily, hourly, and animal-to-animal effects on lying behavior in steers.
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PMID: 21453147
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To analyze and evaluate the necessity and use of dynamic gating techniques for compensation of baseline shift during respiratory-gated radiation therapy of lung tumors.
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PMID: 21626924
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We developed a method of estimating the percentage of the δ-wave included in the EEG from the transinformation. The comb filtering technique was used to obtain accurate transinformation. We applied the proposed method to young normal subjects to evaluate the method. As a result, the correlation bet...
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PMID: 21134803
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We study the response of one-dimensional diffusive systems, consisting of particles interacting via symmetric or asymmetric exclusion, to time-periodic driving from two reservoirs coupled to the ends. The dynamical response of the system can be characterized in terms of the structure factor. We find...
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PMID: 21517462
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We developed assays that quantify noxious heat avoidance in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and used them to investigate the genetic basis of this behavior. First, we screened mutants for 18 TRP channel genes (including all TRPV orthologs) and found only minor defects in heat avoidance in single...
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PMID: 21368276
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At 1.5 T, real-time MRI of joint movement has been shown to be feasible. However, 7 T, provides higher SNR and thus an improved potential for parallel imaging acceleration. The purpose of this work was to build an open, U-shaped eight-channel transmit/receive microstrip coil for 7 T MRI to enable hig...
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PMID: 21520828
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The objective of this study is to investigate the feasibility of detecting and quantifying 3D cerebrovascular wall motion from a single 3D rotational x-ray angiography (3DRA) acquisition within a clinically acceptable time and computing from the estimated motion field for the further biomechanical mo...
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PMID: 21520841
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Micro-CT imaging of animal hearts typically requires a double gating procedure because scans during a breath-hold are not possible due to the long scan times and the high respiratory rates, Simultaneous respiratory and cardiac gating can either be done prospectively or retrospectively. True five-dime...
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PMID: 21520853
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We provide evidence in budding yeast that rapid chromosome movements affect homolog pairing and recombination. We found that csm4Δ strains, which are defective for telomere-led chromosome movements, show defects in homolog pairing as measured in a "one-dot/two-dot tetR-GFP" assay; however, pairing...
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PMID: 21339478
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We recorded the activity of 1019 neurons while twelve subjects performed self-initiated finger movement. We report progressive neuronal recruitment over ∼1500 ms before subjects report making the decision to move. We observed progressive increase or decrease in neuronal firing rate, particularly i...
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PMID: 21315264
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We propose an approach to generate a mean motion model of the lung based on thoracic 4D computed tomography (CT) data of different patients to extend the motion modeling capabilities. Our modeling process consists of three steps: an intra-subject registration to generate subject-specific motion mode...
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PMID: 20876013
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We propose an extended grammar approach to modeling and recognizing complex visual events. First, motion trajectories as original features are transformed into a set of basic motion patterns of a single moving object, namely, primitives (terminals) in the grammar system. Then, a Minimum Description...
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PMID: 21193807
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We present a network simulation of the tangential cells, comprising most of the neurons studied so far (22 on each hemisphere) with all the known connectivity between them. On their dendrite, model neurons receive input from a retinotopic array of Reichardt-type motion detectors. Model neurons exhib...
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PMID: 21305019
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Although habitat use reflects a dynamic process, most studies assess habitat use statically as if an animal's successively recorded locations reflected a point rather than a movement process. By relying on the activity time between successive locations instead of the local density of individual locat...
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PMID: 21297869
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We measured the three-dimensional distribution of the free end of a tethered DNA molecule. The distribution along the axial z direction (perpendicular to the surface) is found to be Rayleigh-like, in agreement with wormlike chain and freely jointed chain simulations. Using these simulations, we show...
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PMID: 21405722
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We propose that this is the rheology that the body strives for in order to minimize energy consumption. Predicted optimal rheologies are consistent with results from previous experimental studies when reasonable model parameters are chosen....
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PMID: 21405727
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We compared silk plasticity (defined as variation in the properties of silk spun by a spider under different conditions) between three spider clades in relation to their anatomy and silk biochemistry. We found that silk plasticity exists in RTA clade and orbicularian spiders, two clades that differ...
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PMID: 21818328
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We measured changes in bacterial phage-resistance and potential virulence traits, and determined the pathogenicity of all bacterial selection lines in the Parasemia plantaginis insect model in vivo. Selection at 37°C increased bacterial motility and pathogenicity but only in the absence of phages....
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PMID: 21423610
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We report the regulatory response of C. crescentus to carbon starvation, based on combined high-throughput proteome and transcriptome analyses. Our results identify cell cycle changes in gene expression in response to carbon starvation that involve the prominent role of the FixK FNR/CAP family trans...
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PMID: 21494595
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Pseudopods are cell extensions used for movement. The direction and trajectory of cell movement depend on how cells extend pseudopods. Experimental data show that new pseudopods are frequently formed by the splitting of an existing pseudopod, often as a series of left-right extension...
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PMID: 21304158
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Live intraocular nematode is a rare occurrence. Nematode can migrate actively within the eye, creating visual symptoms and damaging ocular tissue.
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PMID: 21679403
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We present an image-based approach for cardiac phase retrieval from coronary IVUS sequences without an ECG signal. A signal reflecting cardiac motion is computed by exploring the image intensity local mean evolution. The signal is filtered by a band-pass filter centered at the main cardiac frequency...
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PMID: 21244975
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Bone density influenced implant displacement. The loading character (axial versus oblique) significantly influenced implant displacement in soft cancellous bone block specimens only. However, the limitation of the measured displacement values to an in vitro application that did not represent the com...
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PMID: 21483878
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To assess movement of ulnar segments radiographically, following proximal and midshaft ulnar osteotomy or ostectomy after arthroscopic treatment for dogs diagnosed with medial coronoid disease.
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PMID: 21822527
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We focus here on the question of initial adhesion, the mechanisms of which are still far from being fully understood. Recently, the frontier between microbiologists and physicists has become increasingly permeable, boosting implementation of new methodological approaches for better elucidating the i...
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PMID: 21557073
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Left ventricular motion estimation is very important for diagnosing cardiac abnormality. One of the popular techniques, optical flow technique, promises useful results for motion quantification. However, optical flow technique often failed to provide smooth vector field due to the complexity of cardi...
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PMID: 21431586
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The ability to localize endpoints of sound image trajectories was studied in comparison with stationary sound image positions. Sound images moved either gradually or abruptly to the left or right from the head midline. Different types of sound image movement were simulated by manipulating the interau...
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PMID: 21861385
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Cervical extrication collars are applied to millions of blunt trauma victims despite the lack of any evidence that a collar can protect against secondary injuries to the cervical spine. Cadaver studies support that in the presence of a dissociative injury, substantial motion can occur within the occ...
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PMID: 21217496
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INTRODUCTION: Psychomotor re-education represents a multidimensional therapeutic approach in dealing with children and adults with psychomotor disorders. Therapeutic programs should be based on individual differences, abilities and capabilities, relationships, feelings and individual developmental ne...
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PMID: 21548271
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We have developed the methodology for the investigations of the dynamics of lysine NH(3)(+) groups by NMR spectroscopy and computation. By using (1)H-(15)N heteronuclear correlation experiments optimized for (15)NH(3)(+) moieties, we have analyzed the dynamic behavior of individual lysine NH(3)(+) g...
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PMID: 21186799
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We demonstrate a general nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopic approach in obtaining high-resolution (17)O (spin-5/2) NMR spectra for biological macromolecules in aqueous solution. This approach, termed quadrupole central transition (QCT) NMR, is based on the multiexponential relaxation pro...
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PMID: 21175170
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Andreas H Ratje,
Justus Loerke,
Aleksandra Mikolajka,
Matthias Brünner,
Peter W Hildebrand,
Agata L Starosta,
Alexandra Dönhöfer,
Sean R Connell,
Paola Fucini,
Thorsten Mielke,
Paul C Whitford,
José N Onuchic,
Yanan Yu,
Karissa Y Sanbonmatsu,
Roland K Hartmann,
Pawel A Penczek,
Daniel N Wilson and
Christian M T Spahn
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We use multiparticle cryoelectron microscopy analysis to resolve two previously unseen subpopulations within Thermus thermophilus EF-G-ribosome complexes at subnanometre resolution, one of them with a partly translocated tRNA. Comparison of these substates reveals that translocation of tRNA on the 3...
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PMID: 21124459
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We have performed multiple molecular dynamics simulations of the ligand binding core of four glutamate bound iGluR structures (GluA2, GluK1, GluK2, and GluN2A) and one apo structure (GluA2). We find that the water positions are reproduced from the simulations, but they also reveal that all but one w...
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PMID: 20856958
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The resolution in the Catphan phantom (CTP528 high-resolution module) was 3 lines/cm. The spatial accuracy was within 2-3 mm. The diameters of different tumor shapes in the thorax phantom were determined within an accuracy of 1.6 mm. The signal-to-noise ratio was 68% less than that with a 180°-kV s...
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PMID: 20554124
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Saddle fit is well recognised as an important factor for the health and performance of riding horses. However, only few studies have addressed general effects of different saddle construction details within a group of horses.
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PMID: 21059052
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Transcallosal inhibition from the contralesional to the ipsilesional motor cortex correlated positively with motor function of the paretic hand; in contrast, transcallosal inhibition to the ipsilesional motor cortex correlated negatively with mirror activity of the paretic hand in both cortical and...
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PMID: 21031294
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We previously developed a videographic drop-jump test to measure overall lower limb alignment in the coronal plane as a screening tool to detect such an abnormal (valgus) position on landing. A neuromuscular retraining program developed for female athletes was shown to be effective in improving lowe...
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PMID: 20940643
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The purpose of this study was to examine the activation patterns of the gluteal muscle group and their relationship to pelvis and torso kinematics throughout the high-school pitching motion. A single group, repeated-measures design was used to collect gluteus maximus and gluteus medius muscle activi...
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PMID: 20664365
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The aim of this study was to examine whether ground reaction force (GRF) side differences were transmitted and related to bar end power output asymmetries during hang power clean (HPC) performance and whether progressive loading would intensify this effect. Differences between the dominant (D) and n...
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PMID: 20940641
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The purpose of the study was to evaluate the electromyographic (EMG) activity of muscles in curl-up exercises depending on the position of the upper and lower extremities. From the perspective of biomechanics, different positions of the extremities result in shifting the center of gravity and changi...
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PMID: 20940638
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