Schuldig landschap. Over de toeristische aantrekkingskracht van Baantjer, Wallander en Inspector Morse

De opnamelokaties van tv-detectives genieten een toenemende populariteit onder toeristen. In dit artikel wordt, op basis van een tekstuele analyse van ‘Baantjer’, ‘Inspector Morse’ en ‘Wallander’, onderzocht welke inhoudelijke kenmerken van deze tv-detectives mogelijk als ‘trigger’ fungeren. Uit de analyse blijkt dat plaats en beweging een centrale rol vervullen binnen de narratieve structuur van dit genre. Door zelf de lokaties te bezoeken, kunnen toeristen het spoor nalopen van hun geliefde detective om aldaar, vanuit een veilige positie, tijdelijk op te gaan in het schemergebied tussen fictie en werkelijkheid

Dry Needling for Spine Related Disorders: a Scoping Review

Introduction/Background: The depth and breadth of research on dry needling (DN) has not been evaluated specifically for symptomatic spine related disorders (SRD) from myofascial trigger points (TrP), disc, nerve and articular structures not due to serious pathologies. Current literature appears to support DN for treatment of TrP. Goals of this review include identifying research published on DN treatment for SRD, sites of treatment and outcomes studied. Methods: A scoping review was conducted following Levac et al.’s five part methodological framework to determine the current state of the literature regarding DN for patients with SRD. Results: Initial and secondary search strategies yielded 55 studies in the cervical (C) region (71.43%) and 22 in the thoracolumbar-pelvic (TLP) region (28.57%). Most were randomized controlled trials (60% in C, 45.45% in TLP) and clinical trials (18.18% in C, 22.78% in TLP). The most commonly treated condition was TrP for both the C and TLP regions. In the C region, DN was provided to 23 different muscles, with the trapezius as treatment site in 41.88% of studies. DN was applied to 31 different structures in the TLP region. In the C region, there was one treatment session in 23 studies (41.82%) and 2–6 treatments in 25 (45.45%%). For the TLP region, one DN treatment was provided in 8 of the 22 total studies (36.36%) and 2–6 in 9 (40.9%). The majority of experimental designs had DN as the sole intervention. For both C and TLP regions, visual analogue scale, pressure pain threshold and range of motion were the most common outcomes. Conclusion: For SRD, DN was primarily applied to myofascial structures for pain or TrP diagnoses. Many outcomes were improved regardless of diagnosis or treatment parameters. Most studies applied just one treatment which may not reflect common clinical practice. Further research is warranted to determine optimal treatment duration and frequency. Most studies looked at DN as the sole intervention. It is unclear whether DN alone or in addition to other treatment procedures would provide superior outcomes. Functional outcome tools best suited to tracking the outcomes of DN for SRD should be explored.https://doi.org/10.1186/s12998-020-00310-

Macroanatomical Investigation of Nasal Cavity (Cavum Nasi) and Innervation of This Region in Dog [Köpekte Burun Boşlugu (Cavum Nasi) ve Bu Bölgenin İnnervasyonunun Makroanatomik Olarak İncelenmesi]

In the present study, cadaver heads of 10 mongrel dogs utilised for student training in the Mehmet Akif Ersoy University Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Department of Anatomy Laboratory was used for macroanatomical examination of nasal cavity (cavum nasi) and innervation of this region. With the help of an electrical sawmill machine, cadaver heads were separated sagittally into two halves on the right side of the median line in order to avoid damage to the septum nasi. Left head halves were dissected and data were obtained. Measurements were made for concha nasalis dorsalis, concha nasalis media and concha nasalis ventralis in all materials. The mean and standard deviations of these measurements were calculated. It was found the nerves that are innervating the cavum nasi are nn. olfactorii, n. vomeronasalis, n. ethmoidalis and n. nasalis caudalis which were separated from n. ophtalmicus and n. maxillaris which are the branches of n. trigeminus. It was found that nerve fibres and n. vomeronasalis enter into the cavum nasi via foramina cribrosa. It was detected that n. ethmoidalis enters into the cavum cranii via foramen ethmoidale after leaving n. ciliaris and then runs dorsally and enters into the nasal cavity through foramina cribrosa. It was seen that n. nasalis caudalis enters into the nasal cavity through the foramen sphenopalatinum after leaving n. pterygopalatinus, a branch of n. maxillaris

The anti epileptic vigabatrin induces in the EEG of rats behaviour-independent increase of delta - and decrease of beta power

Item does not contain fulltextVigabatrin and diazepam both are GABAergic drugs. Vigabatrin enhances the concentration of endogenous GABA by inhibiting GABA-transaminase, while diazepam enhances the efficacy of the endogenous GABA present. As may be expected, the clinical effects of the two drugs overlap: e.g. both have anti-epileptic effects and both decrease the level of vigilance. The similarity of the effects on the EEG is however less clear. During slow-wave sleep, in drug-free rats, the EEG consists of high-voltage delta waves. Despite the induction of sleep, diazepam enhances the power of the high frequency beta band. This phenomenon is called pharmacological dissociation. In contrast, vigabatrin has been shown to slow down the EEG; the power in the delta and theta bands increases while that of the beta band decreases. However in those studies behavioural changes were not taken into consideration. The aim of the present study was to investigate, in the rat, the effect of vigabatrin on behaviour and on behaviour-related EEG