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ARIX and PHOX2B polymorphisms in patients with congenital superior oblique muscle palsy.
To identify ARIX gene and PHOX2B gene polymorphisms in patients with congenital superior oblique muscle palsy, 3 exons of the ARIX gene and PHOX2B gene were sequenced by genomic DNA amplification with polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and direct sequencing in 31 patients with congenital superior oblique muscle palsy and in 54 normal individuals. A family with a father and one daughter each having congenital superior oblique muscle palsy was also included in this study. Eleven patients with congenital superior oblique muscle palsy had heterozygous nucleotide changes in the ARIX gene, including 4 patients reported on previously. One patient with atrophy of the superior oblique muscle had a new change of T-4G in the promoter region of the ARIX gene. The other 6 patients had a heterozygous nucleotide change of G153A in the 5'-untranslated region (UTR) of the exon 1 of the ARIX gene. These nucleotide changes of the ARIX gene, taken together, had a significant association with congenital superior oblique muscle palsy(P = 0.0022). One patient and 5 patients had heterozygous nucleotide changes of A1106 C and A1121 C in exon 3 of the PHOX2B gene, respectively, while these changes were absent in the normal individuals. Two patients had both the G153A change in the 5'-UTR of exon 1 of the ARIX gene and the A1121 C change in exon 3 of the PHOX2B gene. In conclusion, the polymorphisms of the ARIX gene and PHOX2B gene may be genetic risk factors for the development of congenital superior oblique muscle palsy.</p
Papillo-Choledochectomy in the Operative Management of Mucosal Neoplasms of the Periampullary Region
Two patients with mucosal cancer of the periampullary region were treated with papillocholedochectomy,
which entails removal of the papilla of Vater and the whole length of the common bile duct. The neoplasm is dissected out through the plane between the duodenal circular and longitudinal muscles, deep to the sphincter of Oddi and the fibromuscular layer of the bile duct. Pathological examination showed that cancer was confined to the mucosal layer without stromal invasion, and that the operation achieved radical cure. For mucosal cancer, papillo-choledochectomy is
an alternative to pancreatoduodenectomy, provided that repeated frozen-section studies confirm the
completeness of excision
A One Hand Drive Wheelchair with New Manipulation Mechanism Constructed by a Triple Ring and with Assist Functions
Search for T-violation in Neutrino Oscillation with the Use of Muon Polarization at a Neutrino Factory
A possibility to search for T-violation in neutrino oscillation with the use
of muon polarization is studied. The sensitivity to T-violation is examined
with different muon polarization as a function of muon energy and long-baseline
distances.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figure
Summary report of MINSIS workshop in Madrid
Recent developments on tau detection technologies and the construction of
high intensity neutrino beams open the possibility of a high precision search
for non-standard {\mu} - {\tau} flavour transition with neutrinos at short
distances. The MINSIS - Main Injector Non-Standard Interaction Search- is a
proposal under discussion to realize such precision measurement. This document
contains the proceedings of the workshop which took place on 10-11 December
2009 in Madrid to discuss both the physics reach as well as the experimental
requirements for this proposal.Comment: Proceedings of the MINSIS Workshop, Dec 10-11, 2009 in Madrid. 15
pages late
Reconstruction-Dependent Recovery from Anorexia and Time-Related Recovery of Regulatory Ghrelin System in Gastrectomized Rats
Gastrectomy reduces food intake and body weight (BW) hampering recovery of physical conditions. It also reduces plasma levels of stomach-derived orexigenic ghrelin. This study explored changes in orexigenic ghrelin system in rats receiving total gastrectomy with Billroth II (B-II) or Roux-en-Y (R-Y) method. Feeding and BW were reduced by gastrectomy and subsequently recovered to a greater extent with R-Y than B-II while plasma ghrelin decreased similarly. At postoperative 12th week, ghrelin contents increased in the duodenum and pancreas, plasma ghrelin levels increased upon fasting, and ghrelin injection promoted feeding but not in earlier periods. In summary, gastrectomized rats partially recover feeding and BW, in a reconstruction-dependent manner. At 12th week, ghrelin is upregulated in extra-stomach tissues, plasma ghrelin levels are physiologically regulated, and orexigenic effect of exogenous ghrelin is restored. This time-related recovery of ghrelin system may provide a strategy for promoting feeding, BW, and thereby physical conditions in gastrectomized patients
Diagnostic usefulness of the post-exercise systolic blood pressure response for the detection of coronary artery disease in patients with diabetes mellitus
金沢大学大学院医学系研究科Patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) often have a positive result on exercise testing despite a normal coronary arteriogram, which indicates that exercise-induced ST depression is not always an accurate indicator of the presence of coronary artery disease (CAD) in such patients. The present study evaluated the usefulness of the post-exercise systolic blood pressure (SBP) response for the detection of CAD in 47 consecutive patients with DM. Significant stenotic lesions were detected by angiography in 25 patients; 18 of these had true positive (TP) exercise testing results, and 7 had false negative (FN) results. No significant stenotic lesions were detected in the remaining 22 patients and of these 10 had true negative (TN) exercise testing results, and 12 had false positive (FP) results. The SBP ratio (SBP after 3 min of recovery divided by the SBP at peak exercise) was significantly higher in patients with coronary stenoses than in those without. Analysis of the relative cumulative frequency revealed that a SBP ratio greater than 0.87 was associated with significant stenoses. The sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of ST change combined with a SBP ratio greater than 0.87 for detecting stenoses in patients with DM were 68%, 82%, and 74%, respectively. These results suggest that calculating the SBP ratio, in combination with monitoring for ST depression, improves the accuracy of treadmill exercise testing for the detection of CAD in patients with DM
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