A single case report of healing through specific martial art therapy: comparison of MRI to clinical resolution in severe cervical stenosis: a case report.

Objectives: A 76-year-old patient with chronic and severe spinal cord compression secondary to cervical stenosis, a cervical osteophyte, and a herniated intervertebral cervical disk had lasting resolution of symptoms after completing a specific, martial art-based, physical therapy program. We wanted to determine if there were structural changes in the cervical spine that could account for the prompt resolution of symptoms.

Design: A 76-year-old female completed 8 weeks of a specific, martial art-based, physical therapy.

Cadmium-induced attenuation of coronary blood flow in the perfused rat heart.

The present studies were undertaken to test the hypothesis that cadmium alters myocardial metabolism, producing effects on coronary blood flow. Hearts isolated from adult, male Sprague-Dawley rats were control-equilibrated and then treated with Cd (0.1-100 microM).

Inhibition of rat heart mitochondrial respiration by cadmium chloride.

Mitochondria were isolated from hearts obtained from adult male Sprague-Dawley rats by two-part differential centrifugation of heart homogenates. Time-dependent (0-120 sec) and concentration-dependent (0-10 microM CdCl2) effects of cadmium on pyruvate-malate-supported state 3 and state 4 respiration were measured in a constant temperature reaction chamber at 37 degrees C, according to established procedures. The ID50 for cadmium chloride on state 3 respiration was determined to be 4.