Gait patterns in above-knee amputee patients: hydraulic swing control vs constant-friction knee components.

Multiple displacement patterns, stride dimensions, and temporal components during slow, free-speed, and fast walking were compared in the same seven above-knee amputees using prostheses with constant-friction knee components and using hydraulic swing-control knee components. During walking with the hydraulic-type prostheses, the amputees showed a wider range of walking speeds, improvement in the equality of the durations of successive swing and stance phases, and greater uniformity of forward progression. Improvements toward normal were also seen in several of the displacement patterns of the prosthetic limb during walking with the hydraulic knee.

105 patients operated upon for cerebellopontine angle tumors - experience using combined approach and CO2 laser.

In Memphis, TN, we have treated surgically 105 patients with cerebellopontine angle tumors. In reporting that experience here, we place major emphasis on the use of two surgical aids: a combined surgical approach and the CO2 laser. Diagnostic techniques are also discussed, along with data management, postoperative results, and complications.

Characteristics of blood gas in response to iron treatment and exercise in iron-deficient and anemic subjects.

The effects of iron deficiency anemia and iron treatment on blood gas and acid-base balance at rest and during exercise were studied. Eight Sri Lankan males and 13 females were randomly divided into an iron treatment or placebo group. Their initial hemoglobin (Hb) levels were 6.

Kinematic and electromyographic patterns of Olympic race walkers.

The performance of two Olympic race walkers was studied during free-speed, fast, and race walking. Measurements of the stride and temporal components of gait, as well as the simultaneous displacement patterns of the body segments, and the electromyographic activity of muscles of the trunk and upper and lower limbs were recorded during the three walking speeds. During the testing, the race walkers achieved an average speed of 12.

Comparison of urinary N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase and urinary fibrin degradation products for diagnosis of rejection after renal transplantation.

A comparison was made of two established tests to see which was the better indicator of rejection after renal transplantation. Daily urine samples were assayed for excretion of N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase (NAG) and fibrin degradation products (FDP). Twenty-five rejection episodes were studied in 19 patients.

Neuroradiological detection of small and intracanalicular acoustic tumors: an emphasis on CO2 contrast-enhanced computed tomographic cisternography.

Seventy patients suspected clinically of having an acoustic tumor were evaluated using the computed tomographic (CT) scan as the initial neuroradiological procedure, followed by CO2 contrast CT cisternography in cases where the intravenous contrast-enhanced scan did not reveal any lesion. Forty-eight gas CT cisternograms revealed 10 small acoustic tumors, 2 of which were totally intracanalicular. The authors present a review of the basic CT anatomy of the temporal bone as it relates to acoustic tumors.

Anterolateral compared to posterior approach in total hip arthroplasty: differences in component positioning, hip strength, and hip motion.

In order to identify the functional advantages or disadvantages between the anterolateral and the posterior approaches to total hip arthroplasty, measurements of prosthetic position, hip-muscle strength, and hip joint mobility were made after Müller total hip arthroplasty without osteotomy in 52 patents operated through a posterior approach and 41 patients operated through an anterolateral approach. Men and women who had the posterior approach had less prosthetic component anteversion and longer neck lengths, with resultant more lateral and distal placement of the greater trochanter than groups with the anterolateral approach. Groups with the posterior approach had more normal hip abductor-muscle strength and more inward rotation on the operated side than group with the anterolateral approach.

Temperature Compensation of Circadian Period Length in Clock Mutants of Neurospora crassa.

Temperature compensation of circadian period length in 12 clock mutants of Neurospora crassa has been examined at temperatures between 16 and 34 degrees C. In the wild-type strain, below 30 degrees C (the "breakpoint" temperature), the clock is well-compensated (Q(10) = 1), while above 30 degrees C, the clock is less well-compensated (Q(10) = 1.3).

Comparison of Müller total hip replacement with and without trochanteric osteotomy. Kinesiologic measurements of 82 cases 2 years after surgery.

Function of 37 patients with osteotomy of the greater trochanter during total hip replacement (41 hips) is compared to function of 38 patients (41 hips) without osteotomy. Subjective assessments and cane force measurements were slightly more favorable in the group without osteotomy. Objective measurement of hip motion, hip abductor and adductor muscle strength, weight distribution during standing, and multiple components of free-speed and fast walking showed no statistically significant differences between performance of the groups with and without osteotomy before surgery or 6 months or 2 years after.

Glomus jugulare tumours--combined treatment: part I.

Total en bloc removal is the ideal surgical treatment for glomus jugulare tumours. Efforts to accomplish this have been made periodically since shortly after this tumour was first identified in the early 1940s. A method of removal using a combined approach through the neck and temporal bone is described here.

Azidoatrazine: photoaffinity label for the site of triazine herbicide action in chloroplasts.

Binding of the 4-azido analog of the herbicide atrazine to pea chloroplast membranes was compared with that of atrazine. When [(14)C]azidoatrazine was treated with 300-nanometer ultraviolet light in situ, reversibility of binding was lost in proportion to the duration of irradiation. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of chloroplast membranes irradiated in the presence of [(l4)C]-azidoatrazine indicated radioactivity in only one region, corresponding to a protein with a molecular weight of approximately 32,000.

Photoaffinity labeling of an herbicide receptor protein in chloroplast membranes.

2-Azido-4-ethylamino-6-isopropylamino-s-triazine (azido-atrazine) inhibits photosynthetic electron transport at a site identical to that affected by atrazine (2-chloro-4-ethylamino-6-isopropylamino-s-triazine). The latter is a well-characterized inhibitor of photosystem II reactions. Azido-atrazine was used as a photoaffinity label to identify the herbicide receptor protein; UV irradiation of chloroplast thylakoids in the presence of azido[(14)C]atrazine resulted in the covalent attachment of radioactive inhibitor to thylakoid membranes isolated from pea seedlings and from a triazine-susceptible biotype of the weed Amaranthus hybridus.

Work capacity after iron treatment as a function of hemoglobin and iron deficiency.

The relative importance of hemoglobin (Hb) and non-Hb iron for physical work capacity was studied in 45 adult male and female subjects, with a range of Hb and serum iron levels. Maximal work capacity, heart rate, venous blood lactate and serum protein were measured before and after 1 week of treatment with Imferon, i.v.

Elevation of hemoglobin and work tolerance in iron-deficient subjects.

Selected parameters related to work tolerance were measured in 31 adult subjects with hemoglobin (Hb) concentration from 2.5 to 14.0 g/100 ml.

Identification and ecology of salt-requiring vibrio associated with cured meats.

Of 454 isolates of salt-requiring Vibrio, 17 were identified as V. costicola (Group 1) and 35 as V. costicola sub-sp.

Solubilization of the receptor for N-1-naphthylphthalamic Acid.

A receptor protein for the auxin transport inhibitor, N-1-naphthylphthalamic acid (NPA), has been solubilized from corn coleoptile membranes using Triton X-100. [(3)H]NPA binding activity of the receptor was compared in soluble and membrane-bound states. Both activities are abolished by treatment with trypsin.

The frq locus in Neurospora crassa: a key element in circadian clock organization.

Four new circadian clock mutants of Neurospora crassa have been isolated that alter the period length of the circadian conidiation rhythm. Three of these are at the frq locus on linkage group VIIR, where four other clock mutants are located. In contrast to wild type, which has a period length of 21.

Strength of isometric and isokinetic contractions: knee muscles of men aged 20 to 86.

Maximum isometric and isokinetic torques of the knee flexor and extensor muscles were measured at three knee joint positions in 72 normal, health men in three age groups from 20 to 86 years. The isokinetic contractions were performed at a speed of 36 degrees per second. The isometric contractions were sustained for five seconds.

Computed tomography of jugulotympanic paragangliomas.

Seven cases of jugulotympanic paragangliomas were studied with computed tomography (CT) and verified by angiography and surgery. All of five glomus jugulare tumors were detected and their extent accurately demonstrated by CT. Two small glomus tympanicum tumors were not convincingly demonstrated.