Synthesis of MOF-supported Pt catalyst with high electrochemical oxidation activity for methanol oxidation.

Fuel cells, one of the clean energy sources, is quite remarkable for energy production. In this context, catalysts are needed for the electrochemical reactions of DMFCs (direct methanol fuel cells) to work efficiently. In this study, Pt and Pt@Ti-MOF (Pt@MIL-125) NPs (nanoparticles) catalysts were synthesized by chemical synthesis.

Kinematic Gait Impairments in Children with Clubfeet Treated by the Ponseti Method: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Background: Being aware of possible gait impairments in Ponseti-treated clubfoot children might be useful for optimizing initial and additional treatment. Therefore, this systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to identify kinematic gait abnormalities in children with clubfoot treated with the Ponseti method (with and without relapse).

Methods: A systematic search was conducted.

Plantar pressure distribution and wearing characteristics of three forefoot offloading shoes in healthy adult subjects.

Forefoot offloading shoes are used to reduce pressure on specific regions of the foot. Aim of the pressure reduction is to aid healing of the soft and bony tissues and prevent complications by treating foot disorders. A great variety of forefoot offloading shoes are available.

Gait kinetics in children with clubfeet treated surgically or with the Ponseti method: A meta-analysis.

Background: Currently, the Ponseti method is the gold standard for treatment of clubfeet. For long-term functional evaluation of this method, gait analysis can be performed. Previous studies have assessed gait differences between Ponseti treated clubfeet and healthy controls.

Dynamics of Indian Ocean Slavery Revealed through Isotopic Data from the Colonial Era Cobern Street Burial Site, Cape Town, South Africa (1750-1827).

The Dutch East India Company (VOC) intended the Cape of Good Hope to be a refreshment stop for ships travelling between the Netherlands and its eastern colonies. The indigenous Khoisan, however, did not constitute an adequate workforce, therefore the VOC imported slaves from East Africa, Madagascar and Asia to expand the workforce. Cape Town became a cosmopolitan settlement with different categories of people, amongst them a non-European underclass that consisted of slaves, exiles, convicts and free-blacks.

Mutation in MEOX1 gene causes a recessive Klippel-Feil syndrome subtype.

Background: Klippel-Feil syndrome (KFS) is characterized by the developmental failure of the cervical spine and has two dominantly inherited subtypes. Affected individuals who are the children of a consanguineous marriage are extremely rare in the medical literature, but the gene responsible for this recessive trait subtype of KFS has recently been reported.

Results: We identified a family with the KFS phenotype in which their parents have a consanguineous marriage.

A novel locus for restless legs syndrome on chromosome 13q.

Background: Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a sensorimotor disorder in which affected individuals suffer from uncomfortable sensations and an urge to move their lower limbs; it occurs mainly in resting situations during the evening or at night. Multiple chromosomal loci have been mapped for RLS through family-based linkage analysis, and genome-wide association studies but causative mutations have not been identified yet.

Method: We identified an RLS family from the eastern part of central Turkey which has 10 patients suffering from this syndrome.

Etanercept treatment enhances clinical and neuroelectrophysiological recovery in partial spinal cord injury.

Purpose: To investigate the effect of an anti-TNF-α agent (etanercept) on recovery processes in a partial spinal cord injury (SCI) model using clinical and electrophysiological tests.

Methods: Twenty-four New Zealand rabbits were divided into three groups: group 1 [SCI + 2 ml saline intramuscular (i.m.

Myelopathy and Quadriparesis due to Spinal Cord Compression of C1 Laminar Osteochondroma.

The aim of this paper is to show that osteochondromas of the cervical vertebrae can cause myelopathy and neck pain.The reported etiology, diagnosis, treatment and differential diagnosis were reviewed. Osteochondromas may present as a solitary lesion with no genetic component or as multiple lesions as a part of a genetic disorder known as hereditary multiple exostosis.

Intracranial arachnoid cyst family with autosomal recessive trait mapped to chromosome 6q22.31-23.2.

Background: Arachnoid cysts are congenital fluid-filled compartments within the cerebrospinal fluid cisterns and cerebral fissures. They most commonly occur sporadically, and familial occurrence has rarely been reported. In this study, we showed the first genetic linkage in the literature in a pure intracranial arachnoid cyst family with autosomal recessive trait.

Clipping of large and giant aneurysms of anterior circulation.

Aim: Surgical outcome for giant intracranial aneurysms (GIA) is suboptimal. Reasons for higher complication rates in large and GIA surgery are the occlusion of perforators or parent arteries during aneurysm clipping, or prolonged temporary occlusion of main arteries. In this article, results of clipping of large and GIAs of anterior circulation are presented.

The effect of reduced somatosensation on standing balance: a systematic review.

The objective of this review is to identify and review publications describing the impact of reduced somatosensation on balance. Based on knowledge of the association between specific somatosensory loss and deterioration of balance, conclusions can be made about role of somatosensation in standing balance. A systematic literature review is presented in which publications from the years 1993 through 2007 were searched in Medline and Embase.

Metabolic changes during successful medical therapy for brain hydatid cyst: case report.

Background: Medical therapy for hydatid disease of the brain has been reported with encouraging results especially in small or medium-sized cysts. To date, no other case correlating the metabolite levels of the cyst with albendazole treatment has been reported.

Case Description: A 52-year-old woman presented with left hemiparesis and seizure.

Intracarotid L-arginine reverses motor evoked potential changes in experimental cerebral vasospasm.

Objective: To investigate motor evoked potentials during short term L-arginine infusion in cerebral vasospasm after experimental subarachnoid hemorrhage.

Methods: Three groups were designated for this study: control group, subarachnoid hemorrhage-saline infusion group, and subarachnoid hemorrhage-L-arginine infusion group. A subarachnoid hemorrhage was created by intracisternal injection of autologous blood in New Zealand rabbits.

Cervical compression myelopathy: is fusion the main prognostic indicator?

Object: A variety of factors may affect the neurological improvement in patients with cervical compression myelopathy (CCM) after surgery. The aim of this study was to report and discuss the prognostic factors in a group of patients with insufficient decompression of the spinal canal.

Methods: A prospective follow up and analysis of 20 consecutive patients with CCM treated between 2000 and 2002 was performed.

A safe and effective method for treatment of chronic subdural haematoma.

Objective: Burr-hole irrigation and burr-hole drainage without irrigation are the most popular methods for treatment of chronic subdural haematoma. It is not well known if irrigation is necessary or which method has a higher recurrence rate. We compared the recurrence rates of those two methods.

Chronic subdural hematoma in patients with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura: A case report and review of the literature.

Background: cSDH is a rare form of bleeding in patients with ITP. Intracerebral hematoma or subarachnoid hemorrhage is more frequently reported in these patients. Spontaneous resolution of cSDH in patients with idiopathic subdural hematoma is uncommon.

Stab wound of the cervical spinal cord and ipsilateral vertebral artery injury.

Stab wound of the cervical spinal cord with ipsilateral vertebral artery injury is rare. We report a case of a penetrating injury by scissors to the cervical spinal cord and right vertebral artery. The management is discussed and literature reviewed.

Selective inhibition of endothelium-dependent relaxation by sympathectomy in rabbit carotid artery rings in vitro.

The influence of cervical and periarterial sympathectomy on endothelium-dependent relaxation of the rabbit common carotid artery was studied in vitro. Noradrenaline, serotonin, acetylcholine and papaverine concentration-response curves of sympathectomized and control rabbit common carotid artery rings were recorded and analyzed and effects of endothelium removal were investigated. Endothelium-dependent relaxation was selectively and significantly inhibited in 3 weeks postsympathectomy arterial preparations.

Aneurysmal peroneal nerve compression.

Vascular compression syndromes of the peroneal nerve are rare. The case history of a patient with a peroneal nerve compression caused by a true anterior tibial artery aneurysm is reported. The surgical excision of the aneurysm resulted in marked improvement.

Capsular ataxic tetraparesis.

A 42-year-old man with ataxic tetraparesis is reported. Computerized tomography showed bilateral and symmetrical lacunar infarcts at the junctions of the posterior limb of the internal capsule and the corona radiata. Previously this clinical syndrome had been reported only with a lesion in the pons.