Does Presurgical Magnetic Resonance Neurography Predict Surgical Gap Size in Trigeminal Class IV and V Injuries?

Purpose: The accuracy of magnetic resonance neurography (MRN) for quantitative assessment of nerve injury gap is unknown. We tested the hypothesis that presurgical MRN predicts the final surgical gap size after neuroma resection at the time of surgery.

Materials And Methods: This was a retrospective, single-blinded, nonrandomized cohort study on 43 patients with Sunderland Class IV and V injuries of the inferior alveolar (IAN) or the lingual nerve (LN).

Adiponectin-SOGA Dissociation in Type 1 Diabetes.

Context: Circulating adiponectin is elevated in human type 1 diabetes (T1D) and nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice without the expected indications of adiponectin action, consistent with tissue resistance.

Objective: Adiponectin stimulates hepatocyte production of the suppressor of glucose from autophagy (SOGA), a protein that inhibits glucose production. We postulated that due to tissue resistance, the elevation of adiponectin in T1D should fail to increase the levels of a surrogate marker for liver SOGA, the circulating C-terminal SOGA fragment.

Monitoring for periodontal inflammatory disease in the third molar region.

Purpose: To assess changes at 2-year intervals in the periodontal status of the third molar region in participants enrolled with asymptomatic third molars and no clinical evidence of third molar region periodontal pathology.

Participants And Methods: The included participants who presented with a healthy periodontal status (all probing depths [PDs], <4 mm) in the third molar region, defined as distal of second molars and around adjacent third molars, were from a larger longitudinal study of participants with asymptomatic third molars. Full-mouth periodontal PD data from 6 sites per tooth were obtained clinically at enrollment and at subsequent 2-year intervals.

Population-specific coding variant underlies genome-wide association with adiponectin level.

Adiponectin is a protein hormone that can affect major metabolic processes including glucose regulation and fat metabolism. Our previous genome-wide association (GWA) study of circulating plasma adiponectin levels in Filipino women from the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey (CLHNS) detected a 100 kb two-SNP haplotype at KNG1-ADIPOQ associated with reduced adiponectin (frequency = 0.050, P = 1.