Effect of different neuromuscular training modalities on postural stability in healthy recreation people: a randomized controlled trial.

This study aimed to determine the effects of dynamic neuromuscular stabilization (DNS), whole-body vibration (WBV), and a combination of DNS and WBV (MIX) training modalities on postural stability (PS) in healthy recreation participants. The 179 participants (age 24.02 ± 2.

Changes of peripheral serotonin in the psychosocially stressed rats treated with linden honey.

This study aimed to investigate the effects of linden honey in maintaining the stability of peripheral serotonergic system in the psychosocially stressed rats. In this experiment we examined concentration of serotonin (5-HT) in Serbian linden honey, as well as concentrations of 5-HT and MAO A activity in the blood of chronically stressed rats treated with linden honey. The investigated parameters were quantified using HPLC method with electrochemical detector, HPLC method with a fluorescent detector, and assay of enzyme activities.

Disorder-Induced Magnetotransport Anomalies in Amorphous and Textured CoSi Semimetal Thin Films.

In recent times the chiral semimetal cobalt monosilicide (CoSi) has emerged as a prototypical, nearly ideal topological conductor hosting giant, topologically protected Fermi arcs. Exotic topological quantum properties have already been identified in CoSi bulk single crystals. However, CoSi is also known for being prone to intrinsic disorder and inhomogeneities, which, despite topological protection, risk jeopardizing its topological transport features.

Synthesis and characterization of luminescent Cu-doped fluorapatite nanocrystals as potential broad-spectrum antimicrobial agents.

Nanomaterials based on metal-doped fluorapatite (FAP) have attracted considerable interest as potential next-generation antimicrobial agents. In this study, Cu-doped FAP nanocrystals have been successfully synthesized by a neutralization method at room temperature. Their structural, optical, antimicrobial, and hemcompatible properties have been investigated.

Dynamic Seat Assessment for Enabled Restlessness of Children with Learning Difficulties.

Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) face a range of learning difficulties in the school environment, thus several strategies have been developed to enhance or optimise their performance in school. One possible way is to actively enable appropriate restlessness using dynamic seats. In this paper, an assessment of the efficacy of a dynamic seat while solving school task is presented and compared to classic chair and therapy ball.

Hair Loss Caused by Gain-of-Function Mutant TRPV3 Is Associated with Premature Differentiation of Follicular Keratinocytes.

Gain-of-function mutations in the TRPV3 gene can cause Olmsted syndrome characterized by palmoplantar and periorificial keratoderma, itch, and hair loss. The mechanism underlying the hair loss remains unclear. In this study, we engineered an Olmsted syndrome mouse model by introducing the point mutation G568V to the corresponding Trpv3 locus in the mice.

The chemical fingerprint of hair melanosomes by infrared nano-spectroscopy.

In situ characterization of the chemical and structural properties of black and white sheep hair was performed with a spatial resolution of 25 nm using infrared nano-spectroscopy. Comparing data sets from two types of hair allowed us to isolate the keratin FTIR fingerprint and so mark off chemical properties of the hair's melanosomes. From a polarization sensitive analysis of the nano-FTIR spectra, we showed that keratin intermediate filaments (IFs) present anisotropic molecular ordering.

Local structure of human hair spatially resolved by sub-micron X-ray beam.

Human hair has three main regions, the medulla, the cortex, and the cuticle. An existing model for the cortex suggests that the α-keratin- based intermediate filaments (IFs) align with the hair's axis, but are orientationally disordered in-plane. We found that there is a new region in the cortex near the cuticle's boundary in which the IFs are aligned with the hair's axis, but additionally, they are orientationally ordered in-plane due to the presence of the cuticle/hair boundary.

Experimental pleural empyema model in rabbits: Why, how and what are the next steps.

Background/aim: The use of new therapeutic methods to prevent development of fibrothorax as the final complication of the human pleural infections requires research with experimental animals. The aim of this study was to standardize the procedures for the establishment of our own experimental model of empyema in rabbits, since it should be able to offer similar conditions found in human pleural infections.

Methods: This experiment included 15 chinchilla rabbits, weighing from 2.

A single incision transaxillary thoracoscopic sympathectomy.

Background/aim: Primary hyperhidrosis causes are unknown. The disorder begins in early childhood. It intensifies in puberty and maturity.

Large assembly formation via a two-step process in a chromonic liquid crystal.

IR-806 is a near-infrared cyanine dye that forms assemblies in aqueous solutions which in turn orientationally order into a liquid crystal phase at concentrations as low as 0.5 wt %. Unlike many chromonic liquid crystals, the absorption spectrum of IR-806 changes dramatically with concentration, showing an isodesmic assembly process at lower concentrations followed by a second process at higher concentrations that is not isodesmic.

[Surgical treatment of unicentric plasma cell histological type Castleman's disease].

Introduction: Castleman's disease or angiofollicular lymph hyperplasia is a rare disease with two identified clinical forms. Unicentric or localized form is characterized by isolated growth of lymph nodes, most often in mediastinum, and multicentric form is expressed as systemic disease with spread lymphadenopathy, organomegaly and presence of general symptoms of the disease. Histological types are hyalovascular, plasma-cell and transitive (mixed) cell.

[External fixation in the treatment of shooting proximal humeral fracture with bone defect: a case report].

Introduction: Shooting injuries of shoulder with destruction of proximal humerus are rare and severe orthopaedic injuries.

Case Outline: A 74-year-old patient was wounded at close range by a shotgun. He was wounded in the left shoulder and suffered a massive defect of the proximal humerus and soft tissue.

[Penetrating injury of the lungs and multiple injuries of lower extremities caused by aircraft bombs splinters].

Introduction: Injuries caused by aircraft bombs cause severe damages to the human body. They are characterized by massive destruction of injured tissues and organs, primary contamination by polymorph bacterial flora and modified reactivity of the body. Upon being wounded by aircraft bombs projectiles a victim simultaneously sustains severe damages of many organs and organ systems due to the fact that a large number of projectiles at the same time injure the chest, stomach, head and extremities.

Filamentous condensation of DNA induced by pegylated poly-L-lysine and transfection efficiency.

In this paper we propose a detailed analysis of structural and morphological properties of two poly-L-lysine (PLL)-based transfection formulations, PLL/DNA and pegylated PLL (PLL-g-PEG)/DNA, by means of atomic force microscopy (AFM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Comparing PLL-g-PEG/DNA with PLL/DNA polyplexes, we demonstrate that, due to the presence of PEG, the particles differ not only in size, shape, and crystalline structure, but also in transfection efficiency. While PLL condensates DNA in large agglomerates, PLL grafted with polyethylene glycol 2000 can condensate DNA in long filaments with diameters of some nanometers (6-20 nm).

Radical resection of giant chondrosarcoma of the anterior chest wall.

Background: Chondrosarcomas represent approximately 30% of primary malignant bone tumors, the most frequent of which is on anterior thoracic wall.

Case Report: We presented a case of 50-year-old man suffering from a slow-growing, painless giant chondrosarcoma of the anterior chest wall. A wide resection was performed to excise the tumor including attached skin, right breast, ribs, sternum, soft tissues and parietal pleura.

[Surgical treatment of lung sequestration].

Background/aim: Pulmonary sequestration is a congenital malformation which consists of afunctional part of the lung, separated of the normal airway, and vascularisated with anomal systemic artery instead of pulmonary artery. There are two kinds of sequestration. Intralobar is surrounded with normal lung and its pleura, and extralobar which has extrapulmonary position and pleura of its own.

[Clinical and pathophysiological features of traumatic stenosis of the right main bronchus--case report].

Introduction: Severe blunt injury of the chest can cause rupture of the tracheobronchial tree. After completed management of the injury, stenosis of the bronchi may develop at the site of the rupture. Such condition is associated with pathophysiolocical disorders, which then indicates to the possible presence of the bronchial stenosis.

Use of Marlex mesh with methylmethacrylate to repair large full-thickness defects after subtotal sternectomy caused by chondroma.

Background: Sternal benign neoplasms are extremely rare. Chondroma is a benign tumor of cartilage and can be single or multple.

Case Report: We presented a case of 28-year-old woman with chondroma of the sternum treated by "en bloc" resection of the tumor (subtotal sternectomy).

[Surgical treatment of war posttraumatic pleural empyemas].

Background/aim: Posttraumatic pleural empyema is the most frequent septic complication of the thoracic penetrating war injuries. Surgical treatment used to be based on the experience gained in the treatment of parapneumonic empyema, the most frequent empyema, and used to be favored the pleural drainage until the nineties of the last century. Thoracotomy and decortication was performed in case of drainage failure, in early chronic phase, 4-6 weeks after injury.

[Thoracic surgery in solving enormous elevation of the left hemidiaphragm].

Background: Acquired elevation of the diaphragm is mostly the result of phrenic nerve paralysis, some of thoracic and abdominal patological states, and also some of neuromuscular diseases. Surgical treatment is rarely performed and is indicated when lung compression produces disabilitating dyspnea, and includes plication of diaphragm. The goal of this case report has been to show completely documented diagnostic procedures and surgical treatment one of rare pathological condition.

Survival of patients with resected pIIIa - N2 non small cell lung cancer: suggestion for subclassification.

Purpose: The group of completely resected stage IIIa- N2 non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients is considered heterogeneous in various aspects including survival and pattern of recurrence. The prognostic factors still remain controversial. Clinical trials dealing with multimodal strategy for N2 NSCLC are being watched with keen interest, and the feasibility of this strategy is to be confirmed.