Evaluation of skin- versus teeth-attached markers in wireless optoelectronic recordings of chewing movements in man.

This study evaluated the applicability of skin- and teeth-attached reflex markers fixed to the mandible and the head for optoelectronic recording of chewing movements. Markers were attached to the upper and lower incisors and to the skin on the forehead, the bridge of the nose, the tip of the nose and the chin in seven subjects. Chewing movements were recorded in three dimensions using a high-resolution system for wireless optoelectronic recording.

Bradykinin-induced venodilation is not different in blacks.

Aims: The aim of this study was to determine whether young, normotensive blacks who have been recently demonstrated to have a venodilator response to isoprenaline decreased compared with whites, also have an decreased vasodilatory response to bradykinin.

Methods: Eleven black and 11 white subjects were studied. Full dose-response curves to bradykinin (dosing range 0.

Acute complications of cocaine intoxication.

The advent of crack cocaine has changed the face of acute cocaine intoxication. Repeated doses of highly concentrated, rapidly delivered drug can give rise to an array of potentially fatal cardiovascular, neurologic, and respiratory complications.

Effect of acute or repeated stress on behavior and brain norepinephrine system in Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats.

WKY rats develop more restraint-induced gastric ulcers and exhibit more depressive behavior compared to other rat strains. Exposure to novel stressors for 21 days exacerbates depressive behavior in WKY rats and alters beta-adrenoceptors (beta-ARs) and norepinephrine transporter (NET) sites in several limbic brain regions when compared to Sprague-Dawley rats. The present study examined whether these effects would be elaborated following an acute stressor and whether WKY rats would demonstrate adaptation after repeated stress.

Impaired beta 2-adrenergic agonist-induced venodilation in Indians of Asian origin.

Objectives: Vascular responsiveness to infusions of vasoactive substances varies between ethnic groups. Indians of Asian origin are a rapidly growing ethnic group in the United States but have not been extensively studied. We sought to determine whether there was any difference in venous responsiveness to a local infusion of vasoactive substances between Indians of Asian origin and white subjects.

Spatial activation maps--bioelectric signals related to 3D recorded movements.

The analysis of multidimensional neurophysiological data poses difficulties for the scientist in understanding the often complex inherent data relations. This is particularly the case when neuromuscular cell discharge parameters are to be related to body segment movement characteristics in freely behaving animals or humans. The understanding of such data is greatly simplified if the recorded data can be visualized in an adequate way, and relevant data relations are thus highlighted.