therapeutic and functional electrical stimulation

... electrode implantation in the functional electrical stimulation experiments The control animals for functional electrical stimulation received electrode without electrical current Morphometric/ ... shown) FGF-2 in the facial nucleus after functional electrical stimulation of the levator labii superioris muscle A seven days-functional electrical stimulation promoted increases of FGF-2 immunoreactivity ... to a functional electrical stimulation accord-ing to protocols of Miles [20], Pilyavskii [21] and of Trang 3Blum [22] adapted for facial muscles by our group.Briefly, a thread electrode for stimulation...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... Open AccessThe orthotic and therapeutic effects following daily community applied functional electrical stimulation in children with unilateral spastic cerebral palsy: a randomised controlled trial ... muscle electrical stimulation for improving gait and functional activity was cautiously advocated for children with CP [19] However included in this review were studies where electrical stimulation ... structure and function and activity The primary outcomes were lower limb biomechanics and included ankle kinematics and temporal spatial measures during walking gait cycle and community balance and...

Ngày tải lên: 27/02/2020, 13:10

... (22-30 Hz) and low-g (30-50 Hz) bands for Subject 2,μ, b and low-g (30-50 Hz) bands for Subject 3, μ and b bands for Subject 4, and μ, b and low-g (30-50 Hz) bands for Subject 5 The offline performance ... time, and subsequently translating them into com-mands for a limb prosthesis To date, this concept has been successfully applied to the control of robotic arms [15] and functional electrical stimulation ... frequency bands (see Table 2) were found using the procedure described in the Methods section, and included the μ (8-13 Hz), b (13-30 Hz) and low-g (30-38 Hz) bands for Subject 1, high-b (22-30 Hz) and...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... PROGRAMMABLE STIMULATOR FOR FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION TAN YI JUN JASON NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE 2010 Trang 2A PROGRAMMABLE STIMULATOR FOR FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION TAN YI JUN ... to restore limb functions like standing, walking and grasping Fig 1.6 gives an overview of a FES system for hand and arm functions Fig 1.6 FES system for hand and arm functions [8] A typical FES ... “Dual-version” comparator 120 7.2.5 Layout and post-layout simulations 121 7.4 Future work and challenges 126 Trang 8SUMMARY Functional Electrical Stimulation or FES has been used widely for...

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 22:43

... head and trunk (lumped into head + trunk) The CoM of head, hand, and foot were taken as HEAD, HAND RIGHT and HAND LEFT, and FOOT RIGHT and FOOT LEFT, respectively, from the “Skeleton Tracking” ... susceptible to another stroke Functional electrical stimulation (FES) involves electrical stimulation of nerves and muscles with continuous short pulses of electrical current at a certain pulse ... drop and how that affected poststroke stand-to-walk transition In fact, Neptune and colleagues [19] have found synergistic action of soleus and medial gastrocnemius which provided body support and...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2022, 09:00

... cortico-muscular electrical stimulation: a novel method that enhances motor function in both - normal and spinal cord injured mice Zaghloul Ahmed Abstract Background: Electrical stimulation of the central and ... activity Electrical stimulation is an effective method that promotes reactive sprouting through which an increase in the number of functional connections may be possible [3] Electrical stimulation ... type of stimulation and location of the stimulation and recording electrodes was the same in these two phases During dCMS phase the preparation was stimulated by application of the positive and negative...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... accessed both class II and class I MHC antigen processing machineries and effectively activated EBV-specific CD4 and CD8 T cells Phenotype and kinetic analyses revealed that the IFN-γ and the CD137 selections ... LMP2A-specific expression of IFN-γ, IL-2 and CD107a in the CD8 T cells, and to a lesser extent, the CD4 T cells (Fig 8A top: IL-2 and IFN-γ, and bottom: CD107a and IFN-γ) The antigen-specific effector ... Phenotype and functional evaluation of ex vivo generated antigen-specific immune effector cells with potential for therapeutic applications Address: 1 Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 22:20

... Trang 1a-enolase: a promising therapeutic and diagnostic tumor target Michela Capello, Sammy Ferri-Borgogno, Paola Cappello and Francesco Novelli Department of Medicine and Experimental Oncology, ... were found in both leu-kemia and lung cancer and one serine in both tumoral and normal pancreas ENOA in tumor cells is subjected to more acetyla-tion, methylation and phoshorylation than in normal ... illustrate the multi-functional properties of ENOA in tumorigenesis, and its key implications in cancer proliferation, invasion and immune response In cancer cells, ENOA is overex-pressed and localizes...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 19:20

... (B) HPRT and hypoxanthine (C) PRTFDC1 and guanine (D) HPRT and guanine. Table 2 Kmand Vmaxvalues for Hx and G in the presence of 1 m M PRPP, determined using the DE-81 filter paper assay and tritium-labeled ... Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (to L.W and S.E.), the Swedish Research Council (to H.E and P.N.) and the Swedish Cancer Foundation (to H.E and P.N.) The Structural Genomics ... (A) mono-mer and (B) tetramono-mer generated using sym-metry-related molecules Interactions with GMP (C) GMP, phosphate and calcium ions are shown as sticks and spheres colored pink and black,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 01:20

... (a helix signature), 218 nm (b strand signature), 202–204 nm (random coil signature) In WhiB5 and WhiB6, the structure was dominated by a helices and b strands and the propor-tion of these structural ... refolding were  98% pure and were brownish (Figs S1 and S2) The presence of four conserved cysteines and the brownish appearance of purified WhiB1, WhiB2, WhiB5, WhiB6 and WhiB7 indicated the presence ... WhiB6 and WhiB7 the loss was  8–10% After 48 h of air exposure, losses were as follows:  80% in WhiB1,  75% in WhiB2 and WhiB5,  65% in WhiB3,  60% in WhiB4, and  35–40% in WhiB6 and WhiB7...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 12:20

... between R81 and P82 and between G90 and I91. A similar cis peptide between G93 and V94 is found in Tm SurE also. Overall structural features of the protein St SurE is an aba sandwich protein and adopts ... are represented by pink, cyan, blue and yellow, respectively. The tetra- meric interactions are between the subunits A and C, and B and D, by way of the b hairpins and the loop, which connects b2tob3 (boxed). Structure ... Science and Technology (DST) and the Depart- ment of Biotechnology (DBT) of the Government of India. MRN and HSS thank DST and DBT for finan- cial support. AP acknowledges the Council for Scientific and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 14:20

... 2,3 and 4, lower band) The levels of mutant and wild-type MCPIP mRNAs were higher when these vectors were co-transfected with a vector overexpress-ing IL-1b (Fig 5, lanes 3 and 4, upper bands) ... intermediate levels in heart and placenta, and the lowest levels in spleen, kid-ney, liver and lung The transcript was not detectable in brain, thymus, muscles, small intestine and colon (Fig 3A) The ... and encoding MCPIP [2] This protein con-sists of 599 amino acids, and has a putative nuclear localization signal and two proline-rich potential acti-vation domains, one between residues 100 and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 14:20

... performed with rabbit preimmune and post-third inoculation sera against a M tuberculosis sonicate (lanes 1, 2 and 5) and a membrane frac-tion (lanes 3 and 4) Lanes 1 and 3, absence of recognifrac-tion ... Trang 1Rv2560 ) biochemical and functional studiesDavid F Plaza1, Hernando Curtidor2,4, Manuel A Patarroyo1,4, Julie A Chapeton-Montes1, Claudia Reyes3, Jose Barreto3and Manuel E Patarroyo1,5 1 ... nm) (Fig 5A) Scat-chard and Hill analyses were then performed and dis-sociation constants (Kd) were calculated for Rv2560 HABP 11024 for U937 and A549 cell lines (Kd of 380 and 800 nm, respectively)...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 16:20

... D and E + F), (b) a few hydrogen bonds, and a hydrophobic interaction between A + C, B + E and D + F, and (c) electrostatic forces in the central channel of the hexamer between B, C and F, and ... water molecule fix-ing the three lysines from the B, C and F subunits, and there is no direct interaction between subunits A and F, B and D, or C and E A phosphate ion was found in the donor site ... Ala The mutant enzymes, F133N and F133A, were expressed, purified and characterized With 1 mm UMP and ATP as substrates, the activities of F133N and F133A were only 50 and 20% of that of the wild-type...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 16:20

... Switzerland 2Department of Health Sciences and Health Policy, University of Lucerne and SPF, Nottwil, Switzerland 3Seminar for Statistics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland ... relationships, and living conditions The WHOQOL and WHOQOL-BREF were specifically developed for cross-cultural use and are currently available in 36 languages Psychometric Geyh et al Health and Quality ... data, the drafting and revision of the manuscript IK contributed to the acquisition and management of the data and revised the manuscript MP contributed to the conception and design of the study,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:21

... Characteristics of hand path movement Figure shows the initial measurements for hand path, speed, curvature and jerk movement in the patients with a SIAS score of 2, 3, and 4, and in the healthy ... (s) Figure Hand paths, including the speed, curvature, and jerk profiles were evaluated in four representative participants Panels A, B, C and D show the respective hand paths The hand path is ... healthy participants Red, blue, and green thick and dotted lines in panels A and B denotes median (thick lines) and quartile (dotted lines) of MedianL from both initial and final measurements in Experiment...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... schedule with frequent rest periods) and random ordering of taskrelated exercises improves performance and learning [3,80] A good interchange between loading and adequate rest intervals are necessary ... patient's hand through a handle that is connected to the end-effector of the robot This robot treatment focuses on shoulder and elbow function The MIME system can work in preprogrammed position and ... rotations) and forearm (no pro- or supination) cause a discrepancy between functional relevance of the exercise that is instructed and the actual movement that is performed Patients and therapists...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... (denervated group) In GIV and GV, Pes during right phrenic nerve stimulation were lower than in group I (p < 0.05) and not different between GI and GIII During left stimulation, the lowest values ... nerve stimulation, shortenings in groups IV and V were statistically lower than in group I (healthy group), and statistically not different between GI and GIII During bilateral phrenic nerve stimulation, ... Group Figure the right 2and left quiet (EMG score) obtained in the different group, duringhemidiaphragm Global electrical activitybreathing and tracheal occlusion for Global electrical activity (EMG...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20

... arm and hand rehabilitation 23 2.4.2 Robots dedicated to wrist and hand rehabilitation 24 2.4.3 Robots dedicated to hand and fingers rehabilitation 25 2.4.4 HandCPM ... pain and other therapeutic reasons However, efficiency of acupuncture for stroke rehabilitation is still controversial • Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES): FES consists in the artificial electrical ... control of the forearm, wrist and fingers and involve a large number of joints Further, performing hand activities also requires the elbow and shoulder to support the weight and CHAPTER INTRODUCTION...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:04

... economics, and complexity theory (see also, Colander, Holt and Rosser, 2004: 496) Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis (2000) identify Ronald Coase, Friedrich von Hayek, Duncan Luce and Howard Riaffa, and ... Cowles Commission and the empiricist pragmatism of the Marshallian applied microeconomics of the Chicago School (Novshek and Sonnenschein, 1987; Hands and Mirowski, 1998; Mirowski and Hands, 1998; ... neoclassical economics (up to the 1970s) and the contemporary For recent surveys, see (Bowles and Gintis, 2000; Colander, 2000; Mirowski, 2002; Colander, Holt and Rosser, 2004; Davis, 2006) mainstream...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 02:05