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Treatment Of Periodontal Furcation Defects, Michael Martin, Bernard Gantes

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

[Note: Three parts in one.]

I. Review of the Literature and Description of a Regeneration Surgical Technique

This report provides an abbreviated review of the literature on treatment and prognosis of periodontal furcation lesions. In addition, it describes a surgical technique designed to accomplish bone regeneration in class II furcation defects, together with the rationale for the development of this procedure. Results of treatment of 30 defects with this technique are presented in a subsequent report (Gantes et al. 1987).

II. Bone Regeneration in Mandibular Class II Defects

A total of 30 mandibular, buccal class II furcation defects were treated …

Effects Of Corticosteroids And Of Cyclosporin A On Trypanosoma Musculi In Mice And In Culture, Philip Stephen Schuyler

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The in vivo and in vitro effects of cyclosporin A and corticosteroids on Trypanosoma musculi were examined. Mice that received continuous administration of 6 mg/liter/day of dexamethasone in drinking water and 200 mg/kg hydrocortisone acetate as a single dose 24 hrs prior to injection with T. musculi had significantly higher and longer parasitemias, than controls. Body and spleen weights and B cell responsiveness were lower in test animals and there were some deaths. Mice injected with T. musculi that received 100 mg/kg/day cyclosporin A had longer, but not higher, parasitemias than controls. Corticosteroids appear to partially inactive antibody production (i.e. …

The Effects Of Subcondylar Fracture On Mandibular Symmetry, Crystal Gregory-Anderson

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

A sample of thirteen patients who had sustained subcondylar fractures were evaluated for mandibular asymmetry. They were compared with a set of age and sex matched control patients with no history of fracture. The comparison was done cephalometrically by analysis of posterior-anterior radiographs. The purpose of the study was to determine if there was an increase in mandibular asymmetry in the subcondylar fracture patients over the control patients and to determine the location of the change.

On each radiograph 53 measurements were taken; of these there were 17 sets of bilateral measurements. Each set of bilateral measurements was analyzed in …

Incidence Of Boar Infertility Problem In The Farms Using Alternate Mating System, Annop Kunavongkrit, Peerasak Chantaraprateep, Peesak Chantaraprateep, Prasert Prateep

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

The objective of this investigation was to determine the incidence of infertile and/or subfertile boars in the breeding herd using alternate mating technique. The study was conducted in 3 com mercial farms which had alternate mating system with average boar power of 1:20. A total of one hundred boars were subjected to 137 semen collections and evaluation in conjuction with breeding history. The examination was carried out weekly, boar with any abnormality was subjected to re-examination for another one or two occasions. Problem animals were identified by semen picture as subfertile and infertile 12.0 and 11.0% respectively. For confirmation, they …

Short Communication Evidence For Foot And Mouth Disease Virus Carrier Cattle In Thailand, Pornchai Chomnanpood, W.J. Doughty, H.A. Westbury, Suchinta Tangchaitrong

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) virus was isolated from three of five groups of animals four to five months after a clinical outbreak of the disease. FMD virus type A was isolated during the original outbreaks and was again isolated later. These results provide presumptive evidence of the persistance of FMD virus in affected animals, although we lack detail information comparing the strains isolated during the outbreak and subsequently. Persistent infection with FMD virus may be important in the epizootiology of the disease in Thailand and requires further study to assess its significance.

How Do Harpacticoid Grazing Rates Differ Over A Tidal Cycle? Field Verification Using Chlorophyll-Pigment Analyses, Alan W. Decho

Faculty Publications

Four species of meiobenthic copepods were examined for diatom feeding. Microscopic analysis of gut-pellet contents from field-collected individuals indicated frequent ingestion of diatoms by 3 harpacticoids (Scottolana canadensis, Microarthridion littorale, Cletocamptus deitersi) while occasional diatom ingestion occurred Paronychocamptus huntsmani. Frustules were usually empty and broken, indicating that contents were digested. Laboratory experiments using ¹⁴C-labeling showed assimilation of diatoms by the 3 species examined. Field grazing rate studies were conducted over different portions of a tidal cycle using fluorescent chlorophyll-pigment analysis of gut-contents. Highest diatom consumption (p<0.05) occurred just after the mudflat became exposed (i.e. Early Low Water level, ELW) for S. canadensis, while consumption at Late Low Water …

Menno-Knight, June 1988, Mennonite College Of Nursing

Menno-Knight (1960s-1990s?)

Student newsletter of the Mennonite School/College of Nursing.

The Role Of Homeostatic Imbalance In The Reported Immunomodulation Of T-2 Toxin, Michael Jay Taylor

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

T-2 toxin (T-2), produced by the genus Fusarium, is a cytotoxic trichothecene mycotoxin, a feed contaminant, and has been shown to be immunomodulatory. It is suspected that T-2-associated immunomodulation is mediated partly through the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. The presence of endotoxin, a bacterial product capable of activating the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis as well as the levels of several hormones, also associated with activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, were determined in both vehicle- and toxin-treated animals. Endotoxemia was evident twenty-four hours after a single oral exposure to T-2. Blood levels of adrenocorticotropic hormone and corticosterone, parameters of the stress response, also increased …

Dual Mechanisms Of Regulation Of Type I Iodothyronine 5'-Deiodinase In The Rat Kidney, Liver, And Thyroid Gland. Implications For The Treatment Of Hyperthyroidism With Radiographic Contrast Agents., Donald L. St Germain

Dartmouth Scholarship

Alterations in thyroid hormone status and the administration of radiographic contrast agents can markedly influence iodothyronine metabolism and, in particular, the activity of type I 5'-deiodinase (5'DI). In the present studies, the mechanisms responsible for these effects have been reassessed. As previously reported, the addition of iopanoic acid (IOP) to broken cell preparations resulted in a competitive pattern of 5'DI inhibition. However, the in vivo administration to rats of IOP or 3,3',5'-triiodothyronine (rT3) resulted in a noncompetitive pattern of inhibition of 5'DI in the liver, kidney, and thyroid gland, whereby marked decreases in maximal enzyme velocity (V max) were noted, …

Electromagnetic Field Variations In The Activation Of Bone Cell Synthesis, Gary Ketcherside

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

[Abstract Not Included]

Ua12/2/1 Faces Of Bowling Green, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Special magazine edition of the College Heights Herald.

• Voninski, Tamara. Traveling Vet – John O’Brien
• Adams, Jeanie. The Teaching Mayor – Patsy Sloan
• Deputy, Amy & Todd Turner. Picking Up the Pieces - Ronny Skirven

Alteration Of The Adenylate Cyclase System In Specific Regions Of Brain Infected With Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Susan Valley

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

Creutzfeldt-Jakob (CJD) disease is an infectious, progressive neurological disorder which results in human dementia. Synaptic membranes from various brain regions of guinea pigs and hamsters infected with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease show increased guanyl nucleotide mediated activation of adenylate cyclase which appears to be due to a greater coupling of stimulatory subunits (Ns) and not to a decreased coupling of inhibitory subunits (Ni) or to a change in the catalytic subunit of adenylate cyclase. In addition to the increase in Ns coupling, CJD infected membranes appear to be more fluidized than normal membranes especially in the cerebral cortex. Experiments with selected neurotransmitters …

1988 Spring No. 16, School Of Medicine Office Of Alumni Affairs

Medicinews

LSU Medicinews Number 16 Spring 1988 was edited by Russell C. Klein, and published by the LSU School of Medicine Office of Alumni and Continuing Education Services.

This issue consists of 24 pages.

Acceleration Of Wound Healing With High Voltage, Monophasic, Pulsed Current, Luther C. Kloth, Jeffery A. Feedar

Physical Therapy Faculty Research and Publications

The purpose of this study was to determine whether high voltage electrical stimulation accelerates the rate of healing of dermal ulcers. Sixteen patients with stage IV decubitus ulcers, ranging in age from 20 to 89 years, participated in the study. The patients were assigned randomly to either a Treatment Group (n = 9) or a Control Group (n = 7). Patients in the Treatment Group received daily electrical stimulation from a commercial high voltage generator. Patients in the Control Group had the electrodes applied daily but received no stimulation. The ulcers of patients in the Treatment Group healed at a …

The Aids Project Newsletter (March 1988), David Ketchum, The Aids Project

AIDS Project Newsletter (1987-1991)

No abstract provided.

Back Matter

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Parentage Analysis With Genetic Markers In Natural Populations I The Expected Proportion Of Offspring With Unambiguous Paternity, R Chakraborty, T R Meagher, P E Smouse

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Recent studies indicate that polymorphic genetic markers are potentially helpful in resolving genealogical relationships among individuals in a natural population. Genetic data provide opportunities for paternity exclusion when genotypic incompatibilities are observed among individuals, and the present investigation examines the resolving power of genetic markers in unambiguous positive determination of paternity. Under the assumption that the mother for each offspring in a population is unambiguously known, an analytical expression for the fraction of males excluded from paternity is derived for the case where males and females may be derived from two different gene pools. This theoretical formulation can also be …

Inventing The Skin You Love To Test, Rick Weiss

Popular Press Items

No abstract provided.

Policy For Identifying And Assessing The Health Risks Of Toxic Substances, Maine Bureau Of Health

Maine Collection

Policy for Identifying and Assessing the Health Risks of Toxic Substances

by Norman T. Anderson, Environmental Toxicology Program, Division of Disease Control, Bureau of Health (February, 1988).

Contents: Section I: Introduction / Section II: Methods / Section III: Exposure Assessment / Section IV: Hazard Identification / Section V: Hazard Assessment / Section VI: Risk Characterization / List of Figures / List of Tables

The Aids Project Newsletter (February 1988), David Ketchum, The Aids Project

AIDS Project Newsletter (1987-1991)

No abstract provided.

Laminin Receptors For Neurite Formation, H. K. Kleinman, Roy C. Ogle, F. B. Cannon, C. D. Little, T. M. Sweeney, L. Luckenbill-Edds

School of Medical Diagnostics & Translational Sciences Publications

Laminin, a basement membrane glycoprotein promotes both cell attachment and neurite outgrowth. Separate domains on laminin elicit these responses, suggesting that distinct receptors occur on the surface of cells. NG108-15 neuroblastoma-glioma cells rapidly extend long processes in the presence of laminin. We report here that 125I-labeled laminin specifically binds to these cells and to three membrane proteins of 67, 110, and 180 kDa. These proteins were isolated by affinity chromatography on laminin-Sepharose. The 67-kDa protein reacted with antibody to the previously characterized receptor for cell attachment to laminin. Antibodies to the 110-kDa and 180-kDa bands demonstrated that the 110-kDa protein …

Analysis Of The Virulence Of Streptococcus Mutans Serotype C Gtfa Mutants In The Rat Model System, Raul G. Barletta, Suzanne M. Michalek, Roy Curtis Iii

School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences: Faculty Publications

The Streptococcus mutans serotype c gtfA gene encodes a 55-kilodalton protein which catalyzes the synthesis of a small glucan (1.5 kilodaltons) from sucrose (J. P. Robeson, R. G. Barletta, and R. Curtiss III, J. Bacteriol. 153:211-221, 1983). To investigate the role of the GtfA enzyme in virulence, we constructed S. mutans gtfA mutants from three cariogenic serotype c strains. A plasmid that carried an erythromycin resistance determinant and an internal fragment of the gtfA gene but that was unable to replicate in streptococci was used to transform S. mutans. The erythromycin-resistant transformants carried a partial duplication of the internal …

What's Happening: January 27, 1988, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

What's Happening: January 13, 1988, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

What's Happening: January 6, 1988, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

The Devil Made Me Do It - Chapter 1 Of "Counseling And The Demonic", Rodger K. Bufford

Counseling and the Demonic

Chapter 1 of Counseling and the Demonic by Rodger K Bufford

Satan Is Alive And Active - Chapter 2 Of "Counseling And The Demonic", Rodger K. Bufford

Counseling and the Demonic

Chapter 1 of Counseling and the Demonic by Rodger K Bufford

Faulty Thinking: Separating The Spiritual And The Physical - Chapter 4 Of "Counseling And The Demonic", Rodger K. Bufford

Counseling and the Demonic

Chapter 4 of Counseling and the Demonic by Rodger K Bufford

Spiritual Interventions - Chapter 10 Of "Counseling And The Demonic", Rodger K. Bufford

Counseling and the Demonic

Chapter 10 of Counseling and the Demonic by Rodger K Bufford

Counseling And The Demonic - Full Text, Rodger K. Bufford

Counseling and the Demonic

This is the full text of Counseling and the Demonic, by Rodger K. Bufford, PhD. Word Publishing (June 1, 1995)

‎ 978-0849936166

Table of Contents:

1. The Devil Made Me Do It

2. Satan Is Alive and Active

3. Biblical Accounts of Satanic Activity

4. Faulty Thinking: Separating the Spiritual and the Physical

5. Mental Illness

6. Mental Disorders

7. Demon Possession

8. Demonic Influence and Mental Disorders

9. Assessment and Diagnosis of Demonic Influence

10. Spiritual Interventions

11. Counseling Approaches

12. Summary and Conclusion

" The tendency to polarize the material and spiritual dimensions produces disagreement over whether demonic …