In the present study, the intra-rater reliability of upper trapezius morphology, its mechanical properties and intramuscular blood circulation in females with myofascial pain syndrome were assessed using ultrasonography.
It may or may not be pertinent to a larger picture of the period's visual culture that Willem de Kooning's controversial paintings of women as fragmented lumps of matter with bared teeth and googly eyes were being produced and exhibited at roughly the same time that Wolverton's female grotesques were in wide circulation.
She was the author of many research papers and wrote one book, The Circulation In The Female From The Cradle To The Grave (1989), and co-edited two more, Drug Therapy In Reproductive Endocrinology (1995) and Sex Steroids And The Circulatory System (1987).
By contrast, motile cilia are required for lung clearance, establishment of left-right (L-R) patterning during development, male and female fertility, and cerebrospinal fluid circulation (see Box 1).
As the acute-phase reactant, liver protein MBL is thought to transudate from the blood circulation into the female genital tract, this could account for the level variations seen in vulvovaginal fluids according to the individual's MBL2 genotypes [ 14].
Our previous manuscript [ 13] was therefore focused on alterations occurring in the pulmonary circulation of adult females.
Interestingly, 2-hydroxyestrogen but not 16α-hydroxyestrogen has increased clearance rate from the circulation of premenopausal females smokers [ 44, 45], suggesting a differential effect of estrogen metabolism.
Some of them are detected in the peripheral circulation of pregnant females, and are used as a tool to investigate placental function in ongoing or endangered pregnancies [ 7- 9].
Both endogenous and exogenous hormones have shown to induce elevated levels of BNP/NT-proBNP in circulation therefore pregnant females, those on hormonal therapy or taking contraceptives were also not included in this study group [ 26, 27].
A predominately female readership fueled Vanity Fair's circulation of more than one million in the first decade of the 21st century.
