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Study design: Distal radius bone mass and density were evaluated in 19 patients with GSD 1 (15 GSD 1a, 4 GSD 1b) by means of peripheral quantitative computed tomography.

Acupuncture provides a means of peripheral stimulation for pain relief.

Recent technological advances have allowed non-invasive assessment of bone strength by means of peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT).

Sympathetic tone does regulate MAP by means of peripheral vasoconstriction in organ beds, but there is ongoing debate about the sympathetic effects on cerebral vasculature [ 19, 20].

Bone mineral density (BMD) was measured for all samples in the cancellous bone of the distal condyles by means of peripheral quantitative computed-tomography using an Xtreme-CT (SCANCO Medical AG, Bassersdorf, Switzerland, resolution 82 μm).

Nevertheless, even under these "perfect" conditions a hand equipped with muscles and sensors in numbers exceeding by magnitudes what can be accomplished in any artificial hand and with direct neural connections by means of peripheral nerves the functional results are very poor unless the treated patients are in their early teens or younger (reviewed in Lundborg 2003).

Here, MFI ratio is defined by the formulation that the MFI of central part (an area of ∼0.29 um2; radius = ∼300 nm) minus MFI of background divides the mean MFI of peripheral part (i.e., the mean value of the MFIs of four areas surrounding central part) minus MFI of background.

Objective: to evaluate immunotherapy as a means of improving peripheral blood flow in chronic leprosy patients.

Interestingly, Mitchell et al.51 have developed a means of modifying peripheral blood leukocytes by coupling them to TRAIL-coated liposomes via E-selectin, in order to create 'unnatural killer cells' that can efficiently lyse CTCs and reduce metastatic burden in mouse models.

This study focuses on Ti 6Al 4V ELI titanium alloy machining by means of plain peripheral down milling process and subsequent modeling of this process, in order to predict surface quality of the workpiece and identify optimal cutting parameters, that lead to minimum surface roughness.

The presence of bacterial infection was confirmed by cultures, and the severity of bone infections was graded by means of radiography, peripheral quantitative CT, and semi-quantitative histology.