So Ramachandran used a mirror box — a compartment into which the patient could insert his right hand and see it reflected at the end of his left arm.
It's easy enough to understand why the mini-fridge is strapped to a hook in the wall and the back of the bathroom mirror has little compartments for your toothbrush and shaving cream, but it took me almost a week to realize that the drawers under my bed, which wouldn't open when I tried them, were not ornamental, as I'd decided, but just extremely sticky.
It has been argued that GBM cells grown for many passages in standard medium do not mirror the stem cell compartment within the original tumor [38].
Furthermore, measurements from the peripheral blood mirror only a secondary compartment of the immune system as the relevant functions take place directly in the lymphoid or tumour or inflamed tissue.
As a4 KO mice were profoundly deaf and displayed enlarged endolymphatic fluid compartments mirroring the alterations in pendrin KO mice, we propose that pendrin and the proton pump co-operate in endolymph homeostasis.
Moreover, mice devoid of the a4 subunit were profoundly deaf and displayed enlarged endolymph compartments, mirroring the alterations in mice with a targeted disruption of the anion-exchanger pendrin.
Veneered in oyster-burl olivewood, it opens to reveal a magical interior of many drawers with engraved mirror fronts that surround a central compartment, a mirrored niche containing two symmetrical half-facades of a house, with tiny windows, stairs and columns.
Soon magicians realized that they could use mirror surfaces to mask secret compartments with the reflection of scenery and empty space.
The next level up, the EX, costs $1,500 more, and besides stability control, also adds alloy wheels, cruise control, steering wheel-mounted paddle shifters, an upgraded audio system with six speakers, U.S.B. jack, a center console with armrest and storage compartment and side mirrors with integrated turn signals.
Several groups have used bronchoscopy in healthy volunteers to investigate the impact of inhalation of LPS or LPS challenge on local inflammatory responses in the alveolar compartment, which is mirrored by invasion of neutrophils, and an increase in pro-inflammatory cytokines in the BALF, [ 36, 37].
