When compressed within the patients' level of pain tolerance, active MTrPs produce referred motor phenomena and often sympathetic hyperactivity, (generally in the pain reference zone), and cause tenderness in the pain reference zone.
The strain related to a reference zone chosen in the GaAs buffer was determined with a spatial resolution better than 1 nm, by means of geometrical phase analysis of the HR-TEM images [13, 14].
Following the linear elasticity and taking into account the fact that ϵ is measured related to a GaAs reference zone, ϵ is related to the misfit f through ϵ = (1 + 2C12/C11)f.
Additional measurements were then performed in 110 subjects randomly selected from zone A and B and the non-contaminated reference zone in the early nineties [ 15].
The proportions of subjects who moved outside Lombardy were 5.8%, 6.7%, 4.7% for the exposed zones (A, B, R) and 5.6% for the reference zone.
Aside of this, two sites within a reference zone were selected (with similar exposure, relief, lithology, altitude, and condition) to make a comparison with the polluted zone.
We also measured the area of the nucleus in each cell as a reference zone related to total cell surface size.
The cancer incidence analysis was based on people living in the contaminated area (352 men in area A, 2,471 men in zone B, 15,715 men in zone R, and 88,349 men in the reference zone) [ 151].
Rate ratios (RR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) for zones A, B, R vs the reference zone were calculated using Poisson regression models adjusting by gender, age category, and period (five-year classes).
