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Ultrasound-guided femoral and sciatic nerve block in supine position for surgical management of diabetic foot in critical patients: pilot study of 25 cases
Twenty-five patients ASA II-IV suffering from diabetic foot that were previously scheduled for debridement or amputation (lower than the ankle) were recruited to receive the sciatic and femoral nerve block. Al...
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Dopamine Receptor 1 Modulates the Discharge Activities of Inspiratory and Biphasic Expiratory Neurons via cAMP-Dependent Pathways
Dopamine receptor 1 (D1R) plays an essential role in regulating respiratory activity in mammals, however, little is known about how this receptor acts to modulate the basic respiratory rhythmogenesis. Here, by si...
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Open AccessTGF beta1 and related-Smads contribute to pulmonary metastasis of hepatocellular carcinoma in mice model
Recent studies indicate that Transforming Growth Factor beta (TGF β) correlated with pulmonary metastasis of cancers. However, the correlation between TGF β and pulmonary metastasis of hepatocellular carcinoma...
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Glial Cells are Involved in the Exciting Effects of Doxapram on Brainstem Slices In Vitro
This study tested whether the glial cells are involved in the exciting effects of doxapram on brainstem slice in vitro. Experiments were performed in brainstem slice preparations from neonatal rats. The medial...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Autonomous Energy-Aware Routing Scheme: a Supplementary Routing Approach for Path-Preserving Wireless Sensor Networks
One of the hottest research topics is how to reduce energy consumption to prolong the lifetime of a WSN. Some nodes of a WSN may be isolated from others, particularly when all their neighbors have crashed or r...
