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Patellar resection during total knee arthroplasty: effect on bone strain and fracture risk
Patellae in small knees, or after severe patellar erosion, may be vulnerable to fracture after resection during arthroplasty. The patellar remnant may be thin, while the polyethylene component has a standard t...
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N-Butyl benzenesulfonamide: a neurotoxic plasticizer inducing a spastic myelopathy in rabbits
N-Butyl benzenesulfonamide (NBBS), a plasticizer used commercially in the polymerization of polyamide compounds, is neurotoxic. Young adult New Zealand white rabbits, inoculated repeatedly with NBBS by the intr....
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Muscle fiber type differentiation and satellite cell populations in normally grown and neonatally denervated muscles in the rat
To examine the neural influence upon fiber type differentiation in develo** muscles, newborn rats were subjected to sciatic nerve dissection, and the denervated extensor digitorum longus (EDL) (white) and so...
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A new model of congenital hydrocephalus in the rat
Hydrocephalic neonates were observed in a small breeding colony of rats. Normal rats from this colony were obtained and brother-sister mated for seven generations. The overall prevalence of hydrocephalics was ...
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Werdnig-Hoffmann disease: Proposal of a pathogenetic mechanism
Light and electron microscopic study and morphometric analysis were performed on the spinal cords and roots from six cases of acute Werdnig-Hoffmann disease and four control cases, in search of the pathogenesi...
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Autoradiographic studies of protein turnover in motoneurons of IDPN-treated rats
Autoradiography was performed in order to envisage the turnover of H3-leucin labeled protein in the perikarya of spinal motoneurons and in the axonal balloons formed after repeated administrations of IDPN (β-β′-i...
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Kuru-plaques in a case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Numerous periodic-acid-Schiff positive plaques occurred in the cerebellum of a patient diagnosed as having Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Microscopic and submicroscopic structures of the plaques were identical wit...
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“Megaconial” mitochondria observed in a case of chronic polymyositis
Bizarre configurations of muscle mitochondria containing paracrystalline inclusions were demonstrated in a clinically and pathologically typical case of chronic polymyositis with Raynaud's syndrome. The probab...