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Glomerular Filtration Rate*

We report three cases of rat mite dermatitis caused by Ornithonysus bacoti(Hirst, 1913), commonly referred to it as the tropicalrat mite. The first case, a 26-year old female had multiple pinhead sized vesicles with peripheral erythematous macule on the upper arms. The second case, a 34-year-old femal had multiple variable sized vesicles with erythematous base on the extremeties. The third case, a 43-year old male had multiple erythematous macules and papules with central punctum on the trunl: and extremities. Histopathologic sections from lesions of the first and second patient showed moderate perivascular lymphahistiocytic infiltration intermingled with some eosinophils. Causative mites, Ornithonyssus bacoti, female were collected around the skin lesion in rase 1, from the house dust in case 2 and furniture in case 3.
Adult ; Animals ; Arm ; Dermatitis* ; Dust ; Eosinophils ; Extremities ; Female ; Humans ; Interior Design and Furnishings ; Male ; Mites* ; Rats* ; Skin

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Animals ; Embryonic Development* ; Embryonic Structures* ; Evans Blue* ; Female ; Humans* ; Methylene Blue* ; Mice* ; Pregnancy ; Sperm Motility* ; Spermatozoa*

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Synostosis*

As Kelsey stated “Four out of five individuals will have a significant complaint of back painat one time or another in their lives and impairment of the spine are the most frequent cause of time lost from work”., low back pain affects the quality of life for just about everyone, medical and economic impacts of low back pain are enormous. Nevertheless, neither the government not industry has been seriously involved in the study of the cause, prevention, and management of back pain. The purpose of this study was to review and analysis the clinical materials of low back painand draw differences, if any, between discogenic and stenotic low back pain. Three hundreds and fourty nine cases suffering from low back pain and/or sciatic pain, excluded fresh traumatic and inflammatory conditions of the spine, have been admitted and treated at Dept. of orthopaedic surgery, Eul-Ji General Hospital, Dae-Jeon from May, 1981 to April, 1984. They were consisted of H.N.P. (172 cases), Spinal stenosis (61 cases), Spondylolisthesis (42) cases), Degenerative joint Disease of the spine (48 cases), and Others (26 cases). Among them, two hundred and twenty six cases who were followed more than four months were mainly subjectecl to this study.
Back Pain ; Clinical Study ; Hospitals, General ; Intervertebral Disc ; Joint Diseases ; Low Back Pain ; Quality of Life ; Spinal Stenosis ; Spine ; Spondylolisthesis

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Estradiol* ; Female ; Menstrual Cycle* ; Superovulation*

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Arthritis*

OBJECTIVE: We examined how psychotropic medications affected quantitative EEG (qEEG) results among patients with a schizophrenia-spectrum disorder. METHODS: The drugs were clustered into nine groups depending on their mechanism. We hypothesized that drugs would affect the relative power shown in qEEG results independently and investigated the effect of each drug group on relative power using multiple linear regression analysis and independent samples t-tests. RESULTS: We found that antipsychotics other than clozapine induced an increase in the relative power of alpha activity. Clozapine markedly increased slow waves and decreased alpha activity in the occipital area. The main findings for antidepressants and antiepileptic drugs were the beta increment and lithium increased the power of delta and theta activity. However, we found no evident changes in power due to benzodiazepine. CONCLUSION: Our results are generally consistent with previous pharmaco-EEG studies, despite some differences. Therefore, the EEG effect in each drug group could be singled out even under the polypharmacy condition, with the possible exception of benzodiazepines. Our results support using a new methodological approach to identify the qEEG effects of various psychotropic drugs in clinical settings.
Anticonvulsants ; Antidepressive Agents ; Antipsychotic Agents ; Benzodiazepines ; Clozapine ; Electroencephalography ; Humans ; Linear Models ; Lithium ; Polypharmacy ; Psychotropic Drugs