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An all-inside double-socket ACL reconstruction technique, according to which a femoral socket and a closed tibial socket are provided to accommodate retrograde fixation of at least one graft (for example, a semitendonosus allograft) within the sockets. The closed tibial socket is formed by using a retrograde drill device provided with a retrograde drill cutter detachable from a retrograde drill guide pin. The femoral socket may be formed by the retrograde drill method or by a conventional method, and may be carried out before or after the formation of the tibial socket. The graft is secured in the knee by employing a transversal implant, or by employing an interference screw, and/or a continuous loop/button construct.

The present invention provides compositions that include an extract of human feces, and methods for using such compositions, including methods for replacing or supplementing or modifying a subject's colon microbiota, and methods for treating a disease, pathological condition, and/or iatrogenic condition of the colon.

A method for treating or preventing spontaneous preterm birth in pregnant women and improving neonatal morbidity and mortality. The method includes administering to a pregnant woman in need thereof an effective amount of progesterone sufficient to prolong gestation by minimizing the shortening or effacing of her cervix. Treatment and prophylaxis with progesterone in pregnant women having symptoms of short cervix has been clinically shown to increase neonatal health.

A total artificial spinous process (spino)-laminar prosthesis (TASP-LP) including a body having a portion forming a spinous process extending away from the body, a first lamina portion extending from a first side of the body, and a second lamina portion extending from a second side of the body, wherein the first lamina portion and the second lamina portion are disposed on opposite sides of the spinous process.

A non-contact controllable heater wound covering and method having a peripheral sealing ring covered by a layer to which is attached a heater and this assembly is attached to the skin with an adhesive so that the heater is held proximate the wound area in a non-contact position. The layer and peripheral sealing ring together define a treatment volume proximate the wound. The wound covering includes a programmable active heater control and the sealing ring may dispense water to control the humidity of the treatment volume. One form of active heat is an electrical resistive filament in variable geometric shapes providing versatility in application of heat to different types of wounds and wound area geometries. Another form of active heat is the transfer of a heated gas to the wound covering.

The present invention relates to methods of stimulating stem cell proliferation and engraftment, and methods of preventing and/or treating disorders associated with radiation exposure, chemotherapy, exposed to chemical/biological warfare agents, and/or any other insults affecting rapidly proliferating tissues in a body, or one or more symptoms thereof. In particular, the present invention provides methods of stimulating stem cell proliferation and/or engraftment and methods of preventing and/or treating disorders associated with one or more insults affecting rapidly proliferating tissues in a body (e.g., radiation exposure, chemical and/or biological insults) or one or more symptoms thereof by administering to a subject a composition comprising a Fibroblast Growth Factor-20 (FGF-20) protein, or its fragments, derivatives, variants, homologs, analogs, or a combination thereof.

the invention discloses a space optical camera having on-orbit self-diagnosis and compensation functions, which belongs to the space optical obtaining field. The camera comprises a space camera optical system and a phase difference wavefront detection unit, wherein the space camera optical system is in the form of Cassegrain, coaxial three-mirror, off-axis three-mirror and the like optical systems; and the phase difference wavefront detection unit comprises a focal multistage spliced detector, an out-of-focus multistage spliced detector, a focal detector interface, an out-of-focus detector interface, a data acquisition module, a data preprocessing module, a computing module, a storage module and a control interface. The space optical camera having the on-orbit self-diagnosis and compensation functions is capable of reducing the requirements of a high-performance space optical system for design, structure, thermal control and the like without adding other extra high-precision wavefront measuring device, thereby realizing high-accuracy on-orbit diagnosis and compensation imaging of the space optical system.

The invention is directed to a laterally inserted spinous process plating device and a method for installing the device using a minimally invasive procedure. The device includes a partially threaded bolt as well as a contralateral and ipsilateral fixation plates, a deployment nut, a lag nut and a locking nut. Each fixation plate includes a pair of wing portions that are pivotally connected to one another to facilitate installation. The each of the fixation plates includes anchoring elements.

The invention discloses a method using an improved regularization method to restrain difference global positioning system (DGPS) integer ambiguity ill-condition. The method using the improved regularization method to restrain the DGPS integer ambiguity ill-condition comprises the steps of (1), collecting observation data of a global positioning system (GPS) carrier phase, building a DGPS carrier phase double-difference observation equation; (2) obtaining a floating point solution of DGPS integer ambiguity and a corresponding variance-covariance matrix based on a least square method according to the DGPS carrier phase double-difference observation equation; (3) and using a two-step solution to build a regularization matrix in a Tikhonov regularization algorithm, obtaining a corresponding regularization parameter according to a DFP quasi-newton method, processing the variance-covariance matrix by using the obtained Tikhonov regularization algorithm, restraining ill-condition of the DGPS integer ambiguity, and at last obtaining accurate integer ambiguity. According to the method using the improved regularization method to restrain the DGPS integer ambiguity ill-condition, the improved Tikhonov regularization algorithm is used for restraining the problem of the ill-condition in the DGPS integer ambiguity, the method using the improved regularization method to restrain the DGPS integer ambiguity is beneficial for obtaining the accurate integer ambiguity, and high-accuracy positioning and attitude measurement of DGPS can be achieved.

An alarm capable of determining the flow time remaining of irrigation fluid is disclosed. It is also contemplated that the device can detect a partial or complete blockage in the system or empty fluid bag and alert medical personnel locally or remotely as required. The device is capable of calculating the time remaining before the CBI irrigation fluid in the irrigation fluid bag reaches a pre-set level that necessitates changing the bag or the actual time of day or night when the irrigation will be approaching the critical level. Additionally, the user can be alerted to the CBI irrigation fluid in the irrigation fluid bag reaching a pre-set level that necessitates changing the bag before the fluid level becomes critical.

The invention is directed to non-invasive methods of detecting gastric cancer in an individual in need thereof comprising determining an expression level of inter-alpha-trypsin inhibitor heavy chain H3 (ITIH3) in the individual and comparing the expression level to a control, wherein an increase in the expression level of ITIH3 in the individual compared to the control is indicative of gastric cancer in the individual.

A method of treating areas of the body utilizing ultrasonic vibrations to mix different materials together as to create a therapeutic combination is disclosed. The materials are mixed by passing them through an ultrasound horn vibrating in resonance, having an internal chamber. As the materials pass through the internal chamber, ultrasonic vibrations emanating from and/or echoing off the various walls of the chamber mix the materials into a potentially therapeutic combination. Ultrasonic vibrations emanating from the radiation surface of the horn may be used to spray the created therapeutic combination onto the area of the body to be treated.

A combination cancer therapy based upon catechins, the major biologically active polyphenol in plant products, including green tea extract, and one or more chemotherapeutic agents. A common complication of cancer chemotherapy is neutropenia, and in spite of advances in its prophylactic management is a major cause of risk for the development of serious microbial infections leading to increased morbidity and mortality in both humans and animals. The use of cathechins such as those found in green tea (Camellia sinensis), including but not limited to epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) as nontoxic adjuvant to aid in the prevention of opportunistic microbial infections in patients undergoing immunosuppressive chemotherapy is a novel application. Also contemplated are methods using catechins to ameliorate the immunosuppressive effects of cancer chemotherapy by administering the compound to a patient in need thereof.

The invention discloses a lung respiration monitoring system based on magnetic detection electrical impedance imaging. By means of an excitation source module, excitation signals are introduced to the chest cavity of an imaging body through a plurality of pairs of excitation electrodes bonded to the measured imaging body; a measurement module is composed of a series of measurement coils and used for measuring the magnetic induction intensity of an induced magnetic field caused by exciting current around the chest cavity; a control module is used for controlling the signal excitation and magnetic field measurement process during the whole respiration monitoring; an image reconstructing module obtains the image change of electrical inductance distribution of the chest cavity in the respiration process according to an electrical impedance image reconstruction algorithm on the basis of magnetic field distribution data. According to the system, the measurement coils of any number can be placed in the space around the chest cavity of the imaging body, limitation of a traditional electrical impedance imaging system on measurement information is changed, the system has the advantages of being high in measurement precision, high in speed and reliability and free of injuries to a human body, more importantly, information amount is increased by means of a magnetic field measurement mode, and therefore the electrical impedance reconstructing ill conditioning is changed, the resolution ratio of electrical impedance (or impedance spectrum) images is increased, and the image reconstruction quality is improved.

Cosmetic/pharmaceutical compositions for promoting hair growth and/or retarding hair loss, and/or for increasing the mean diameter of strands of hair and/or decreasing the heterogeneity thereof, and/or for increasing hair density, and/or for improving the quality and/or the appearance of a head of hair, and/or for inducing repigmentation of the hair, contain thus effective amounts of intimate admixture of vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, and zinc and selenium values.

Methods are described for treating inflammatory bowel disease in animals, including humans. Specific avian polyclonal antibodies directed to proinflammatory cytokines (such as IL-6 and TNF) are shown to have a beneficial effect in animal models predictive of human therapy for the treatment of colitis, including Crohn's disease.

The invention discloses an electric impedance imaging system with an open electrode scanning mode. Exciting electrodes introduce an excitation signal emitted from an excitation source into an imaging body; a first measurement electrode and a second measurement electrode carry out one-dimensional or two-dimensional scanning along the surface of the imaging body between the exciting electrodes; a measurement device collects measurement information of the imaging body through the first measurement electrode and the second measurement electrode, and transmits the measurement information to a microprocessor, and the microprocessor processes the measurement information and rebuilds an electric impedance distribution image of the imaging body. According to the electric impedance imaging system disclosed by the invention, limitation of the surface area of the imaging body to the mounting quantity of the first measurement electrode and the second measurement electrode is overcome, the density of arranged measurement electrodes is greatly improved by arrangement of the first measurement electrode and the second measurement electrode; useful information is increased; the ill-condition of rebuilding the electric impedance is improved; the imaging resolution ratio of the electric impedance (or impedance spectroscopy) is improved and the rebuilding quality of the image is also improved.

The subject matter described herein provides non-invasive tape stripping methods for the collection of a skin sample. The tape stripping method includes applying and removing at least one adhesive tape, provided that a skin sample is adhered to the adhesive tape after removal. The at least one adhesive tape is supplied in an adhesive skin sample collection kit. The adhesive skin sample collection kit further comprises a sample collector and instructions for use sheet.

The invention provides a multistep effective method for finite element model updating. Based on the conventional model updating method, updated parameters are arranged, classified, optimized and selected by building sensitivity information array. Then the finite low-order modal information is obtained by employing the structural vibration measurement to update the finite element model step by step. The method has the advantage of solving the problem of ill conditioning of a one-time solution to the model updating equation sets in conventional method, therefore reducing the impact on updating solution from measuring error, giving physical significance to the updating.