Altered Capillary Response to Tape Stripping in Psoriasis and Some Other Dermatoses: The Petechial Threshold Test

Dermatology ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 160 (5) ◽  
pp. 315-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renato G. Staricco
Keyword(s):  
Tape Stripping ◽  
Threshold Test ◽  
Capillary Response

Directors' Liability in Negligence – Challenging the "Elements of the Tort" Approach

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 485
Author(s):  
Victoria Stace
Keyword(s):  
Third Parties ◽  
Duty Of Care ◽  
Constructive Approach ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Threshold Test

This article suggests that the "elements of the tort" approach to directors' liability in negligence to third parties should be discontinued on the basis that assumption of responsibility as a threshold test is not an element of the tort of negligence or negligent misstatement and a more constructive approach would be to address the policy issues associated with imposing liability on directors as part of the two-stage duty of care inquiry.

Acoustic startle threshold test (Mice)

BIO-PROTOCOL ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (24) ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiangge Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Startle ◽  
Threshold Test

Mechanism of the Immediate Capillary Stress Response

1957 ◽  
Vol 188 (2) ◽  
pp. 387-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenö Kramár ◽  
William V. Meyers ◽  
Harry H. McCarthy ◽  
Nicholas Dietz ◽  
Margarete Simay-Kramár ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Stress Response ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Primary Effect ◽  
Biphasic Response ◽  
Capillary Stress ◽  
Thyroid Glands ◽  
Capillary Resistance ◽  
Clinical Conditions ◽  
Capillary Response

Two possibilities may be considered for the mechanism of the immediate capillary stress response: the direct nervous origin, and the humoral. The latter was investigated in this study. Immediate capillary stress response was found in the absence of the adrenal, pituitary or thyroid glands, and after removal of both the adrenals and the pituitary. Among the 10 physiologic substances considered as playing a potential role in this phenomenon, three were found to possess capillary activity. Vasopressin as well as oxytocin increases capillary resistance. Histamine gives rise to a biphasic response, involving a decrease of capillary resistance (primary effect) followed by an increase (due to vasopressin elicited by histamine). By means of these substances it is possible to duplicate the immediate capillary stress response. During the immediate capillary response plasma has antidiuretic and chloruretic properties—a finding compatible with an increased vasopressin concentration and with the assumption that vasopressin is discharged rather regularly in the first phase of the stress response. The immediate capillary stress response seems to be the result of an interplay between vasopressin-oxytocin, and histamine. Species and individual differences in the sensitivity to these substances may account for the various patterns of the capillary response. The possible significance of the immediate capillary response and of the increased vasopressin activity in some clinical conditions is discussed.

Better Olfactory Performance and Larger Olfactory Bulbs in a Mouse Model of Congenital Blindness

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (7) ◽  
pp. 523-531
Author(s):  
Sara Touj ◽  
Samie Cloutier ◽  
Amel Jemâa ◽  
Mathieu Piché ◽  
Gilles Bronchti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Performance Test ◽  
Brain Plasticity ◽  
Olfactory Threshold ◽  
Olfactory Bulbs ◽  
Threshold Test ◽  
Anatomical Plasticity ◽  
Sensory Modalities ◽  
Olfactory Processing ◽  
Granular Layers ◽  
Early Blindness

Abstract It is well established that early blindness results in enhancement of the remaining nonvisual sensory modalities accompanied by functional and anatomical brain plasticity. While auditory and tactile functions have been largely investigated, the results regarding olfactory functions remained less explored and less consistent. In the present study, we investigated olfactory function in blind mice using 3 tests: the buried food test, the olfactory threshold test, and the olfactory performance test. The results indicated better performance of blind mice in the buried food test and odor performance test while there was no difference in the olfactory threshold test. Using histological measurements, we also investigated if there was anatomical plasticity in the olfactory bulbs (OB), the most salient site for olfactory processing. The results indicated a larger volume of the OB driven by larger glomerular and granular layers in blind mice compared with sighted mice. Structural plasticity in the OB may underlie the enhanced olfactory performance in blind mice.

Seasonal variation in adhesive tape stripping of the skin

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 208-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Tokumura ◽  
K. Ohyama ◽  
H. Fujisawa ◽  
H. Nukatsuka
Keyword(s):  
Seasonal Variation ◽  
Tape Stripping ◽  
Adhesive Tape
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