TOWARD THE RESTORATION OF HAND USE TO A PARALYZED MONKEY: BRAIN-CONTROLLED FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION OF FOREARM MUSCLES.

Toward the restoration of hand use to a paralyzed monkey: brain-controlled functional electrical stimulation of forearm muscles.

Loss of hand use is considered by many spinal cord injury survivors to be the most devastating consequence of their injury.Functional electrical stimulation (FES) of forearm and hand muscles has been used to provide basic, voluntary hand grasp to hundreds of human patients.Current approaches typically grade pre-programmed patterns of muscle activat

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Pre-clinical modeling of cutaneous melanoma

Despite the new targeted and immunotherapies for metastatic deus gorras melanoma, several patients show therapeutic plateau.Here, the authors review the current pre-clinical models of cutaneous melanoma and discuss their click here strengths and limitations that may help with overcoming therapeutic plateau.

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Descriptive multi-agent epidemiology via molecular screening on Atlantic salmon farms in the northeast Pacific Ocean

Abstract Rapid expansion of salmon aquaculture has resulted in high-density populations that host diverse infectious agents, for which surveillance and monitoring are critical to disease management.Screening can reveal infection diversity from which disease arises, differential patterns of infection in live and dead fish that are difficult to colle

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BANK RISK EVALUATION THROUGH Z-SCORE MEASURE AND ITS EFFECT ON FINANCIAL HEALTH OF THE INDUSTRY OF TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY OF KAZAKHSTAN

Studying the systematic risk of the banking industry, as a measure of the financial stability, is one of the options to evaluate how strong is here the overall industry’s standings against the systematic risk itself.There are number of studies in related areas for both developed and developing markets.This study is the part of the overall examina

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