The impact of reminiscent music therapy and robot-assisted rehabilitation on older stroke patients: a protocol for a randomized controlled trial

BackgroundStroke is the main disease that causes the burden of neurological disease, leading to upper limb dysfunction and affecting their self-care abilities.Robot-assisted rehabilitation therapy has been gradually ULTIMATE WAVE BEACHY TEXTURE CREAM GEL used in the rehabilitation of upper limb function after stroke.However, it would be beneficial

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Barriers and enablers to source plasma donation by gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men under revised eligibility criteria: protocol for a multiple stakeholder feasibility study

Abstract Background Blood donation policy in Canada for gay, bisexual and other men who have had sex with men (gbMSM) has changed progressively in the last decade from indefinite deferral to 3-month deferral from last male-to-male sex.Driven by safety data and overseen by the national regulator, more inclusive policies continue to redress the dispa

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Influence of carbon nanotubes on the buckling of microtubule bundles in viscoelastic cytoplasm using nonlocal strain gradient theory

Carbon nanotubes are a new class of microtubule-stabilizing agents since they interact with protein microtubules in living cells, interfering with cell division and inducing apoptosis.In the present work, a modified beam model is developed to investigate the effect of carbon nanotubes on the buckling of microtubule bundles in living cell.A realisti

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Interleukin-11 drives early lung inflammation during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in genetically susceptible mice.

IL-11 is multifunctional cytokine whose physiological role in the lungs during pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is poorly understood.Here, using in vivo administration of specific antibodies against IL-11, we demonstrate for the first time that blocking IL-11 diminishes histopathology and neutrophilic infiltration of the lung tissue in TB-infected genet

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