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Contracture
Known as:
contractures muscle
, MUSCLE CONTRACTURE
, Contractures
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Prolonged shortening of the muscle or other soft tissue around a joint, preventing movement of the joint.
National Institutes of Health
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2004
2004
Conjunctivorhinostomy With Rubber-Tipped Jones Tube
Y. Chung
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Gene Kim
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B. Sohn
Annals of Plastic Surgery
2004
Corpus ID: 25550181
One of the problems of conjunctivorhinostomy that employs the conventional Jones tube is that the end of Jones tube has to be…
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Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Myocardial Depressant Effects of Sevoflurane: Mechanical and Electrophysiologic Actions In Vitro
W. Park
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J. Pancrazio
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C. Suh
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C. Lynch
Anesthesiology
1996
Corpus ID: 24566453
Background The effects of anesthetic concentrations of sevoflurane were studied in isolated myocardial tissue to delineate the…
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1984
1984
"Malignant" contracture of the eye socket.
N. Antia
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S. Arora
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
1984
Corpus ID: 36511793
A new method for reconstruction of "malignant" contracture of the eye socket is described using a simple procedure based on the…
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1977
1977
The effects of manganese ions on the contraction of the frog's heart
R. Chapman
,
D. Ellis
Journal of Physiology
1977
Corpus ID: 24382668
1. The effects of Mn2+ in particular but also of Ni2+, Co2+, Cd2+, verapamil and D600 on the contraction of isolated frog atrial…
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1974
Highly Cited
1974
A study of the contractures induced in frog atrial trabeculae by a reduction of the bathing sodium concentration
R. Chapman
Journal of Physiology
1974
Corpus ID: 37167211
1. The relationship between the [Ca]o, the [Na]o and the strength of the contracture evoked when the [Na]o is reduced has been…
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1971
1971
An In-vitro Model of Anesthetic Hypertonic Hyperpyrexia, Halothane—Caffeine-induced Muscle Contractures: Prevention of Contracture by Procainamide
G. Strobel
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C. Bianchi
Anesthesiology
1971
Corpus ID: 21170184
Halothane in concentrations used clinically produces contracture in isolated frog sartorius muscle previously treated with…
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1968
1968
Contracture of phosphorylase deficient muscle.
B. M. R. GRUENER'
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B. E. Ryman
Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
1968
Corpus ID: 26303219
Three distinct enzyme disorders are now known to give rise to the syndrome initially attributed to a lack of phosphorylase in…
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Highly Cited
1967
Highly Cited
1967
Actions of calcium and certain multivalent cations on potassium contracture of guinea‐pig's taenia coli
S. Imai
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K. Takeda
Journal of Physiology
1967
Corpus ID: 36218393
1. Using a calcium buffer system, the effect of severe calcium lack on the shape of K‐contracture of the guinea‐pig's taenia coli…
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1963
1963
Effect of nicotine on cardiac muscle contractions and radiocalcium movement.
W. Nayler
American Journal of Physiology
1963
Corpus ID: 1310170
Nicotine, 0.01–0.1 mm, evoked a positive inotropic response and abolished the "staircase" and poststimulation potentiation in…
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Highly Cited
1957
Highly Cited
1957
Alteration of contractile response of artery strips by a potassium-free solution, cardiac glycosides and changes in stimulation frequency.
E. Leonard
American Journal of Physiology
1957
Corpus ID: 23124380
Electrical stimulation of helically cut strips of rabbit carotid artery, mounted so as to allow development of tension…
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