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C Mugnier

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[Rehabilitation of the knee movement after ligamentoplasty using Mac Intosh's procedure augmented by Kennedy-Lad: a comparison between recent and old rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament].

About 60 ligamentoplasties of the A.C.L. using the Mac Intosh procedure with augmentation by the Kennedy-Lad, the authors compare the rehabilitation of knee motion between fresh tears (30 cases) and old tears (30 cases) of the A.C.L. operated on by the same procedure. All the operations were performed by the same surgeon. The rehabilitation program was the same for everybody; no plaster cast, total weight-bearing after the 15th day, no more crutches-stick after the 21th day and beginning of flexion on the 12th day, 88 per cent of the knees were rehabilitated by the same physiotherapists. The plaster cast is usually incriminated to be the main reason of post-operative knee stiffness. But no plaster cast for fresh A.C.L. tear also give such a stiffness (16.5 per cent). The authors think that the initial injury increased by the surgical trauma, for a non conditioned patient are the main factors of post-operative stiffnesses. This study justifies the late reconstruction of "isolated" A.C.L. tears (between the 2nd and 3rd month), after "cooling down" of the lesions.

Adolescent

Restriction map construction using a 'complete sentences compatibility' algorithm.

We have developed a new algorithm 'Complete sentences compatibility' (CSC) which uses single and double digestion fragments to rapidly determine restriction maps of circular DNA. From possible combinations of fragments of each simple digestion, which we call 'sentences of decomposition', we construct a restriction map which combines the sentences while taking into account compatibility rules. The algorithm can also deal with experimental errors of fragment weight and can suggest solutions that account for non-readable bands (fragments of zero length or multiple bands) on the gel. Because experiments using pairs of restrictive enzymes often result in multiple solutions, a complementary algorithm tries to reduce the number of proposed solutions by establishing consensus maps. The restriction map construction algorithm was tested on real cases, some containing more than fifteen fragments. Execution times range from 1-10 s on an IBM PC compatible microcomputer.

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A computer program for the design of optimal synthetic oligonucleotide probes for protein coding genes.

A computer program has been written in FORTRAN 77 to locate on a protein sequence a region with optimum length and limited degeneracy in order to design artificial oligonucleotide probes for use in molecular cloning. In addition the program checks for regions of homology between this probe and any other base sequence found in nucleotide sequence data banks. There are options in the program to eliminate rare codons or to make preferential choices of bases in order to minimize the degeneracy of probes.

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