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PubMed2006

[Study on clinical effectiveness of acupuncture and moxibustion on acute Bell's facial paralysis: randomized controlled clinical observation].

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the adverse effects of acupuncture on the prognosis, and effectiveness of acupuncture combined with far infrared ray in the patient of acute Bell's facial paralysis within 48 h. METHODS: Clinically randomized controlled trial was used, and the patients were divided into 3 groups: group A (early acupuncture group), group B (acupuncture combined with far infrared ray) and group C (acupuncture after 7 days). The facial nerve functional classification at the attack, 7 days after the attack and after treatment, the clinically cured rate of following-up of 6 months, and the average cured time, the cured time of complete facial paralysis were observed in the 3 groups. RESULTS: There were no significant differences among the 3 groups in the facial nerve functional classification 7 days after the attack, the clinically cured rate of following-up of 6 months and the average cured time (P > 0.05), but the cured time of complete facial paralysis in the group A and the group B were shorter than that in the group C (P < 0.05). CONCLUSION: The patient of acute Bell's facial paralysis can be treated with acupuncture and moxibustion, and traditional moxibustion can be replaced by far infrared way.

Acupuncture Therapy↗
PubMed2006

Resolution of intractable hiccups after near-infrared irradiation of relevant acupoints.

BACKGROUND: Intractable hiccups are occasionally encountered in the presence of stroke but are usually difficult to manage. METHODS: We describe two stroke patients with intractable hiccups that were refractory to pharmacological treatment but were well resolved by application to relevant acupoints with the modality linear polarized near-infrared ray equipment on PC 6 (Nei Guan), ST 36 (Zu San Li), and DU 9 (Chih Yang), which are the empirical acupoints aimed at regulating gastrointestinal mobility and function of the thoracic organ. RESULTS: The first patient who received the treatment for only one time came out with a dramatic termination of intractable hiccups 3 hours later and with no recurrence thereafter. We applied the same treatment on the second patient once a day for 8 consecutive days, which led to progressive amelioration of intractable hiccups. CONCLUSIONS: This is the first report about the complete resolution of intractable hiccups due to stroke using near-infrared irradiation to acupoints, rather than using conventional pharmacologic therapy, traditional acupuncture, or moxibustion. Consequently, these findings suggest that linear polarized near-infrared ray irradiation, with its noninvasive properties, might be an alternative treatment for intractable hiccups after stroke.

Acupuncture Points↗
PubMed2006

Proton transfer mediated by the vibronic coupling in oxygen core ionized states of glyoxalmonoxime studied by infrared-X-ray pump-probe spectroscopy.

The theory of IR-X-ray pump-probe spectroscopy beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation is developed and applied to the study of the dynamics of intramolecular proton transfer in glyoxalmonoxime leading to the formation of the tautomer 2-nitrosoethenol. Due to the IR pump pulses the molecule gains sufficient energy to promote a proton to a weakly bound well. A femtosecond X-ray pulse snapshots the wave packet route and, hence, the dynamics of the proton transfer. The glyoxalmonoxime molecule contains two chemically nonequivalent oxygen atoms that possess distinct roles in the hydrogen bond, a hydrogen donor and an acceptor. Core ionizations of these form two intersecting core-ionized states, the vibronic coupling between which along the OH stretching mode partially delocalizes the core hole, resulting in a hopping of the core hole from one site to another. This, in turn, affects the dynamics of the proton transfer in the core-ionized state. The quantum dynamical simulations of X-ray photoelectron spectra of glyoxalmonoxime driven by strong IR pulses demonstrate the general applicability of the technique for studies of intramolecular proton transfer in systems with vibronic coupling.

Journal Article↗
PubMed1999

[Development of the automatic dental X-ray film processor].

This paper introduces a multiple-point detecting technique of the density of dental X-ray films. With the infrared ray multiple-point detecting technique, a single-chip microcomputer control system is used to analyze the effectiveness of the film-developing in real time in order to achieve a good image. Based on the new technology, We designed the intelligent automatic dental X-ray film processing.

Equipment Design↗
PubMed1975

[Effect of IR rays on the titers and protein fractions of the blood serum in chicks vaccinated with La Sota vaccine].

Studied was the effect of infrared rays on the titers and the protein fractions of the blood serum in birds treated with the La Sota vaccine. Results showed that the gamma-globulin fraction and the titers rise as established through the hemagglutination-inhibiton reaction. This made it reasonable to believe that the reticuloendothelial system was favourably activated as regards the immunogenesis against the Newcastle Disease virus. The rise in the gamma-globulin level coincides in time with the highest titer as found by means of the agglutination-inhibition reaction, the titers in all experiments being higher in the sera of the irradiated birds and the variations on the 20th day being mathematically significant.

Animals↗
PubMed2006

Molecular orientation analysis of a single-monolayer Langmuir-Blodgett film on a thin glass plate by infrared multiple-angle incidence resolution spectrometry.

Molecular orientation analysis in a single monolayer deposited on a glass substrate has been a difficult matter, since the glass substrate absorbs infrared rays so strongly that the measurements of infrared spectra are difficult to perform, and the single monolayer is not suitable for X-ray diffraction analysis because no periodical structure is available. When a thin glass is used as the substrate, in particular, the infrared analysis becomes more difficult, since optical fringes appear strongly on the absorption spectra due to the multiple reflections in the glass. In the present study, infrared multiple-angle incidence resolution spectrometry (MAIRS) has been employed to remove the fringes from the spectra of single- and five-monolayer Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films of cadmium stearate deposited on a thin glass plate. The MAIRS in-plane spectra gave quantitatively reliable infrared transmission spectra for both films with little fringes, which made it possible for the first time to analyze the molecular orientation in the single-monolayer LB film on glass. As a result, it has been revealed that the molecule in the single-monolayer LB film on thin glass exhibits a significantly larger molecular tilt angle than those prepared on other substrates such as gold and germanium.

Journal Article↗
PubMed2000

[Design of a infrared single-channel ECG telemetry system].

A single-channel ECG telemetry system with infrared rays as the medium was designed. It can be used to monitor the subject's ECG in real-time. This system has functions of detecting abnormal ECG, alarming, dieplaying, storing and printing. It is a beneficial attempt in the clinical application of the infrared telemetry.

Electrocardiography↗
PubMed2002

Basic studies on a labeled anti-mucin antibody detectable by infrared-fluorescence endoscopy.

BACKGROUND: We developed a fluorescent dye, indocyanine green (ICG)-sulfo-OSu, which was excited by infrared rays and conjugated to various antibodies. We attempted to clarify the staining patterns of antisulfomucin and anti-MUC1 antibodies in gastrointestinal cancer. We then evaluated the potential of the dye as a fluorescent label for antibodies specific to cancer, to be used as a diagnostic method for microcancer, with infrared fluorescence endoscopy. METHODS: Paraffin sections of samples collected from 10 patients with esophageal cancer, 30 patients with gastric cancer, and 20 patients with colorectal cancer were immunohistologically stained using an anti-sulfomucin antibody and an anti-MUC1 antibody, and the staining patterns were examined. If a section had a high staining intensity, it was reacted with the ICG-suflo-OSu-labeled antibody and evaluated with infrared fluorescence imaging. RESULTS: The staining patterns with the antibodies varied depending on the organs and the histological types and depth of the cancers, but the staining was generally good and the staining on the mucosal surface of cancer tissues was retained. Good images of cancer cells could be obtained by infrared fluorescence observation using the ICG-sulfo-OSu-labeled anti-MUC1 antibody. CONCLUSIONS: The anti-MUC1 antibody stained gastrointestinal cancer cells well, and nearly specific infrared fluorescence in cancer tissues was observed using the labeled anti-MUC1 antibody. The ICG-sulfo-OSu-labeled anti-MUC1 antibody has possible usefulness for the screening of cancer via infrared fluorescence endoscopy.

Antibodies, Monoclonal↗
PubMedDate not supplied

Linear polarized near-infrared irradiation stimulates mechanical expansion of the rat sagittal suture.

Mechanical sutural separation has been carried out in clinical orthodontics for controlling the growth of the craniofacial skeleton. This study was designed to evaluate the effects of linear polarized near-infrared ray irradiation on the sutural expansion of rat sagittal suture. Twenty 8-week-old Wistar strain male rats were equally divided into experimental and control groups. Suture expansion was carried out for 5 days for all animals using an expansion appliance. The experimental animals were subjected to linear polarized near-infrared irradiation. This study has demonstrated that linear polarized near-infrared irradiation stimulates sutural expansion without any pathological changes.

Animals↗
PubMed1990

[Rapid diagnosis of the depth of burns in the first few days after trauma].

An original method of express diagnostics of the burn depth during first days after trauma is described which used an infrared probe based on different ability of healthy and burned skin with different depths of the burn to reflect infrared rays. A description of clinical tests of the method is given, their reliability was 94.2%.

Adolescent↗
PubMed2006

Effect of the wavelength of infrared heaters on the inactivation of bacterial spores at various water activities.

Bacterial spores (Bacillus subtilis subsp. subtilis NBRC 16183) inoculated onto a stainless steel Petri dish and treated at nine levels of water activity (a(w)) for 2 days were inactivated by infrared radiation heating (IRH) using three kinds of infrared heaters with different radiation spectra. The peak wavelengths used were 950, 1,100 and 1,150 nm. In general, the inactivating efficacy of IRH treatment against bacterial spores with shorter wavelength heater (950 nm) was greater than that with other heaters. The decimal reduction times (D value) calculated using the linear portion of survival curves were affected by both the initial a(w) values and the spectra of the infrared rays. Spores at approximately 0.9, 0.7 and 0.6 a(w) were most resistant to IRH at wavelengths of 950, 1,100 and 1,150 nm, respectively. The a(w) values that led to maximum D values for bacterial spores increased as the wavelength was shortened. Optimum a(w) values were identified for the inactivation of bacterial spores by IRH. Spore resistance to IRH could also be affected by the spectral characteristics of the infrared absorption, which varied with the a(w) of bacterial spores.

Bacillus subtilis↗
PubMed2006

Differential analysis of D-beta-Asp-containing proteins found in normal and infrared irradiated rabbit lens.

Although proteins are generally composed of l-alpha-amino acids, d-beta-aspartic acid (Asp)-containing proteins have been reported in various elderly tissues. Our previous study detected several d-beta-Asp-containing proteins in a rabbit lens derived from epithelial cell line by Western blot analysis of a 2D-gel using a polyclonal antibody that is highly specific for d-beta-Asp-containing proteins. The identity of each spot was subsequently determined by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry and the Ms-Fit online database searching algorithm. In this study, we discovered novel d-beta-Asp-containing proteins from rabbit lens. The results indicate that beta-crystallin A3, beta-crystallin A4, beta-crystallin B1, beta-crystallin B2, beta-crystallin B3, gamma-crystallin C, gamma-crystallin D, and lambda-crystallin in rabbit lens contain d-beta-Asp residues. Furthermore, the occurrence of d-beta-Asp residues increases with infrared ray (IR) irradiation. Additionally, some d-beta-Asp-containing proteins only appear after IR irradiation. One such protein is the alpha-enolase, which shows homology to tau-crystallin.

Animals↗
PubMed1990

[Postextraction hemorrhage: treatment with an infrared photocoagulative technic].

The use of the infrared ray photocoagulative technique is reported in 80 patients with moderate and/or intensive postextraction haemorrhage. The results obtained confirm the effectiveness of the technique in dentistry in which it has thus for not been used, with the purpose of making choice of suitable haemostatic technique wider in case of need.

Adult↗
PubMed1999

Microvasculature of crotaline snake pit organs: possible function as a heat exchange mechanism.

The infrared sensory membranes of the pit organs of pit vipers have an extremely rich capillary vasculature, which has been noted passim in the literature, but never illustrated or studied in detail. We rendered the pit vasculature visible in various ways, namely, by microinjection of India ink, by a combination of ink and succinate dehydrogenase staining, and by making resin casts for scanning electron microscope study. We also used transmission electron microscopy for identifying the types (arterioles, venules, capillaries) of blood vessels. Then we compared the pit vasculature with that of the retina and the dermis. Good visualization of the vasculature was obtained with both ink and resin injection. Arterioles, venules, and capillaries could be distinguished with all methods used. The monolayer vasculature was denser in the pit membrane than in the retina or skin. Each loop of the network enclosed a small number of infrared receptors so that all receptors were in contact with a capillary on at least one side. The forward-looking areas of the pit had a denser network than side-looking areas. Since infrared rays cause nerve impulses by raising the temperature of individual receptors, the capillary network functions not only as a supplier of energy but also as a cooling mechanism to reduce afterimages. Thus the denser network in the forward-looking areas causes these areas to be more sensitive and have better image resolution than the rest of the membrane.

Agkistrodon↗
PubMed1963

Solar retinitis.

Retinal burns can be produced by direct gazing at the sun. This lesion is caused by the thermal effects of the visible and near infrared rays focused on the pigment structure behind the retina. It is rarely seen, as the normal eye will tolerate only fleeting glances at the sun, but is fairly common during a solar eclipse. A case of solar retinitis is presented in which treatment with corticosteroids lessened the retinal edema but the patient suffered a bilateral central scotoma and vision reduced to the 20/40 level. In viewing a solar eclipse a No. 4 density filter is recommended; as a rough test this filter will abolish the readability of print on a 60-watt incandescent frosted electric light bulb.

Cicatrix↗
PubMed2006

Cellular responses of the ciliate, Tetrahymena thermophila, to far infrared irradiation.

Infrared rays from sunlight permeate the earth's atmosphere, yet little is known about their interactions with living organisms. To learn whether they affect cell structure and function, we tested the ciliated protozoan, Tetrahymena thermophila. These unicellular eukaryotes aggregate in swarms near the surface of freshwater habitats, where direct and diffuse solar radiation impinge upon the water-air interface. We report that populations irradiated in laboratory cultures grew and mated normally, but major changes occurred in cell physiology during the stationary phase. Early on, there were significant reductions in chromatin body size and the antibody reactivity of methyl groups on lysine residues 4 and 9 in histone H3. Later, when cells began to starve, messenger RNAs for key proteins related to chromatin structure, intermediary metabolism and cellular motility increased from two- to nearly nine-fold. Metabolic activity, swimming speed and linearity of motion also increased, and spindle shaped cells with a caudal cilium appeared. Our findings suggest that infrared radiation enhances differentiation towards a dispersal cell-like phenotype in saturated populations of Tetrahymena thermophila.

Animals↗