膝关节动态有限元模型的力学分析

背景：膝关节具有解剖结构复杂性,活动多样性的特点。目前人体膝关节的生物力学研究由于不能进行直接的人体实验而进展缓慢,在尸体上进行实验又不具备正常人体的生理环境,其实验结果并不准确。 目的：采用了工程学的有限元分析方法,在无创、活体的条件下,研究膝关节各部位的受力情况。 方法：利用CT图像建立膝关节的三维动态有限元模型,在膝关节0°-90°范围内分析前后交叉韧带和髌股关节的受力。 结果与结论：前交叉韧带在屈膝0°时张力最大,然后逐渐减小,在屈膝50°-90°之间无明显变化,而后交叉韧带恰恰相反,在屈膝0°-50°时变化不大,之后逐渐增大,屈膝90°时达到最大值。髌股关节受力分析发现,髌股关节的压力是随着角度逐渐增大的。提示膝关节动态三维有限元模型能够逼真模拟膝关节活动,研究正常人膝关节各部位的受力,是骨科生物力学分析的有效工具。     

膝关节矢状面机构模型

建立矢状面上膝关节二维机构模型，求解矢状面髌股关节求解屈膝过程中髌骨与股骨的接触点移动，髌骨倾角、髌韧带倾角变化，髌股关节功能角变化以及髌股接触力和髌韧带作用力的变化等髌股关节运动及动力学参数．依据膝关节主要组成部分的功能及相互间连接关系，以股胫关节交叉四连杆模型为基础，通过对髌股关节的几何描述及力平衡限定，并运用ADAMS软件进行分析计算，计算结果与文献实验结果吻合良好。     

带血供大收肌腱转位修复膝关节韧带的应用解剖及临床应用

目的:报道以膝上内侧血管为蒂大收肌腱转位重建膝关节韧带断裂缺损的应用解剖及术式设计.方法:40侧经动脉灌注红色乳胶成人标本,解剖观测大收肌腱的形态及其血供,2侧新鲜下肢标本模拟手术设计.以膝上内侧血管为蒂大收肌腱转位修复膝关节韧带断裂缺损.结果:应用带血供大收肌腱转位修复胫侧副韧带30例,胫侧副韧带和前交叉韧带8例,胫侧副韧带和后交叉韧带4例,多韧带损伤1例,经随访疗效较为满意.结论:大收肌腱与膝关节毗邻,与膝关节韧带形态近似,以膝上内侧血管为蒂转位修复重建胫侧副韧带尤为理想.     

带血供大收肌腱转位修复膝关节韧带的应用解剖及临床 …

目的：报道以膝上内侧血管为蒂大收肌腱转位重建膝关节韧带断裂缺损的应用解剖及术式设计。方法：４０侧经动脉灌注红色乳胶成人标本,解剖观测大收肌腱的形态及其血供,２侧新鲜下肢标本模拟手术设计。以膝上内侧血管为蒂大收肌腱转位修复膝关节韧带断裂缺损。结果：应用带血供大收肌腱转位修复胫侧副韧带３０例,胫侧副韧带和前交叉韧带８例,胫侧副韧带和后交叉韧带４例,多韧带损伤１例,经随访疗效为满意。结论：大收肌腱与膝关     

UKA 关节线安装误差对膝关节接触力学和运动学影响

目的 针对单髁膝关节置换(unicompartmental knee arthroplasty, UKA)内侧假体松动和外侧关节软骨退化问题,通过骨肌多体动力学方法研究不同生理活动中UKA关节线安装误差对膝关节接触力学和运动学的影响。方法 以内侧自然关节线为0 mm误差,分别考虑±2 mm、±4 mm、±6 mm共6种关节线安装误差情况,建立7个内侧UKA置换的骨肌多体动力学模型,对比研究步行和下蹲运动中膝关节接触力学和运动学的变化。结果 在步行步态周期70%时,相比于0 mm误差UKA假体关节线升高2 mm时内侧假体接触力增大127.3%,外侧软骨接触力减少12.0%;在UKA假体关节线降低4 mm时内侧假体接触力接近0 N,外侧软骨接触力增大10.1%;胫股关节总接触力在关节线升高和降低2 mm时分别增大19.7%和减小14.2%。在下蹲屈膝100°时,相比于0 mm误差膝关节内侧假体接触力和胫股骨关节总接触力在UKA假体关节线升高2 mm时分别增大31.6%和11.1%,在UKA假体关节线降低2 mm时分别减小24.5%和8.5%,而膝关节外侧软骨接触力变化不大。同时,在步行步态...     

关节镜下前交叉韧带重建移植物的研究进展

膝关节前交叉韧带（Anterior Crueiate LigamentACL）是膝关节重要的静力与动力性稳定结构，与其他韧带一起共同保持胫股关节的正常运动。在解剖学上一般将其分为长而细小的前内侧束（AM束）和大而粗短的后外侧束（PL束），亦有作者将其分为三个束：即前内、中间和后外侧束（AM，IM及PL束）。     

自体肌腱移植修复前交叉韧带合并后外侧角损伤

背景：自体半腱和股薄肌腱移植均可重建交叉韧带和膝关节后外侧角。 目的：分析自体半腱和股薄肌腱移植修复膝关节前交叉韧带合并后外侧角损伤的效果。 方法：将20例膝关节前交叉韧带合并后外侧角损伤患者随机分成两组：实验组在关节镜辅助下应用自体半腱肌、股薄肌一期重建前交叉韧带和加强重建后外侧角韧带;对照组仅采用自体组半腱肌、股薄肌一期重建前交叉韧带。  结果与结论：两组术后Lysom评分较术前明显改善(P < 0.01)。实验组患者在站立、行走和上下楼梯时无与膝关节后外侧不稳相关的过伸位膝关节不稳感,未发现行走时膝关节内甩;关节活动度屈曲100°~135°,伸直0°~10°。对照组中3例在站立,行走和上下楼梯时无与膝关节后外侧不稳相关的过伸位膝关节不稳感,4例行走时出现轻微膝关节内甩;关节活动度屈曲104°~130°,伸直0°~10°。说明用自体肌腱移植重建膝关节前交叉韧带和后外侧结构损伤,能够恢复膝关节后外侧与前后方的稳定性,较单纯重建前交叉韧带效果好。     

前交叉韧带力学特性差异对膝关节有限元仿真结果的影响

目的研究不同前交叉韧带力学特性对膝关节有限元模拟结果产生的影响。方法基于医学图像数据重建包含主要解剖结构在内的膝关节三维有限元模型,并考虑韧带的横观各向同性特性;用同一种韧带本构方程对3种不同前交叉韧带应力应变力学实验曲线进行参数拟合,对比不同的前交叉韧带力学参数对膝关节运动学和生物力学性能的影响。结果不同的前交叉韧带力学特性会得到不同的膝关节位移结果,前交叉韧带内的应力及应变大小有很大变化,但分布的趋势基本相同。结论选取不同前交叉韧带力学特性曲线会影响膝关节有限元分析的仿真结果,今后在关节组织力学性能的设置、模型的构建及验证中要足够重视。     

人体膝关节韧带生物力学研究进展

韧带是稳定膝关节的主要组成部分。如何在生物力学模型中模拟韧带将会影响膝关节动力学特性以及韧带力．韧带应变和接触力分布的计算。本文就韧带在生物力学模型中的简化方法及其力学参数的选择以作一综述．并提出建模的具体方法。     

基于MRI的全膝有限元模型建立与前交叉韧带重建术模拟方案

目的建立完整的人体膝关节三维有限元模型,并在此基础上建立了用于前交叉韧带重建模拟的胫股骨隧道和人工韧带模型,为进一步分析打下基础。方法以MRI图像作为数据源,运用逆向工程软件Geomagic及有限元分析软件ANSYS9.0,参考大量有关实验测试数据的文献报道,建立所需三维有限元模型。结果建立的膝关节三维有限元模型包括胫腓骨上段、股骨下段、胫股骨软骨层、胫股骨隧道、内外侧半月板、后交叉韧带、内外侧副韧带和髌韧带,几何形状良好。胫腓骨隧道和人工韧带的模拟巧妙简便,基本可以满足有限元分析的需要。结论采用MRI图像建立膝关节三维有限元模型切实可靠,能很好地模拟膝关节内部的真实解剖结构及前交叉韧带重建术中的胫股骨隧道。     

Renal dysplasia and asplenia in two sibs

A family is reported in which two sibs, one male and the other female, both died within 24 hours of birth with enlarged polycystic kidneys. Postmortem histology in the second child showed gross renal dysplasia. In both children the pancreas was enlarged, nodular and cystic but the liver appeared macroscopically normal. In the second child, histological examination confirmed pancreatic fibrosis with cystic dilation of ducts, but showed portal fibrosis with bile duct proliferation in the liver.
This combination of findings is very reminiscent of those in a girl and her brother reported by Ivemark et al. (1959). The children reported here also showed absence or hypoplasia of the spleen, cardiac anomalies and other features of the Ivemark syndrome (Ivemark 1955), a quite different, usually sporadic, congenital disorder. It is suggested that the children described here have a distinct lethal congenital disorder, probably inherited in an autosomal recessive manner.     

Schizophrenia in a North Swedish geographical isolate, 1900–1977. Epidemiology, genetics and biochemistry

Over 200 schizophrenic patients belonging to three major and interrelated pedigree complexes have been investigated over the past 30 years in a North Swedish geographically isolated population, presently numbering about 6,000. An intensive investigation of a number of biochemical correlates and genetic markers in a few selected families belonging to one of the major pedigrees has indicated new strategies for the current research program.
Schizophrenia, as defined operationally, is significantly associated with decreased activities of two enzymes (1) blood platelet monoamine oxidase, (2) plasma dopamine-β-hydroxylase, and (3) with the genetic marker Gc² (group specific antigen). Both enzymes are subject to genetic variation. A positive score for linkage between schizophrenia and low plasma DBH activity has been calculated, but, so far, available data are insufficient for discrimination between linkage and partial contribution of genetically controlled low plasma DBH to the pathogenesis of the disease. Alternatively, both mechanisms could be involved.
As a model for continued research, schizophrenia is explained as based on a double dominant-recessive genotype (Aabb), representing a vulnerability which in about 50 % of cases develops into clinical schizophrenia. It is suggested that the dominant mutation (A) operates on or affects MAO activity, and that the recessive genotype (bb) is instrumental in low variates of DBH activity and very likely such variates within the normal range of physiological variation. Moreover, it is suggested that the combined effects of MAO- and DBH-reduced efficiency on the metabolism of e.g. dopamine could be an essential pathogenic mechanism for the schizophrenic illness which is segregating in this population.     

The dominant diseases of modernized societies as omega-3 essential fatty acid deficiency syndrome: Substrate beriberi

About 1900, modern food selection and processing caused widespread $\text{epidemics}$ of the B vitamin deficiency diseases of beriberi and pellagra which, for genetic reasons, often expressed as different diseases ranging from bowel and heart disease to dermatoses and psychoses. But the B vitamins merely help convert essential fatty acids (EFA) into the prostaglandin (PG) tissue regulators and it now turns out that, through hydrogenation, milling and selection of w3-poor southern foods, we have also been systematically depleting, by as much as 90%, a newly discovered trace Nordic EFA (w3) of special importance to primates and sole precursor of the PG3(4) series, even as a concurrent fiber deficiency increases body demand for EFA. Since substrate EFA is processed by many B vitamin catalysts, an EFA deficiency will mimic a $\text{panh}$ypovitaminosis B, i.e., a mixture of $\text{substrate}$ beriberi and $\text{substrate}$ pellagra resembling vitamin beriberi and pellagra but exhibiting as even more diverse $\text{endemic}$ disease. This would consitute a second stage of the Modern Malnutrition and explain why some workers now hold the dominant diseases of modermized societies to be new, nutritionally based, pellagraform yet lipid-related and to range, once again, from heart disease to psychosis. It is an assumption that our dominant diseases are unrelated to each other or are merely revealed by our diagnostic acumen and therapeutic success; and that hydrogenating millions of tons of food oils annually, to destroy the rancidity producing w3-EFA, is safe for $\text{primates}$. Extensive beriberiform disease is reported here in 32 typical cases taken from medical practice which responds strikingly to linseed oil supplements (60% w3-EFA) in confirmation of identical results in Capuchins.     

What will studies of Fulani individuals naturally exposed to malaria teach us about protective immunity to malaria?

There are an estimated over 200 million yearly cases of malaria worldwide. Despite concerted international effort to combat the disease, it still causes approximately half a million deaths every year, the majority of which are young children with Plasmodium falciparum infection in sub-Saharan Africa. Successes are largely attributed to malaria prevention strategies, such as insecticide-treated mosquito nets and indoor spraying, as well as improved access to existing treatments. One important hurdle to new approaches for the treatment and prevention of malaria is our limited understanding of the biology of Plasmodium infection and its complex interaction with the immune system of its human host. Therefore, the elimination of malaria in Africa not only relies on existing tools to reduce malaria burden, but also requires fundamental research to develop innovative approaches. Here, we summarize our discoveries from investigations of ethnic groups of West Africa who have different susceptibility to malaria.     

'Very sore nights and days': the child's experience of illness in early modern England, c.1580-1720

Sick children were ubiquitous in early modern England, and yet they have received very little attention from historians. Taking the elusive perspective of the child, this article explores the physical, emotional, and spiritual experience of illness in England between approximately 1580 and 1720. What was it like being ill and suffering pain? How did the young respond emotionally to the anticipation of death? It is argued that children’s experiences were characterised by profound ambivalence: illness could be terrifying and distressing, but also a source of emotional and spiritual fulfilment and joy. This interpretation challenges the common assumption amongst medical historians that the experiences of early modern patients were utterly miserable. It also sheds light on children’s emotional feelings for their parents, a subject often overlooked in the historiography of childhood. The primary sources used in this article include diaries, autobiographies, letters, the biographies of pious children, printed possession cases, doctors’ casebooks, and theological treatises concerning the afterlife.     

Guidelines for the Validation and Use of Immunoassays for Determination of Introduced Proteins in Biotechnology Enhanced Crops and Derived Food Ingredients

Recent advancements in agricultural biotechnology have created a need for analytical techniques to determine introduced proteins in crops enhanced through modern biotechnology techniques. These proteins are expressed in plant tissues and may be present in food ingredients. Immunoassays are ideally suited for protein detection and may be used as both quantitative and threshold methods. Microplate ELISA and lateral flow devices are two of the most commonly used immunoassay formats for agricultural biotechnology applications. This paper provides general background information and a discussion of criteria for the validation and application of immunochemical methods to the analysis of proteins introduced into plants and food ingredients using biotechnology methods. It is the result of a collaborative effort of members of the Analytical Environmental Immunochemical Consortium. This collaborative effort represents the combined expertise of several organizations to reach consensus on establishing guidelines for the validation and use of immunoassays. Further, the paper offers developers and users a consistent approach to adopting the technology as well as aid in producing accurate and meaningful results.     

HLA in North Colombia Chimila Amerindians

HLA-A,-B,-C,-DRB1 and -DQB1 alleles have been studied in Chimila Amerindians from Sabana de San Angel (North Colombian Coast) by using high resolution molecular typing. A frequent extended haplotype was found:HLA-A*24:02-B*51:10-C*15:02-BRB1*04:07-DQB1*03:02 (28.7%) which has also been described in Amerinndian Mayos Mexican population (Mexico, California Gulf, Pacific Ocean). Other haplotypes had already been found in Amerindians from Mexico (Pacific and Atlantic Coast), Peru (highlands and Amazon Basin), Bolivia and North USA. A geographic pattern according to HLA allele or haplotype frequencies is lacking in Amerindians, as already known. Also, five new extended haplotypes were found in Chimila Amerindians. Their HLA-A*24:02 high frequencies characteristic is shared with aboriginal populations of Taiwan; also, HLA-C*01:02 high frequencies are found in New Zealand Maoris, New Caledonians and Kimberly Aborigines from Australia. Finally, this study may show a model of evolutionary factors acting and rising one HLA allele frequency (-A*24:02), but not in others that belong to the same or different HLA loci.     

Ultracryotomy: development and application (with examples from the yeast cytology) (author's transl)

The preparation steps usually necessary for obtaining ultrathin frozen sections of biological material (chemical prefixation, enclosing, cryoprotective treatment, freezing, sectioning, and post-staining the sections for transmission electron microscopy) are submitted to a critical analysis. The application of cryo-ultramicrotomy, in particularly for cytochemical purposes, is reviewed. Fundamental considerations of chemical prefixation and poststaining are supported by examples from yeast cytology. Furthermore, the efficiency of the cryo-ultramicrotomy (electron optical resolution of ultrastructural details) is demonstrated on yeast cells and protoplasts.     

The universal muscular chamber. A basic unit of the genitourinary, cardiovascular, gastro-intestinal, skeletal, cutaneous, respiratory and other systems, endocameral hypertension; and spasm, the key to their idiopathic diseases and arthropathies

Starting with the integument, we see many organs are contractile sacs or multiples thereof, which tubes or bags constitute the major part of the entire body. Recognition of this basic unit and its characteristics sheds new light, individually and collectively, on many disorders previously considered unrelated. Muscular tears and perforations develop in the walls of these chambers, being no way peculiar to those organs, wherein, hydrochloric acid occurs. So, it is not necessary to explain the absence of excessive acid from patients who exhibit holes in the gastric, uterine, aortic, duodenal, rectal, pulmonary, retina, and other walls. Muscle, not acid is the great common factor relating idiopathic disorders in the gastrointestinal tract to each other and to similar diseases in other systems. When the units are linked together, the lesions tend to appear as arthropathies, i.e. at the joints. Rephrasing common-place observations, frees us from conventional, conceptual cul-de-sacs. An observation is only as good as its interpretation, so all possibilities must be considered, otherwise, we will remain blinded by our misconceptions.