Stem Cell Research

Robotic therapy for chronic stroke: general recovery of impairment or improved task-specific skill?

There is a great need to develop new approaches for rehabilitation of the upper limb after stroke. R...

CYP19A1 Genetic Polymorphisms rs4646 and Osteoporosis in Patients Treated with Aromatase Inhibitor-Based Adjuvant Therapy.

OBJECTIVE: Third-generation aromatase inhibitors (AI) are potent suppressors of aromatase activity. ...

Soluble CD163 and monocyte populations in response to antiretroviral therapy and in relationship with neuropsychological testing among HIV-infected children.

BACKGROUND: Monocytes play a central role in HIV neuropathogenesis, but there are limited data on mo...

Response to: "No evidence for improved TORS post-treatment feeding tube dependency rate relative to standard therapy in early stage oropharyngeal cancer".

No evidence for improved TORS post-treatment feeding tube dependency rate relative to standard therapy in early stage oropharyngeal cancer.

A study of increase in leg volume during complex physical therapy for leg lymphedema using subcutaneous tissue ultrasonography.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to discuss the mode of increase in leg volume during comple...

The rate of mucosal healing by azathioprine therapy and prediction by artificial systems.

BACKGROUND/AIMS: We aimed to assess the effect of azathioprine on mucosal healing in patients with i...

Practical Recommendations for Robot-Assisted Treadmill Therapy (Lokomat) in Children with Cerebral Palsy: Indications, Goal Setting, and Clinical Implementation within the WHO-ICF Framework.

Active participation and the highest level of independence during daily living are primary goals in ...

Robot-assisted arm assessments in spinal cord injured patients: a consideration of concept study.

Robotic assistance is increasingly used in neurological rehabilitation for enhanced training. Furthe...

Scalable 96-well Plate Based iPSC Culture and Production Using a Robotic Liquid Handling System.

Continued advancement in pluripotent stem cell culture is closing the gap between bench and bedside ...

Knowledge-based radiation therapy (KBRT) treatment planning versus planning by experts: validation of a KBRT algorithm for prostate cancer treatment planning.

BACKGROUND: A knowledge-based radiation therapy (KBRT) treatment planning algorithm was recently dev...

A support vector machine tool for adaptive tomotherapy treatments: Prediction of head and neck patients criticalities.

PURPOSE: Adaptive radiation therapy (ART) is an advanced field of radiation oncology. Image-guided r...

Assessment of robotic patient simulators for training in manual physical therapy examination techniques.

Robots that simulate patients suffering from joint resistance caused by biomechanical and neural imp...

Efficacy of robot-assisted fingers training in chronic stroke survivors: a pilot randomized-controlled trial.

BACKGROUND: While constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT) is one of the most promising techniques...

A Survey of Expectations About the Role of Robots in Robot-Assisted Therapy for Children with ASD: Ethical Acceptability, Trust, Sociability, Appearance, and Attachment.

The use of robots in therapy for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) raises issues concerni...

Upper-limb kinematic reconstruction during stroke robot-aided therapy.

The paper proposes a novel method for an accurate and unobtrusive reconstruction of the upper-limb k...

A fast neural network approach to predict lung tumor motion during respiration for radiation therapy applications.

During radiotherapy treatment for thoracic and abdomen cancers, for example, lung cancers, respirato...

Design and control of an active 1-DoF mechanism for knee rehabilitation.

A 1-DoF robot is designed and fabricated to be used for knee rehabilitation training. The mechanism ...

Safety and efficacy of at-home robotic locomotion therapy in individuals with chronic incomplete spinal cord injury: a prospective, pre-post intervention, proof-of-concept study.

BACKGROUND: The compact Motorized orthosis for home rehabilitation of Gait (MoreGait) was developed ...

Predicting long-term outcome of Internet-delivered cognitive behavior therapy for social anxiety disorder using fMRI and support vector machine learning.

Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is an effective treatment for social anxiety disorder (SAD), but ma...

The HAAPI (Home Arm Assistance Progression Initiative) Trial: A Novel Robotics Delivery Approach in Stroke Rehabilitation.

BACKGROUND: Geographical location, socioeconomic status, and logistics surrounding transportation im...