Coma Recovery Scale
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pH Scale
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2020
Hydronium and hydroxide ions are present both in pure water and in all aqueous solutions, and their concentrations are inversely proportional as determined by the ion product of water (Kw). The concentrations of these ions in a solution are often critical determinants of the solution’s properties and the chemical behaviors of its other solutes. Two different solutions can differ in their hydronium or hydroxide ion concentrations by a million, billion, or even trillion times. A common means of...
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Cerebral Ischemic Coma Model Induced by Modified Four-Vessel Occlusion
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2024
This protocol describes the process for inducing a cerebral ischemic coma model using a modified four-vessel occlusion method.
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Microfluidic Devices for Characterizing Pore-scale Event Processes in Porous Media for Oil Recovery Applications
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2018
The goal of this procedure is to easily and rapidly produce a microfluidic device with customizable geometry and resistance to swelling by organic fluids for oil recovery studies. A polydimethylsiloxane mold is first generated, and then used to cast the epoxy-based device. A representative displacement study is reported.
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Antibody Staining of Scale Melanocytes: A Technique to Detect Transcription Factors Expressed in Dorsal Scale-associated Melanocytes of Zebrafish Models
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2023
This video describes the antibody staining method to detect transcription factors expression in dorsal scale-associated melanocytes of zebrafish models. This immunostaining technique helps specifically identify the melanocyte-inducing transfection factor-A in the transgenic zebrafish.
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Non-invasive Assessments of Subjective and Objective Recovery Characteristics Following an Exhaustive Jump Protocol
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2017
This protocol describes the procedure for non-invasive recovery assessments during a 72 h recovery period. This protocol induces muscular exhaustion of the frontal thighs using countermovement jumps and uses either local cold-cuff or thermoneutral-cuff application as a recovery modality.
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The scale focuses on whether observed behavior reflects an automatic reaction or a goal-directed response. This distinction is important because purposeful responses can indicate a higher level of consciousness than reflexive activity alone. Identifying such changes helps clinicians recognize transitions toward a minimally conscious state or emergence from that state during ongoing behavioral evaluation.
Observations address arousal, auditory and visual responses, motor behavior, communication, and oromotor function. Examining several domains prevents interpretation from relying on a single type of response, especially when severe brain injury affects behavior unevenly. The combined pattern can reveal subtle changes that may be missed if clinicians consider only movement, speech, or responsiveness.
A single observation may not capture changing levels of responsiveness, so repeated scores provide a way to follow behavioral change over time. Trends can help distinguish an isolated response from a consistent improvement, support diagnostic and prognostic decisions, and show whether rehabilitation planning should be adjusted as the person's observed behavior changes.
Clinicians use structured observations across the scale's behavioral domains, including arousal, sensory responses, motor behavior, communication, and oromotor function. They record the responses that occur during the assessment and compare findings across repeated administrations. This organized approach supports consistent communication among care teams and makes changes in behavior easier to track.
The results provide behavioral information that can help care teams identify meaningful changes in responsiveness and determine how recovery is progressing. By documenting patterns across assessment domains and over time, clinicians can support rehabilitation planning, communicate treatment progress, and incorporate observed changes into broader diagnostic and prognostic decisions.
In research, the scale supplies a consistent behavioral framework for studying disorders of consciousness and evaluating interventions intended to improve functional recovery. Repeated observations and domain-specific findings allow investigators to describe changes in a comparable way across assessments. Its use also connects research measurements with clinically relevant patterns of responsiveness and recovery.