Search for dissertations about: "hairy skin"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 swedish dissertations containing the words hairy skin.

  2. 1. Functional aspects of tactile directional sensibility

    Author : Helena Backlund; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : Human; directional sensibility; hairy skin; hemispherectomy; postural control; glabrous skin; fMRI; psychophysics;

    Abstract : Tactile directional sensibility, i.e. the ability to tell the movement direction of a moving tactile stimulus, depends on the parallel processing of spatiotemporal information and information about changes in the pattern of skin tension. READ MORE

  4. 2. Measuring the tactile sense: Cortical mechanisms and clinical applications of tactile direction discrimination

    Author : Linda Lundblad; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : AIC; diabetic neuropathy; DLPFC; fMRI; hairy skin; psychophysics; QST testing; somatosensory cortex; tactile direction discrimination;

    Abstract : Most of the studies aiming to investigate the human tactile sense are done on the glabrous skin. Still, there is a need for a quantitative method for evaluating nervous function of the hairy skin. READ MORE

  5. 3. Physiological properties of unmyelinated low-threshold tactile (CT) afferents in the human hairy skin

    Author : Katarina Wiklund Fernström; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : Human; microneurography; mechanoafferent; unmyelinated; sensory; touch; temperature; capsaicin;

    Abstract : For more than a decade it has been known that human skin is supplied with a system of slowly conducting unmyelinated afferents that respond strongly to innocuous skin deformation (Nordin, 1990; Vallbo et al., 1993). READ MORE

  6. 4. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Diabetes. Surgical outcome and nerve pathology

    Author : Niels Thomsen; Malmö Institutionen för kliniska vetenskaper; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; intraepidermal nerve fibre; health-related quality of life; Carpal tunnel syndrome; diabetes mellitus; myelinated nerve fibre; nerve biopsy; nerve conduction study; skin biopsy.;

    Abstract : Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is the most common entrapment neuropathy in the upper extremity. Diabetes mellitus increases the risk of developing CTS from an estimated prevalence of 2-4% in the general population to 15-30% in diabetics. READ MORE

  7. 5. Malignant melanoma of the vulva

    Author : Boel Ragnarsson Olding; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : Malignant melanoma; Vulvar melanoma; mucosal melanoma; epidemiology; amelanotic melanoma; pre-existing nevus; N-Ras mutation; TP53 mutation;

    Abstract : From a consecutive, nationwide series of 219 females with primary vulvar malignant melanomas diagnosed in Sweden during 1960 to 1984 and followed up until 1994, we analyzed epidemiological, clinical, histopathological, prognostic and molecular genetic data. The age-standardized incidence among these patients, 75 % of whom were 60 years old or more, decreased by 3. READ MORE