Motor Vehicle Accident Fatalities for the Week Ending, August 11, 2006

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Motor Vehicle Accident Fatalities for the Week Ending, August 25, 2006

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Motor Vehicle Accident Fatalities for the Week Ending, August 18, 2006

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Motor Vehicle Accident Fatalities for the Week Ending, September 1, 2006

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Motor Vehicle Accident Fatalities for the Week Ending, September 8, 2006

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Motor Vehicle Accident Fatalities for the Week Ending, September 15, 2006

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Motor Vehicle Accident Fatalities for the Week Ending, September 29, 2006

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Motor Vehicle Accident Fatalities for the Week Ending, September 22, 2006

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Motor Vehicle Accident Fatalities for the Week Ending, September 29, 2006

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Motor Vehicle Accident Fatalities for the Week Ending, October 6, 2006

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Intraclass reliability of the Alberta Infant Motor Scale in the Brazilian version

This study had as its objective to analyze the intraclass reliability of the Alberta Infant Motor Scale (AIMS), in the Brazilian version, in preterm and term infants. It was a methodological study, conducted from November 2009 to April 2010, with 50 children receiving care in two public institutions in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. Children were grouped according to gestational age as preterm and term, and evaluated by three evaluators in the communication laboratory of a public institution or at home. The intraclass correlation indices for the categories prone, supine, sitting and standing ranged from 0.553 to 0.952; most remained above 0.800, except for the standing category of the third evaluator, in which the index was 0.553. As for the total score and percentile, rates ranged from 0.843 to 0.954. The scale proved to be a reliable instrument for assessing gross motor performance of Brazilian children, particularly in Ceará, regardless of gestational age at birth.

Motor Vehicle Accident Fatalities for the Week Ending, October 20, 2006

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Motor Vehicle Accident Fatalities for the Week Ending, October 13, 2006

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Enhanced visuospatial memory following intracerebroventricular administration of nerve growth factor

The present work assessed the effects of intracerebroventricular injections of rh recombined human nerve growth factor (rh NGF) (5 micrograms/2.5 microl) at postnatal days 12 and 13 upon the development of spatial learning capacities. The treated rats were trained at the age of 22 days to escape onto an invisible platform at a fixed position in space in a Morris navigation task. For half of the subjects, the training position was also cued, a procedure aimed at facilitating escape and at reducing attention to the distant spatial cues. Later, at the age of 6 months, all the rats were trained in a radial-arm maze task. Treatment effects were found in both immature and adult rats. The injection of NGF improved the performance in the Morris navigation task in both training conditions. There was a significant reduction in the escape latency and an increased bias toward the training platform quadrant during probe trials. The most consistent effect was the precocious development of an adult-like spatial memory. In the radial-arm maze, the NGF-treated rats made significantly fewer reentries than vehicle rats and this effect was particularly marked in the treated female rats. Taken together, these experiments reveal that the development and the maintenance of an accurate spatial representation are tightly related to the development of brain structures facilitated by the action of NGF. Moreover, these experiments demonstrate that an acute pharmacological treatment that leads to a transient modification in the choline acetyltransferase activity can induce a behavioral change long after the treatment.

Motor Vehicle Accident Fatalities for the Week Ending, November 3, 2006

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