(1) Light microscopy of both apneics and snorers revealed mucous gland hypertrophy with ductal dilation and focal squamous metaplasia, disruption of muscle bundles by infiltrating mucous glands, focal atrophy of muscle fibers, and extensive edema of the lamina propria with vascular dilation.
(2) Eight men who were regular heavy snorers were monitored while awake and during nocturnal sleep.
(3) To determine its predictive value, polysomnography was performed on 14 snorers with sleep apnea syndrome (SAS) before and 3 months after uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP).
(4) My study indicates that snoring may be a risk factor for ischemic stroke, possibly because of the higher prevalence of an obstructive sleep apnea syndrome among snorers than nonsnorers.
(5) On the basis of these results, it would appear that isradipine is more suitable than metoprolol for the treatment of hypertension in patients who are habitual snorers.
(6) From December 1988 to July 1990, 31 snorers have been treated by LVPP and have been cured or, at least, improved in their snoring.
(7) We have visually shown an increase in pharyngeal size with the use of nasal CPAP in a cohort of heavy snorers.
(8) Cephalometry is often used to assess patients with sleep apnoea but whether these measurements differ from those in non-apnoeic snorers and how they are influenced by age is not clear.
(9) The prevalence of heart disease and other conditions, except for diabetes and asthma, also increased in snorers in this age group.
(10) Forty-five habitual snorers (mean respiratory disturbance index = 6) and 22 patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (mean respiratory disturbance index = 36) were examined by polysomnography, radiocephalometry, rhinomanometry, nasopharyngeal videoendoscopy, and acoustic rhinometry.
(11) Patients with OSA have been heavy snorers for years and even decades.
(12) This study shows that non-apnoeic snorers have cephalometric abnormalities that differ from those of patients with sleep apnoea and that cephalometric values are influenced by the subject's age.
(13) CPAP was proposed to all OSA patients but only to those snorers who felt improved after an initial laboratory night on CPAP.
(14) Together these account for at least a sixfold variation in the likelihood of being an "often" snorer.
(15) In 116 of them, an apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) above 10--defined as the presence of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)--was found; the other 75 subjects had an AHI lower than 10 and were classified as habitual snorers (HSN).
(16) 118 Children were habitual snorers and 137 were reported to snore apart from when they had colds.
(17) For hypertension both men and women who snored between the fifth and 10th decades had a twofold increase over non-snorers.
(18) In selected snorers, uvulopalatopharyngoplasty results in improvement in snoring with a concomitant increase in pharyngeal area and a tendency toward lower pharyngeal collapsibility.
(19) There were no cases of stroke among the non-snorers.
(20) Personal results in a population of obese heavy snorers are summarized.
Storer
Definition:
(n.) One who lays up or forms a store.
Example Sentences:
(1) The kinetic parameters of individual enzymes were determined and used in model calculations based on a published theory (Storer, A. C., and Cornish-Bowden, A.
(2) The results of these, together with those of kinetic studies of the uninhibited reaction described previously [Storer & Cornish-Bowden (1976) Biochem.
(3) Thus, the resonance Raman (RR) spectrum of, e.g., N-benzoylalanine dithioacyl papain and its response to isotopic labeling cannot be understood completely on the basis of the RR spectrum of N-benzoylalanine ethyl dithio ester in one of its known conformational states [detailed in Lee, H., Angus, R. H., Storer, A. C., Varughese, K. I., & Carey, P. R. (1988) Biochemistry (preceding paper in this issue)].
(4) Levels of DA in the brain of nectar and pollen forager bees, presumed to be among the oldest adults sampled, were found to be significantly higher than in nurses, undertakers or food storers.
(5) Using the Breslow and Storer family it was possible to rule out the additive model as an adequate one to describe the relative risk.
(6) Among the passerine birds, species that store food have an enlarged hippocampal region (dorso-medial cortex), relative to brain and body size, when compared with the non-storers.
(7) The analysis was carried out using the Breslow and Storer family of relative risk functions to assess which scale, between the subadditive and the supermultiplicative, could better explain the risk structure underlying the data.
(8) Kohler, G. Weil-Hillman, N. Rosenthal, K. H. Moore, B. Storer, D. Minkoff, J. Bradshaw, R. Bechhofer, and P. M. Sondel.
(9) This 39-kDa secreted propapain zymogen molecule is glycosylated and can be processed in vitro into an enzymatically active authentic papain molecule of 24.5 kDa (Vernet, T., Tessier, D.C., Richardson, C., Laliberté, F., Khouri, H. E., Bell, A. W., Storer, A. C., and Thomas, D. Y.
(10) It was here in 2001 that Tony Blair was confronted by Sharron Storer, who took him to task for the standard of cancer care her partner was receiving.
(11) During his tour of the seat, Cameron visited the Queen Elizabeth Hospital where,during the 2001 election, Tony Blair was harangued by Sharon Storer over the cancer treatment for her partner.
(12) "I have to object to you referring to Ibrahimovic as Galoot," blasts Ted Storer.
(13) From calculations of a model reaction scheme for base-catalyzed RNA hydrolysis, a pentacoodinate dianionic intermediate 2a (Storer, et al., J.
(14) Although the sensor doesn't have a battery or other energy storer, for example, a capacitor, the resonance frequency can be measured without contact.
(15) Simulation studies based on the "mnemonical" model of glucokinase action proposed earlier [A. C. Storer and A. Cornish-Bowden (1977) Biochem.
(16) The k3 values for the hydrolysis of a series of para-substituted N-benzoylglycine esters were found to correlate with the k3 values for the corresponding para-substituted thiono esters [Carey, P. R., Lee, H., Ozaki, Y., & Storer, A. C. (1984) J.
(17) (Methyloxycarbonyl)-L-phenylalanyl-L-alanine ethyl dithio ester crystallizes in an A-like conformational state wherein the alanine N atom is nearly cis to the thiono S atom (C=S) [Varughese, K.I., Angus, R.H., Carey, P.R., Lee, H., & Storer, A.C. (1986) Can.
(18) In contrast, the results calculated by use of the Storer and Cornish-Bowden equation for a system of unlinked enzymes predicted the overall reaction to exhibit a lag time of 30 s and to result in the accumulation of 2.1 microM 3-hydroxydecanoyl-CoA before reaching a velocity corresponding to 82.5% of that of the hydratase reaction.
(19) The purification is described of rat hepatic hexokinase type III and kidney hexokinase type I on a large scale by using a combination of conventional and affinity techniques similar to those previously used for the purification of rat hepatic glucokinase [Holroyde, Allen, Storer, Warsy, Chesher, Trayer, Cornish-Bowden & Walker (1976) Biochem.
(20) Thus the mnemonical mechanism proposed originally [Storer & Cornish-Bowden (1977) Biochem.