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We now get to those features which separate out PowerPoint from other presentation media discount isordil 10mg with visa. These can be used to retain the attention of an audience, but the main danger is that they can also be used to entertain the audience to the extent that they are watching for the next slide transition, or spectacular form of building text, rather than concentrating on the wisdom contained within the slides. Slide transition Slides can glide down from above, each side, or below; they can split out, in, and down plus very many other types of transition. It is important to restrict the use of these transitions to avoid providing too much entertainment with the medium rather than education with the content. Building text A similar danger lies in the excessive use of different types of text build. Lines of text can be constructed by wiping to the right or left or by dropping in single letters of each word. Text can be flown in from the side, top, or bottom of the slide; spiral effects spin the text out from the centre. It is important not to overdo the special effects Save the special effects for the occasions when you want to make an especially important series of points rather than using them indiscriminately throughout your presentation. Graphics It is possible to use the graphics functions in PowerPoint to produce simple illustrations such as block and line drawings (Figure 5. Digital photographs One of the most useful features of PowerPoint is the ability to insert different components into your presentation. Digital photographs or scanned 35 mm slides can now be projected using XGA resolution and provide excellent quality. Your old 35 mm 40 COMPUTER-GENERATED SLIDES slide collection of apparatus, patients or pathology can therefore be scanned and stored permanently on a CD-ROM. An image of this type can be inserted on to a slide and then annotated to point out specific points in the illustration (Figure 5. Where you do not have scanned images and must use 35 mm slides, the best technique is to stop with a completely black slide in your PowerPoint presentation where you wish to show your 35 mm slides.

Presenting pains may be: • Subchondral bone lesions with loss of integrity of the subchondral plate order 10 mg isordil with visa, gout and pseudogout may • Severe abdominal pain: This is the most frequent all contribute to joint pain. However, only a small presenting symptom, usually being central, col- proportion of patients ( 2%) present with radio- icky and intermittent in nature. Changes in bowel habit, nausea and vomit- Nutritional deficiency ing may further confuse the picture. The excess porphyrin excretion in the urine colours the urine Causes may be: a ‘port wine’ colour. Vitamin B1 (thiamine) The treatment of the pain of acute intermittent por- Common symptoms and signs include: phyria may be difficult. It is first important to make the diagnosis and second not make matters worse by • Painful paraesthesia in the feet. Peripheral neur- opathy affects the most distal parts first and spreads proximally, as a sensory neuropathy. Treatment obviously involves Vitamin B absorption requires binding to intrinsic removing the arsenic, but prognosis can be poor with 12 factor (which may be lacking). Indeed deficiency may present with symmetrical lower limb neuropathy with associated: Mercury poisoning Paraesthesia. Once the neuropathy is estab- lished management of the pain involves utilising the Correcting the deficiency (in all but the most severe standard tools available to the pain specialist. Rare vascular-associated pains Poisoning Pain associated with inadequate blood supply to tis- Poisoning by a variety of heavy metals is associated sues may be due to: with a painful peripheral neuropathy. In the past • Tissue death and subsequent ulceration, including the use of lead pipes and lead in paint were the main damage to nerve endings. Pain related to the resultant motor dysfunction and the pain of asso- Re-vascularisation alone will only acutely resolve the ciated renal and haemopoitic pathologies may also be pain caused by ischaemia of the nerve endings. Diagnosis may be made clinically by detecting is then needed for the other processes to settle down a black ‘lead line’ on the gingival margins, basophilic and the patient may be left with long-term neuro- stippling of erythrocytes and elevated blood lead pathic pain.

This is one of the explanations given for the phenomenon of macular sparing in which vision at the macula may be preserved even though the surrounding areas of the visual cortex are no longer functional buy isordil 10 mg with amex. As the two layers of the retina grow, they approach each other and the cavity is obliterated as the two layers become contiguous. The two layers give rise to the inner 120 Vision, eye movements, hearing and balance neural layer and the outer pigment layer. The potential space between them can open up in certain conditions, for example poor vascular perfusion. This is not so for other cranial nerves in which myelin is manufactured by Schwann cells. This involves the examiner facing the patient, and both observing an object (usually the examiner’s finger) held equidistant between patient and examiner. The object is at first held out of sight, and as it is brought towards the centre of the visual field from one extrem- ity (right, left, top or bottom), the point at which it is first seen by both patient and examiner is noted. This method is based on com- paring the patient’s visual fields with those of the examiner, and thus assumes that the examiner is normal, at least in respect of his or her visual fields. All crude tests of vision, of course, also depend on a normally func- tioning cornea, aqueous humour, iris, lens, vitreous humour, etc. Chapter 21 THE OCULOMOTOR (III), TROCHLEAR (IV) AND ABDUCENS (VI) NERVES The oculomotor (III), trochlear (IV) and abducens (VI) nerves innervate the extrinsic ocular muscles which move the eyeball. It is artificial to consider these nerves separately since both eyes move simultaneously to fix on a single point: eye movements are thus said to be conjugate. Furthermore, movement of the eyes to one side involves adduction of one eye and abduction of the other, demanding a sophisticated control mechanism (see Chapter 22). Through its parasympathetic components, the oculomotor nerve also causes constriction of the pupil (miosis) and has a role in accommodation of the lens (see Chapter 17). Superior and inferior divisions enter orbit through superior orbital fissure within common tendinous ring. Also contains parasympathetic fibres from Edinger– Westphal nucleus to ciliary ganglion.

Grb2) The kinetics of the pharmacological response depends mediating a response within minutes purchase isordil 10 mg with visa. For example, ion influx is seen G-protein-coupled receptors within milliseconds of an ion channel being activated, whereas effects through a G-protein receptor are Opioid receptors are an example of G-protein- observed after several seconds. These receptors are also termed such as modulation of gene transcription and protein metabotropic. They span the plasma membrane seven synthesis, take hours to show and are generally much times and utilise a G-protein transducer. Desensitization, that is loss of effect of a heterotrimeric complex consisting of three subunits a ligand, can occur within a cell by several possible ( , and ) and can generally be classed as inhibitory mechanisms: loss of receptors, depletion of messen- (Gi/o) or excitatory (Gs/Gq/11). On activation, a confor- gers or cell components, physiological adaptation, or mational change of the receptor protein occurs, leading increased metabolism. The first four described below Ca are the key G-protein-coupled effectors, with the other examples relating to tyrosine kinase receptors H AEA and ion channels. Adenylyl cyclase On activation, adenylyl cyclase (AC) converts adenosine triphosphate (ATP) to cyclic adenosine monophos- phate (cAMP), an important regulatory second mes- senger with many physiological roles. For example, activation of 1- adrenoreceptors in the heart stimulates PKA to increase the release of Ca2 from intracellular stores by opening voltage-gated Ca2 channels, and so regu- ATP lates contraction of the cardiac muscle. Some Trk domain S G-protein-coupled receptors inhibit AC and, there- fore, decrease cAMP production. NH2 Guanylyl cyclase Similar to AC, guanylyl cyclase (GC) converts GTP to cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) in α response to peptides, such as atrial natriuretic pep- β tide. The upper panel This is a membrane-bound enzyme family which con- shows a ligand-gated ion channel (the vanilloid, receptor VR1 is given as an example showing the Ca2 pore, and H and verts phosphatidylinositol bisphosphate (PIP2) to anandamide (AEA-binding sites)). These second messen- gers then activate intracellular Ca2 ion channels and a typical tyrosine kinase receptor (e.