BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Conventionally, biphasic human insulin (30/70, BHI) is used twice daily for the management of patients with diabetes. However, this regimen is suboptimal to control post-lunch and/or pre-dinner hyperglycaemia in some patients. This study was undertaken to compare the efficacy and safety of thrice-daily biphasic human insulin (30/70, BHI) versus basal detemir and bolus as...

Background: Pasteurella multocida serotypes A and D are commonly associated with pneumonia and pleuritis in pigs. Different phenotypic techniques, such as hyaluronidase and acriflavine tests, and genotyping techniques, such as PCR, are used to distinguish between these serotypes. The objective of this study was to compare the capsular identification methods of type A and type D P. multocida iso...

To evaluate the effect of eucalyptus, sappan, and cinnamon leaf bark extract on percentage S. mutans biofilm formation. The test group was divided into a negative control (1% Dimethyl sulfoxide), treatment (eucalyptus, leaves at concentrations 50%, 25%, 12.5%, respectively), positive (0.2% chlorhexidine). Each concentration barks extract, Brain Heart Infusion Broth (BHI-B), bacteria according t...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of carotid angioplasty and stenting (CAS) on postoperative cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) and its independent predictors. METHODS During July 2008 and September 2009, 37 patients undergone CAS were enrolled in this study. Breath holding tests using transcranial Doppler were performed for each patient before, 1 to 2 days, and 3 to 10 months after the procedur...

Article history: Received on: 27/08/2013 Revised on: 19/09/2013 Accepted on: 02/10/2013 Available online: 31/10/2013 Aim of the study was to investigate the anti-bacterial potential of curcumin, against standard strains of common endodontic bacteria. The bacterial strains of Streptococcus mutans (ATCC 35668), Actinomyces viscosus (ATCC 10048), Lactobacillus casei (ATCC 334), Porphyromonas gingi...

The aim of our study was to assess cerebral vasoreactivity (CVR) in type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) and factors which may influence on it. According to previous studies, evaluating CVR in DM2 on the similar way, the results were dubious. For the evaluation CVR we used breath holding index (BHI) and transcranial Doppler ultrasound (TCD) in 50 patients with DM2 and 50 sex- and age-matched healthy ...

Staphylococcus aureus bacteria are one of the leading microorganisms responsible for nosocomial infections as well as being the primary causative pathogen of skin and wound infections. Currently, the therapy of staphylococcal diseases faces many difficulties, due to a variety of mechanisms of resistance and virulence factors. Moreover, a number of infections caused by S. aureus are connected wi...

In an experimental study, five field isolates of Pasteurella multocida recently isolated from natural sporadic cases from cattle were tested for their pathogenicity in mice. 0.2 ml of eighteen hours old broth cultures of each of the test isolates containing approximately 2.4×108 CFU/ml was inoculated into four mice (2 male and 2 female) by intra peritoneal route and two mice (1 male and 1 femal...

OBJECTIVE To explore the fluorescence characteristics of common cariogenic bacteria: Streptococcus mutans, S. sanguis, Actinomyces viscosus, Prevotella intermedia, Lactobacillus acidophilus, and Candida albicans. METHODS The bacteria were cultured on brain heart infusion (BHI) agar and BHI blood agar, and bacterial colonies were collected for further amplification in liquid medium. Bacterial ...