the pharmacokinetics of recombinant human erythropoietin (rhuepo) administered intravenously has been investigated in a group of five patients with chronic renal failure who were dialysis-dependent. the half-life of circulating erythropoietin decreased from 7.9±oa hr (mean ±so) at the beginning of treatment to 6.2±o.6 hr after 6 weeks and 5a±o.9 hr after 4 months of treatment. in spite of the s...

an experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of thyroid gland activity modulation (hyper or hypothyroidism) on energy utilization in broiler chickens. two hundred and forty one-day-old cobb broiler chicks were distributed into three dietary metabolizable energy (me) treatment groups (80 chicks each). the control group (e0) was fed basal diet (3150 kcal/kg diet), the second group (e1) w...

this experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of different levels of dried aerial parts powder and extract of tanacetum balasmita (tb) medicinal plant on performance, carcass traits and blood parameters of broilers. two hundred eighty ross-308 broilers from 10 to 42 days of age were used in a completely randomized design in 5 treatments and 4 replicates (14 birds per replicate). the tre...

the imbalance between pro-oxidants and anti-oxidants leads to generation of oxygen/nitrogen free radicals which are implicated in several neurodegenerative diseases. fagonia arabica is an ethno-pharmacologically important ayurvedic herb known to have many medicinal properties like anti-inflammatory, analgesic and antipyretic effects. however, its antioxidant potential has not been investigated ...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an age-related devastating neurodegenerative disorder, which severely impacts on the global economic development and healthcare system. Though AD has been studied for more than 100 years since 1906, the exact cause(s) and pathogenic mechanism(s) remain to be clarified. Also, the efficient disease-modifying treatment and ideal diagnostic method for AD are unavailable....

BACKGROUND Improved sanitation has been shown to have great impacts on people's health and economy. However, the progress of achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on halving the proportion of people without access to clean water and basic sanitation by 2015 has thus far been delayed. One of the reasons for the slow progress is that policy makers, as well as the general public, have ...

This article presents the results of an ongoing research project on production and allocation biomass agricultural origin (BAO), a key resource in ecological energy transitions. The BAO are changing under current development bioeconomy, which is narrative promoted for intensifying use BAO, that we question through lens scientific paradigm bioeconomics. We developed metabolic approach to agricul...

Cities are complex systems with a key role in economic development and improving the environmental sustainability of nations. Therefore, comprehensive understanding urban is fundamental to designing relevant policies initiatives. Urban metabolism characterization may provide holistic framework for analyzing context broader national metabolism. This paper provides methodology characterize an are...