Objective: The objective of the present study was to evaluate the possible analgesic and anti-inflammatory activity of the root of Cucumis callosus (Rottl.) Cogn. (Cucurbitaceae) using different animal models. Materials and Methods: The methanol extract of the identified root part of plant Cucumis callosus was used for the evaluation of antinociceptve effect using three animal models namely; ac...

CONTEXT The use of fecal markers to monitor Crohn's disease is crucial for assessing the response to treatment. OBJECTIVE To assess the inflammatory activity of Crohn's disease by comparing fecal markers (calprotectin and lactoferrin), colonoscopy combined with biopsy, and the Crohn's disease activity index (CDAI), as well as serum markers, before treatment with infliximab, after the end of i...

PURPOSE This study was designed to investigate serum and macular response to, and safety of supplementation with, meso-zeaxanthin (MZ), lutein (L), and zeaxanthin (Z), the carotenoids that constitute macular pigment (MP). METHODS Forty-four healthy subjects were recruited into this randomized, placebo-controlled, clinical trial. Subjects consumed one tablet per day containing 10.6 mg MZ, 5.9 ...

In 1998, Boneh, Durfee and Frankel [4] presented several attacks on RSA when an adversary knows a fraction of the secret key bits. The motivation for these so-called partial key exposure attacks mainly arises from the study of side-channel attacks on RSA. With side channel attacks an adversary gets either most significant or least significant bits of the secret key. The polynomial time algorith...

The present investigation was conducted to study the contributive role of clinical and subclinical hypothyroidism in causing dyslipidemia. A total of 220 clinical hypothyroidism patients, 146 subclinical hypothyroids and 200 euthyroid controls, with a mean age of 39 years (range25 – 55 years) were included. The thyropropin, triiodothyronine and thyroxine levels of the patients were assayed by e...

OBJECTIVE To investigated the clinicopathologic features of familial papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) compared to sporadic PTC. METHODS Between January 2008 and August 2014, 20 patients who underwent surgery at Liaoning Cancer Hospital and Institute were diagnosed with familial PTC. We compared the clinicopathologic characteristics between familial PTC and sporadic PTC. RESULTS The prevale...