AIM To test the safety and effectiveness of hypertonic saline solution (HSS + F) as a strategy for weight loss and prevention of further deterioration of renal function. METHODS Patients admitted with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) who received HSS + F were included in the study. After a period of a standard ADHF treatment, our patients received an intravenous infusion of furosemide...

Folate-conjugated, curcumin-loaded human serum albumin nanoparticles (F-CM-HSANPs) were obtained by the chemical conjugation of folate to the surface of the curcumin (CM)-loaded human serum albumin nanoparticles (NPs). The NPs were characterized by various parameters, including size, polydispersity, zeta potential, morphology, encapsulation efficiency, and drug release profile. The mean particl...

Activins, ®rst isolated in 1986 from porcine follicular ̄uid (1, 2), are gonadal proteins which stimulate pituitary follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) synthesis and secretion. However, from 1986 to the present day, several lines of research have found that activins are not only synthesized in the ovaries and testes, but also in other tissues where they function as paracrine and autocrine factors...

Aynsley-Green, A., Baum, J. D., Alberti, K. G. M. M., and Woods, H. F. (1974). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 49, 647. Hyperlactataemia during intravenous feeding in childhood. A recently introduced synthetic amino acid preparation, Aminoplex 5, appeared suitable for use in intravenous feeding in childhood because it has a low sodium concentration and high caloric value, achieved by using so...

Using two models that incorporate a nonlinear forward-backward heat equation, we demonstrate the existence of well-deened weak solutions containing shocks for diiusive problems. Occurrence of shocks is connected to multivalued inverse solutions and non-monotone potential functions. Unique viscous solutions are determined from perturbation theory by matching to a shock layer condition. Results o...

Several government/commercial oo-the-shelf modular software packages have been combined to perform static aeroelastic analysis and aerodynamic optimization of a generic high-speed civil transport, with the eventual goal of performing high-delity multidisciplinary optimization (MDO). Results obtained for the aeroelastic analysis and aerodynamic optimization cases are consistent with expectations...

We describe a parallel implementation for large-eddy simulation and direct simulation of turbulent uids based on the three dimensional incompressible Navier Stokes equations. The paralleliza-tion strategy is speciied by domain decomposition and a divide and conquer method for solving the poisson equation. The program is benchmarked on a set of supercomputers under the message passing platform M...

The reheating process in in ationary universe models is considered as an out-of-equilibrium mixture of two interacting and reacting uids, and studied within the framework of causal, irreversible thermodynamics. The evolution of the temperature and the decay rate as determined by causal thermodynamics are estimated at di erent stages of the process. A simple model is also used to nd the perturba...

drug and intravenous thrapy basic clinical skills in nursing students at the end of third year     haji hossaini f [1] *, sharifnia sh [2] , nazari r [3] , rezaei r [4] ,saatsaz s [5]     received: 9 sep, 2011 accepted: 20 oct, 2011     abstract:   background & aims : learning drugs and intravenous therapy are necessary for nursing students. this study was done with the aim of assessing the dru...

introduction: acute idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (itp) is an autoimmune bleeding disorder of childhood caused by production of auto antibodies against platelets. the aim of the present study was to compare the efficacy of intravenous immunoglobulin (ivig) and intravenous anti-d(iv anti-d) in itp treatment. methods and materials: in a clinical trial, 43 children with acute itp referred to...