As the oceans become less alkaline due to rising CO2 levels, deleterious consequences are expected for calcifying corals. Predicting how coral calcification will be affected by on-going ocean acidification (OA) requires an accurate assessment of CaCO3 deposition and an understanding of the relative importance that decreasing calcification and/or increasing dissolution play for the overall calci...

Erythrocyte acts as a scavenger. When reactive O2 species are produced beyond its antioxidant capacity, it loses its structural integrity resulting in aggregation. Thus, aggregation has been a useful marker to detect inflammatory state. This is assessed by slide test in this study, which was currently available indirectly through ESR. To test for erythrocyte aggregation by a slide test in myoca...

OBJECTIVE To identify the functional status and quality of life of HAM/TSP patients. METHOD We evaluated prospectively 30 HAM/TSP patients (20 females) seen in the Neuroinfection Clinic of the HUGG. The functional capacity was analyzed by the functional independence measure (FIM), the expanded disability status (EDSS) scale and the Osame's motor disability score (OMDS). The quality of life wa...

Introduction: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a late progressive sclerodermarelated complication, which can lead to right heart failure and cor pulmonale. Given that cardiac catheterization is a diagnostic method of choice for PAH, and considering the high risks of this method, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between serum Pro‐Brain natriuretic peptide (Pro‐B...

in many structures, the applied lateral loads are comparable with gravity loads. these types of piles which are subject to high lateral load are usually divided into two categories including long and short piles. the general methods to estimate lateral bearing capacity of short and long piles are based on ultimate bearing capacity and allowable horizontal displacement respectively. in the prese...

The impact of music and its psychological and physiological changes during exercise is issue that has always been focused on sport science experts. The aim of this study was to compare the effects of musical exercise on aerobic capacity and quality of life in elderly men. This study was conducted on 45 elderly men. The participants were randomly allocated into three groups: aerobic musical exer...

Since fish are poikilothermic, changes in temperature may perturb hormonal activation of cell function. To test this hypothesis, and determine the extent to which hormonal responses are thermally compensated, the effect of temperature on epinephrinestimulated glucose release in perfused trout liver was studied. Thermally acclimated (5 and 20 ̊C) rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) were responsiv...

Active ingredients in different lengths of black soybean sprouts were extracted with water. Concentrations of the main proteins and polysaccharides were determined by the Forint phenol assay and phenol-sulfuric acid assay, respectively. Anti-oxidizing capacities of the extracts were measured in vitro using the DPPH scavenging test and whitening capacity was measured in vitro using the tyrosinas...