Background: Myocardial infarction (MI) is one of the most important causes of death worldwide. The effect of flunixin meglumine (FM) on MI is unknown. We investigated the protective effect of FM on the serum biochemical profile, malondialdehyde (MDA), and heart histology changes induced by isoproterenol (ISO) in adult male rats. Methods: Rats were randomly divided into four groups of six eac...

In annotating measure expressions such as three days and about 123 km, two recently published ISO standards, ISO-TimeML (ISO, 2012b) and ISOspace (ISO, 2014a), show some inconsistencies, as pointed out in ISO SemAF Principles (ISO, 2014c), a third ISO standards on semantic annotation to be published soon. Other than terminological or semantic inconsistencies introduced in ISO SemAF Principles, ...

Sympathetic nerve activity increases in the heart during cardiac failure. Here, we hypothesized that 1 integrins play a protective role in chronic -adrenergic receptor–stimulated cardiac myocyte apoptosis and heart failure. L-isoproterenol (iso; 400 g/kg per hour) was infused in a group of wild-type (WT) and 1 integrin heterozygous knockout (hKO) mice. Left ventricular structural and functional...

By means of EPR spectroscopy the behaviour of the vanadocene dichloride (I), Cp(2)VCl(2) (Cp=eta(5)-C(5)H(5)), in various deoxygenated and non-deoxygenated physiological media and therapeutic solution as well as in blood plasma and stabilized human blood was studied. On the basis of measured values of isotropic spectroscopic splitting factor g(iso) and isotropic hyperfine coupling constant A(is...

2',3'-iso-Benzoabscisic acid (iso-PhABA), an excellent selective abscisic acid (ABA) analog, was developed in our previous work. In order to find its more structure-activity information, some structural modifications were completed in this paper, including the substitution of phenyl ring and replacing the ring with heterocycles. Thus, 16 novel analogs of iso-PhABA were synthesized and screened ...

Problem statement: The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) published a set of international standards related to the software engineering, such as ISO 12207 and ISO 9126. However, there is a set of cross-references between these two standards. Approach: The ISO 9126 on software product quality and ISO 12207 on software life cycle processes had been analysed to investigate the r...

Structures retaining many of the morphological features of nuclei may be released by gently lysing human cells in solutions containing non-ionic detergents and high concentrations of salt. These nucleoids contain superhelical DNA. Using a double-labelling procedure we have compared, at different salt concentrations, the amounts and types of protein associated with human nucleoides containings s...

The capacitance between a single sensor strip and the backplane Csb=1.5 pF, bias resistor from the strip implant to the bias rail Rb=1.4 M, decoupling capacitance between the implant and Al readout strip Cdec=120 pF. Two sensors connected to a hybrid have an external capacitance between their backplanes and the ground Cbp=50 nF and a series resistor between this capacitance and the voltage sou...

Mechanical testing of an advanced thermoplastic polyimide (LaRC-SI) with known variations in molecular weight was performed over a range of temperatures below the glass transition temperature. The physical characterization, elastic properties and notched tensile strength were all determined as a function of molecular weight and test temperature. It was shown that notched tensile strength is a ...