The ability of rabbit trachealis to undergo plastic adaptation to chronic shortening or lengthening was assessed by setting the muscle preparations at three lengths for 24 h in relaxed state: a reference length in which applied force was approximately 1-2% of maximal active force (P(o)) and lengths considerably shorter and longer than the reference. Passive and active length-tension (L-T) curve...

Population structure and growth of Mossul bleak, Alburnus mossulensis, a native species of cyprinids in Bibi-Sayyedan River of Semirom, Isfahan, were investigated by monthly sampling during December 2010 to December 2011. For this purpose, 543 speciments (353 females, 159 males and 31 immature) were caught using seine net (5 mm mesh size) and a cast net. Age groups of males and females were 0+ ...

background and objectives: visit length is a crucial aspect of patient-physician relationship that its inadequacy can negatively influence the treatment efficiency. studies on visit length and the factors influencing it are limited in developing countries. thus, the objective of this study was to survey this variable at provincial level, and provide data on factors affecting it.   methods: a sa...

this study describes length-weight relationships of five species (platycephalus indicus, pseudorhombus elevates, plicofollis tenuispinis, grammoplites suppositus, pomadays stridens) collected from persian gulf (khuzestan province, iran) during december 2009 to november 2011. a total of 2065 specimen were examined for this study. the relationship between weight and total length were estimated: w...

fifty-four specimens of the kingsoldier bream, argyrops spinifer (forsskal, 1775) from coastal waters of the persian gulf, in bushehr province, were aged by otolith readings to assess the suitability of using otolith length/weight for age estimation in this fish. otolith length and weight increased along with an increase in length and age of the fish. the relationship between fish length (tl) a...

The present study describes the length-weight relationship (LWR), length-length relationship (LLR) and condition factor of the wild population of the shrimp Macrobrachium macrobrachion from the rivers of Côte d’Ivoire (West Africa). Samples were randomly collected from small-scale shrimp fisheries using bamboo traps. Of the thirteen analyzed morphometrics characters, only the second pleura widt...