BACKGROUND In this study, we describe our experience regarding the implementation of early enhanced recovery after lung surgery. We achieved ambulation within 1 hour extubation mainly by minimally invasive surgery combined with fast-track thoracic anesthesia. METHODS retrospectively analyzed clinical outcomes in 211 patients who underwent resection using miniport video-assisted (VATS) a multidi...

The foliage of fifteen day-old Vigna radiata seedlings was sprayed with water (control) or with a 10–10 M, 10–8 M or 10–6 M aqueous solution of 28-homobrassinolide (HBR). Samples of the treated plant material, collected at 30/50 days after sowing (DAS), were assessed for the activities of carbonic anhydrase (CA) and nitrate reductase (NR); leaf chlorophyll content (Chl); stomatal conductance (g...

The effect of transplacental exposure to W-ethyl-N-nitrosourea (ENU) on body, brain, and cerebellar development was studied in rats. Female Sprague-Dawley albino rats received i.p. injections (15, 60,100, or 150 mg/kg) of ENU on the 18th day of gestation. Mothers receiving 60 mg/kg or greater had a decreased litter size and offspring with a high incidence of mortality. ENU treatment had a pro n...

SIGNIFICANCE The α2-adrenergic receptor agonist brimonidine has been reported to induce conjunctival blanching in cataract, strabismus, laser refractive, and filtration procedures. Clinicians are often faced with red eyes with no apparent underlying pathology. Low-dose brimonidine reduced ocular redness in such subjects with efficacy maintained over 1 month and negligible rebound redness. PUR...

the cotton-melon aphid, aphis gossypii glover (hom.: aphidiae), is an injuriously important pest of tomatoes in farms and greenhouses. in the greenhouse environment its damage ranks second to whiteflies (trialeurodes vaporariorum westw.). in this research the resistance of nine different tomato cultivars namely: strian, caligen, super bita, super strian, super af1, has2274, gs-12-f1, sun-6200 f...

A process-based ecosystemmodel (Vegetationeatmosphere Interface Processes (VIP) model) is expanded, and then validated against three years’ biometric, soil moisture and eddy-covariance fluxes data over awinter wheatesummer maize cropping system in the North China Plain (NCP). The results show that the model is capable of simulating satisfactorily the evolution of crop biomass, phenological deve...

Ca2+ was measured in sera and plasma from 36 normal subjects (18 men 23-57 years old, and 18 women 20-52 years old) with the Space-Stat 20 Ionized Calcium Analyzer. Within-day and between-day precision (CV) for commercial serum-based specimens varied from 0.64-0.96% and 1.1-3.8%, respectively, depending on their mean concentrations. Plasma and serum showed within-day CV's of 1.05 and 0.79%, res...