This study has been performed with the goal of investigating the effectiveness of psychodrama on the reduction of social anxiety among the male adolescents in Kermanshah. This is a quasi-experimental research study (pre-post and follow-up testing plan with control group). 210 adolescents (13-14 year-olds) from four junior high schools in Kermanshah filled Liebowitz social anxiety scale for chil...

Objective. We investigated the effects of WXKL on the action potential (AP) and the L-type calcium current (I Ca-L) in normal and hypertrophied myocytes. Methods. Forty male rats were randomly divided into two groups: the control group and the transverse aortic constriction- (TAC-) induced heart failure group. Cardiac hypertrophy was induced by TAC surgery, whereas the control group underwent a...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE While it is well known that longer duration of cardiac arrest (CA) is often associated with poorer long-term outcome, the influence of resuscitation efficacy on postischemia recovery is less clear. The objective of the present study is to investigate whether an inadequate and prolonged resuscitation after a shorter CA can lead to worse long-term outcomes than an effective...

Many studies suggest myocardial ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury results largely from cytosolic proton (H(i))-stimulated increases in cytosolic Na (Na(i)), which cause Na/Ca exchange-mediated increases in cytosolic Ca concentration ([Ca]i). Because cold, crystalloid cardioplegia (CCC) limits [H]i, we tested the hypothesis that in newborn hearts, CCC diminishes H(i), Na(i), and Ca(i) accumulati...

Recoverin, a recently discovered member of the EF-hand protein superfamily, serves as a Ca2+ sensor in vision. A myristoyl or related N-acyl group covalently attached to the amino terminus of recoverin enables it to translocate to retinal disc membranes when the Ca2+ level is elevated. Two-dimensional 1H-13C shift correlation NMR spectra of recoverin containing a 13C-labeled myristoyl group wer...

this study has been performed with the goal of investigating the effectiveness of psychodrama on the reduction of social anxiety among the male adolescents in kermanshah. this is a quasi-experimental research study (pre-post and follow-up testing plan with control group). 210 adolescents (13-14 year-olds) from four junior high schools in kermanshah filled liebowitz social anxiety scale for chil...

background: due to difficulty of obtaining a 24h urine (especially in children), a random urine calcium sample is recommended to detect of hypercalciuria. however, recent studies have shown that the urinary calcium/creatinine ratio varies with age and geographic areas. so, the aim of this study was determining the normal value of urinary calcium to creatinine ratio in healthy adolescent’s child...

BACKGROUND Community assault (CA) or vigilantism is widespread in the township of Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa (SA). Anecdotal evidence suggests that victims of CA are worse off than other assault cases. However, scientific data on the rate and severity of CA cases are lacking for SA. OBJECTIVES To contribute to CA prevention and management strategies by estimating the rate of CA amon...

1School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA; 2Center for Clinical Epidemiology, St Luke’s Life Science Institute, Tokyo, Japan; 3Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; 4Genetic Epidemiology and Genomics Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA; 5Laboratory for Molecular and Neuroepidemiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA; 6Cancer Immunog...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of α-ketoglutarate on redox state parameters and arterial elasticity in elderly mice. Mice in the control group were fed with standard diet, while the experimental animals received the diet supplemented either with calcium (Ca-AKG) or sodium salt of α-ketoglutarate (Na-AKG). The experimental animals were divided into 4 groups with 10 indivi...