Aloe vera plant (A. vulgari and A. barbadensis) has being used traditionally as a medicinal plant for centuries. Gel from the inner central zone of the leaves and latex from pericyclic cells are used for medicinal purposes. The present study was conducted to elucidate the beneficial effects of Aloe vera juice on the platelet aggregation in cerebral microvessels of mice. Male mice were injected ...

The European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), is oftencontrolledwithgeneticallymodiÞedcorn,ZeamaysL., hybrids (Bacillus thuringiensis[Bt] corn) in the United States. If Bt-resistant insects are detected in the Þeld, mitigationÐremediation tactics must be implemented to sustain the efÞcacyof insecticidal, transgenic corn.Mass releasing laboratoryreared, susceptib...

OBJECTIVES This study sought to assess the influence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and the impact of hypoglycemic treatment (insulin vs. noninsulin) on platelet function profiles in patients treated with dual oral antiplatelet therapy. BACKGROUND Insulin inhibits platelet aggregation by suppressing the P2Y12 pathway. However, T2DM patients have a loss of responsiveness to insulin that le...

We introduce an e-business analytical framework that focuses on transaction flows, including information, physical goods, and services. Within this framework, global e-business involves transaction flows that cross both organizational and national boundaries. Many challenging technology and policy issues arise from this trans-boundary characteristic of global e-business. These issues are analyz...

The August 2003 Blackout event showed that the PowerGrid is vulnerable to the cyber attacks. The event also showed the need for automatic detection of abnormal behaviors in the PowerGrid. In this paper, we propose a solution for the problem of detecting anomaly behaviors such as reporting incorrect status of the devices of the PowerGrid. First, we apply the non-parametric Cumulative Sum algorit...

Using data aggregation to reduce power consumption is a well studied area. In this paper we show a new result: data aggregation can also be used to increase reliability. In scenarios where status is being collected from every node (e.g. network management), one measure of reliability is the completeness (nodes included). Using some of the power savings from aggregation to increase the retransmi...

Formation of a cell-free layer is an important dynamic feature of microcirculatory blood flow, which can be influenced by rheological parameters, such as red blood cell aggregation and flow rate. In this study, we investigate the effect of these two rheological parameters on cell-free layer characteristics in the arterioles (20-60 mum inner diameter). For the first time, we provide here the det...

background and objective: nitric oxide (no) plays a role in thermoregulation and growth of protozoa. this work aimed to add the molecule no in physiology of protozoa in contact with abused narcotic substances. materials and methods: a sedative drug, morphine, was infused into a cell chamber containing paramecia . the cell response to the drug was recorded promptly after drug infusion using a po...

energy consumption is considered as a critical issue in wireless sensor networks (wsns). batteries of sensor nodes have limited power supply which in turn limits services and applications that can be supported by them. an efcient solution to improve energy consumption and even trafc in wsns is data aggregation (da) that can reduce the number of transmissions. two main challenges for da are: (i)...