Effects of temperature stimuli on plasma glucagon levels were studied in fasted (18 hr) and shorn rats. Plasma glucagon levels rose significantly on exposures to both cold (-5 degrees C, 60 min) (p less than 0.001) and heat (36 degrees C, 60 min) (p less than 0.001) from that in control rats at 25 degrees C. Cold stimulus increased blood FFA level (p less than 0.001) and both cold and heat stim...

Cold Atmospheric Plasma is an ionized gas that has recently been extensively studied by researchers as a possible therapy in dentistry and oncology. Several different gases can be used to produce Cold Atmospheric Plasma such as Helium, Argon, Nitrogen, Heliox, and air. There are many methods of production by which cold atmospheric plasma is created. Each unique method can be used in different b...

Background: There are varieties of purification techniques for separation of human plasma proteins such as salting out, ion exchange chromatography, and ethanol fractionation. There are limitations for each method, for example in salting out method, the salt has to be removed in an additional step. Ion exchange chromatography is difficult for scaling up, and plasma fractionation is a time consu...

Prolonged cold storage of plasma may induce the conversion of plasma prorenin (inactive renin) to renin. This phenomenon is exaggerated in oral contraceptive (OC) users; the titer of Hageman factor (HF, Factor XII) in OC users is higher than in nonusers. The present study relates these observations. The increment in plasma renin activity (PRA) during cold storage, as measured by generation of a...

Background: Infection control is a major issue in medicine and dentistry because of concern over communicable diseases transmitted health care settings. The present study was conducted for comparatively evaluating various Cold Sterilization Techniques on Carbide Burs Diamond Points. Materials & methods: Two disinfectant solutions were used: 2% glutaraldehyde 5.2% sodium hypochlorite. group ...

Our objective was to determine whether low-temperature hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) gas plasma sterilization of porous three-dimensional poly(ϵ-caprolactone) (PCL) constructs significantly inhibits cellular metabolism of canine chondrocytes. Porous cylindrical constructs were fabricated using fused deposition modeling and divided into four sterilization groups. Two groups were sterilized with low-t...

Determining the cold-spot in packaged foods is a critical step to ensure commercial sterility of the processed products in developing novel thermal processes. In dielectric heating (i.e. heating with microwave and radio frequency energy), the cold-spot is different from that of conventional heating. Chemical marker methods can be used to map heating patterns within foods systems. This study det...

Atmospheric pressure cold plasmas are widely used in the biomedical field as evidenced by developments recent years. In this study, a quartz tube-guided gas–liquid two-phase discharge has been configured with hollow needle-water structure. The power source for device was sinusoidal, and switching between miscible pure gaseous simple. It discovered that beneficial terms of reactant species gener...