PURPOSE To observe the hemodynamic changes of parturients in the combined use of hyperbaric (4 mg) and hypobaric (6 mg) ropivacaine during spinal anesthesia for caesarean section in this randomized double-blind study. METHODS Parturients (n = 136) undergoing elective cesarean delivery were randomly and equally allocated to receive either combined hyperbaric and hypobaric ropivacaine (Group A)...

Adathoda vasica is a medicinal plant beneficial for the treatment of asthma, cough, haemorragic disorders, hepatitis and fevers. The leaves of the plant contain a mixture of alkaloid i.e., vasicine and vasicinone. Vasicine has numerous pharmacological activities viz., anti-malarial, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antidiabetic, anti-bacterial etc. The study on influence of IBA and NAA on rootin...

We performed a prospective, double-blinded study in 20 patients undergoing gynecologic surgery with lower abdominal incision, to investigate characteristics of intrathecal hyperbaric levobupivacaine compared with isobaric levobupivacaine. We randomly assigned them to receive 3 mL of either isobaric or hyperbaric 0.42% levobupivacaine intrathecally. We found that hyperbaric levobupivacaine, comp...

PURPOSE To evaluate changes in nucleus pulposus volume as a potential parameter for the effects of disc decompression. METHODS Fifty-two discs (T8 to L1) were extracted from 26 pigs and separated into thoracic (T8 to T11) and thoracolumbar discs (T12 to L1). The discs were imaged using 7.1 Tesla ultrahigh-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with acquisition of axial T2-weighted turbo spin-...

A study was conducted to evaluate the effect of mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) and probiotics (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) on broiler performance. Day-old chicks (n=360) strain (Cobb 400) were divided randomly into eight groups. Each represented a treatment (45 birds/ treatment) with triplicate in completely randomized design. The experimental diets designed as, T1: control, T2: 0.4% powder, T3: 0....

Abstract Study question Are morphokinetic embryo behavior and quality as per Known Implantation Diagnosis Score (KIDScore) assessment related to oocyte dimorphism in intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) cycles? Summary answer Morphokinetic KIDScore are positively with dimorphisms, which was demonstrated by delayed cell cleavage blastulation. What is known already As a routine procedure cycle...

An Agronomic investigation entitled “Performance of sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) Based intercropping system in kharif under different row proportion” was carried out at Agriculture College Farm, Nagpur during 2017-18. The experiment laid Randomized Block Design with nine treatments as T1- Sole sesame, T2 - green gram, T3 black T4 Sesame : Green gram 1:1 ratio, T5 2:1 T6 3:1 T7 Black T8 ratio and...

Induction of a G1 phase cell cycle arrest, caused primarily by the inhibition of cyclin-dependent-kinase 2 (cdk2), is a critical step in the differentiation of myoblasts into myotubes. Here, we report that two microRNAs, miR-322/424 and miR-503, are induced and promote cdk2 inhibition during myogenesis. These microRNAs down-regulate Cdc25A, the phosphatase responsible for removing inhibitory ph...

Clubroot, one of the most devastating diseases to the Brassicaceae family, is caused by the obligate biotrophic pathogen Plasmodiophora brassicae. However, studies of the molecular basis of disease resistance are still poor especially in quantitative resistance. In the present paper, two previously identified genotypes, a clubroot-resistant genotype (wild cabbage, B2013) and a clubroot-suscepti...