STUDY OBJECTIVE We compare the effects of postinjury administration of allopregnanolone, a metabolite of progesterone, to progesterone in an animal model of transient middle cerebral artery occlusion. METHODS Focal cerebral ischemia was induced in age-matched, adult, male, Sprague-Dawley rats by using an intraluminal filament and suture method to occlude the right middle cerebral artery. Afte...

Navid Freidoonimehr 1, Mohammad Mehdi Rashidi 2,3, Shirley Abelman 4,* and Giulio Lorenzini 5 1 Young Researchers & Elite Club, Hamedan Branch, Islamic Azad University, 65181-15743, Hamedan, Iran; [email protected] 2 Shanghai Key Lab of Vehicle Aerodynamics and Vehicle Thermal Management Systems, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China; [email protected] 3 ENN-Tongji Clean Energ...

In order to further improve the whole vehicle economy of a novel plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), considering two main factors, which are the driving working conditions and the driving distance, influencing the whole vehicle economy, a control strategy based on fuzzy self-adaptive online recognition is provided. A fuzzy working condition recognition algorithm is designed to online recogn...

A pathology of brain serotonergic (5-HT) systems has been found in psychiatric disturbances, normal aging and in neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. Despite the clinical importance of 5-HT, little is known about the endogenous factors that have neurotrophic influences upon 5-HT neurons. The present study examined whether chronic pain parenchymal administra...

Mohammad Mehdi Rashidi 1,2, Muhammad Mubashir Bhatti 3, Munawwar Ali Abbas 4 and Mohamed El-Sayed Ali 5,* 1 Shanghai Key Lab of Vehicle Aerodynamics and Vehicle Thermal Management Systems, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China; [email protected] 2 ENN-Tongji Clean Energy Institute of Advanced Studies, Tongji University, Shanghai 200072, China 3 Shanghai Institute of Applied Mathematics a...

Muhammad Mubashir Bhatti 1, Tehseen Abbas 2, Mohammad Mehdi Rashidi 3,4 and Mohamed El-Sayed Ali 5,* 1 Shanghai Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China; [email protected] 2 Department of Mathematics, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan; [email protected] 3 Shanghai Key Lab of Vehicle Aerodynamics and Vehicle Thermal Ma...

The effects of levosimendan on cerebrovascular lesions and mortality were investigated in models of primary and secondary stroke. We aimed to determine whether the effects of levosimendan are comparable to and/or cumulative with those of valsartan, and to investigate whether levosimendan-induced vasodilation has a role in its effects on stroke. In a primary stroke Dahl/Rapp rat model, mortality...

the present work compared the clinical efficacy of ropically applied vitamin d3 (cholecalciferol), i a, 25 dihydroxy vitamin d3 (cakitriol) with calcipotriol (dovonex} in the treatment of plaque psoriasis. a randomized, double - blind, left - right, vehicle controlled study to assess the therapeutic efficacy and safety of mice daily application of 1 pg/g and 5 fj.g1g chalecakiferol. 1 pglg calc...