Carbon monoxide (CO) produced by heme oxygenase (HO)-1 and HO-2 or released from the CO-donor, tricarbonyldichlororuthenium (II) dimer (CORM-2) causes vasodilation, with unknown efficacy against stress-induced gastric lesions. We studied whether pretreatment with CORM-2 (0.1-10 mg/kg oral gavage (i.g.)), RuCl₃ (1 mg/kg i.g.), zinc protoporphyrin IX (ZnPP) (10 mg/kg intraperitoneally (i.p.)), he...

Background: Many elderly individuals complain of difficulty in understanding speech in noise despite having normal hearing thresholds. According to previous studies, auditory training leads to improvement in speech-in-noise perception, but these studies did not consider the etiology, so their results cannot be generalized. The present study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of envelope-b...

In this article, a new technique for grooming low-speed traffic demands into high-speed optical routes is proposed. This enhancement allows a transparent WavelengthRouting Switch (WRS) to aggregate traffic en route over existing optical routes without incurring expensive Optical-ElectricalOptical (OEO) conversions. This implies that: a) an optical route may be considered as having more than one...

BACKGROUND Weight loss has been shown to reduce risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease and diabetes; however, successful maintenance of weight loss continues to pose a challenge. OBJECTIVE The present study was designed to assess whether changes in subcutaneous adipose tissue (scAT) gene expression during a low-calorie diet (LCD) could be used to differentiate and predict subject...

Impairment of blood perfusion in gastric mucosa results in the formation of erosions and ulcers. Nitric oxide (NO), produced via activity of NO-synthase (NOS), appears to be a one of major factors, involved in the regulation of the gastric blood flow (GBF). Inhibition of this enzyme by N-nitro-L-arginine (L-NNA) results in local decrease of NO production, reduces GBF and impairs gastric mucosal...

To provide a detailed analysis framework for WAAS accuracy prediction, a new method has been developed which combines GPS geometry simulation with leastsquares covariance analysis. This approach considers all standard ranging errors for each WAAS reference station receiver and user, including satellite clock, SA-induced latency, ephemeris, multipath, receiver noise, troposphere and ionosphere e...

Road traffic emission inventories based on bottom-up methodology, are calculated for each road segment from fuel consumption and volume data obtained during field measurements in Yopougon. High emissions of black carbon (BC) vehicles observed at major intersections, areas surrounding industrial zones highways. Highest values monoxide (CO) (14.8 t/d) nitrogen oxides (NOx) (7.9 t/d), usually cons...

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OBJECTIVE To characterize the audiometric natural progression in patient-ears with small volume (<1,000 mm), treatment-naïve cochleovestibular schwannomas (CVSs) in Neurofibromatosis Type 2 (NF2). STUDY DESIGN Prospective, longitudinal cohort study. SETTING Quaternary medical research institute. PATIENTS One hundred eleven ears in 71 NF2 patients with small, treatment-naïve CVSs observed ...

Background: Many elderly individuals complain of difficulty in understanding speech in noise despite having normal hearing thresholds. According to previous studies, auditory training leads to improvement in speech-in-noise perception, but these studies did not consider the etiology, so their results cannot be generalized. The present study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of envelopeba...