Tropical dry forests are among the most threatened ecosystems worldwide. Bats' role in those is critical because of multiple bat-mediated processes. Such processes strongly related to bats' functional traits. However, it poorly known which bat's traits could relate variations environmental conditions tropical forests. In this study, we tested hypotheses that bat would be significantly associate...

Although plausible pathophysiological mechanisms link air pollution to arrhythmo­ genesis, among them altered autonomic tone, repolarization abnormalities, oxidative stress, myocardial ischemia, and increased intracardiac pressure (Link and Dockery 2010), definitive conclusions have not been reached as yet. Langrish et al. (2014) analyzed 13 double­blind randomized crossover studies and found n...

Background: The sutural bones and fontanelle of the skull display unique morphological characters. Sutural bones are also called supernumerary bones or ossicles or Wormian bones (WB). These are irregular and develop from the independent ossification centers present along the cranial sutures. They appear on periosteal and endosteal surfaces of the skull with variations in size, number, shape, an...

purpose: to investigate the effect of ccl2c-2512t polymorphism on age-related macular degeneration (amd). methods: this study enrolled 48 patients originating from northeast of iran who suffered from dry type amd. the association of c-2518t in the promoter region of ccl2 gene was investigated using polymerase chain reaction (pcr) and restriction fragment length polymorphism (rflp). control grou...

Although plausible pathophysiological mechanisms link air pollution to arrhythmo­ genesis, among them altered autonomic tone, repolarization abnormalities, oxidative stress, myocardial ischemia, and increased intracardiac pressure (Link and Dockery 2010), definitive conclusions have not been reached as yet. Langrish et al. (2014) analyzed 13 double­blind randomized crossover studies and found n...

BACKGROUND Dry eye is a common disease. Many patients continue to experience residual symptoms despite optimal treatment. Thus, new treatment options are required. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] levels and dry eye. METHODS This study was performed using data from the fifth Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination S...