introduction: mental stress is one of the most important causes of the gastric ulcer. on the other hand, flavonoids such as quercetin show protective effects. the aim of this study was to investigate possible protective effect of quercetin on water restraint stress-induced ulcer in rats. methods: adult male wistar rats were divided into seven groups each containing eight animals. the first grou...

PURPOSE To evaluate the effects of various factors on the variability of retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness measurements using the Stratus optical coherence tomography (OCT) in normal and glaucomatous eyes. METHODS Four hundred seventy-four subjects (103 normal eyes and 371 glaucomatous eyes) were scanned to determine the RNFL thickness measurements using the Stratus OCT. Measurements...

BACKGROUND Atherosclerosis is associated with disturbed blood flow characterized by low and oscillatory shear stress (SS), however, few study directly links SS to neointimal hyperplasia in animal model. This study was focused on the effects of changed SS upon the neointimal hyperplasia which responded to balloon injury in a novel rabbit model with partially-constricted abdominal aorta. METHOD...

Adherence of sickle (SS) erythrocytes to endothelial cells represents interactions between red blood cell (RBC) and endothelial cell surface molecules. To enhance our understanding of the ligands involved, we transfected COS cells with the cDNAs of two endothelial cell adhesion molecules, VCAM-1 and E-selectin, and measured the binding of normal and sickle RBCs after static incubation. The perc...

‎In the classical group theory there is‎ an open question‎: ‎Is every torsion free n-Engel group (for n ≥ 4)‎, nilpotent?‎. ‎To answer the question‎, ‎Traustason‎ [11] showed that with some additional conditions all‎ ‎4-Engel groups are locally nilpotent‎. ‎Here‎, ‎we gave some partial‎ answer to this question on Engel fuzzy subgroups‎. ‎We show that if μ is a normal 4-Engel fuzzy‎ subgroup of ...

Let H be a subgroup of a group G. H is said to be S-embedded in G if G has a normal T such that HT is an S-permutable subgroup of G and H ∩ T ≤ H sG, where H denotes the subgroup generated by all those subgroups of H which are S-permutable in G. In this paper, we investigate the influence of minimal S-embedded subgroups on the structure of finite groups. We determine the structure the finite grou...

Increased adhesive forces between sickle erythrocytes and endothelial cells (EC) have been hypothesized to play a role in the initiation of vasoocclusion in sickle cell anemia. Erythrocyte/human umbilical vein EC interactions were studied under controlled flow conditions for normal (AA), homozygous sickle cell (SS), sickle cell trait (AS), mechanically injured normal, and "high-reticulocyte con...

We are concerned with conditions under which a locally compact group G has a maximal compact normal subgroup K and whether or not G/K is a Lie group. If G has small compact normal subgroups K such that G/K is a Lie group, then G is pro-Lie. If in G there is a collection of closed normal subgroups {Ha} such that f~| Ha = e and G/Ha is a Lie group for each a, then G is a residual Lie group. We de...

In this paper, a simple structure dual-core photonic crystal fiber (SS-DC-PCF) polarization beam splitter (PBS) based on the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) effect and symmetric coupling mode theory is proposed. For proposed SS-DC-PCF-1 PBS, lengths (CLs) length ratio (CLR) are analyzed, variations of normalized output powers with propagation investigated for chosen wavelengths 1.434, 1.451, 1....