BACKGROUND In women with vaginal hypoplasia, such as in Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome (MRKH) and in Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (CAIS), surgical vaginoplasty and non-surgical self-dilation treatments are available to lengthen the vagina and facilitate sexual intercourse, but the best treatment remains controversial. Vaginal dilation has been recommended as a first-line tr...

Cyprinus carpio is a stenohaline species but can tolerate some ranges of changes in environmental salinities, so histomorphological methods and Na+-K+ ATPase and Aquaporin 3 immunohistochemistry were performed on common carp kidney as an osmoregulatory organ in experimental groups and control in order to investigate their possible roles during salinity challenge. Five groups of fish (n=25) with...

This model ties gravitation and celestial mechanics kinematics directly to time dilation. It is a new theory of cosmology the evolution galaxies. Space are not two separate things, but aspects single thing, “spacetime”. Whatever affects space, time, vice-versa. If speeds up, space must contract maintain speed light, c, when thickens into mass, it harder evolve forward, appears slow. spatial eve...

The intermediate filament vimentin might play a key role in vascular resistance to mechanical stress. We investigated the responses to pressure (tensile stress) and flow (shear stress) of mesenteric resistance arteries perfused in vitro from vimentin knockout mice. Arteries were isolated from homozygous (Vim-/-, n = 14) or heterozygous vimentin-null mice (Vim+/-, n = 5) and from wild-type litte...

Understanding the bimodal duration distribution (dynamic range > 10) of γ-ray bursts is central to determining if the phenomenon is in fact a singular one. A unifying concept, beyond isotropy and inhomogeneity of the two groups separately, is that bursts consist of pulses, organized in time and energy: wider pulses are more asymmetric, their centroids are shifted to later times at lower energie...

Renal pelvic dilation refers to excessive of the fetal intrarenal collecting system. Although a different terminology is used, pelviectasis or pyelectasis most often mild dilation, and hydronephrosis reserved for severe cases that are more likely be clinically significant. Normal measurements anteroposterior renal pelvis diameter <4 mm at 16 27 weeks gestation <7 ≥28 gestation.1Odibo A.O. March...

PURPOSE To investigate blood creatinine and renal histology in rats anesthetized with S(+)-ketamine (keta) or dexmedetomidine (dex) and submitted to kidney ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI). METHODS Under intraperitoneal (ip) S(+)-ketamine, 20 male Wistar rats were divided into two groups (n=10): maintenance with iv S(+)-ketamine or dex (keta and dex groups), and submitted to right (R) nephre...