objective: the current study aimed to determine the efficacy of radioiodine-131 (131i) ablation therapy with thyroid hormone replacement one day before 131i administration in patients with well-differentiated thyroid cancer (dtc). methods: this retrospective study included 29 patients who underwent 131i therapies twice for dtc during 6-12 months.  since all the patients obviously had residual l...

an in vivo experiment was conducted to determine the effect of dietary betaine supplementation (betafin®) as a replacement for methionine on broiler performance and carcass characteristics. in a completely randomized design (crd) with five treatments of betaine levels (at 0, 25, 50, 75, and 100% in replacement for methionine) and five replicates of 10 birds/replicate, two hundred fifty-day-...

Essential hypertension affects 75% of post-menopausal women in the United States causing greater cardiovascular complications compared with age-matched men and pre-menopausal women. Hormone replacement and current anti-hypertensive therapies do not correct this post-menopausal increased risk suggesting a distinct pathogenic framework. We investigated the hypothesis that distinct genetic determi...

Cyclic peptide backbone and cystine constraints were used to develop a broadly active salt-insensitive antimicrobial peptide [Gly(6)]ccTP 1a with eight Gly residues in an 18-residue sequence. The importance of rigidity and amphipathicity imparted by the cyclic and cystine constraints was examined in two peptide series based on tachyplesin, a known beta-stranded antimicrobial peptide. The first ...

BACKGROUND Aldosterone synthase (CYP11B2) deficiency is a rare autosomal recessive disorder, usually presenting with severe salt-wasting in infancy or stress-induced hyperkalaemia and postural hypotension in adulthood. Neonatal screening for congenital adrenal hyperplasia, another cause of salt wasting, using 17-hydroxyprogesterone measurement would fail to detect aldosterone synthase deficienc...

Today power consumption is considered to be one of the important issues. Therefore, its reduction plays a considerable role in developing systems. Previous studies have shown that approximately 50% of total power consumption is used in cache memories. There is a direct relationship between power consumption and replacement quantity made in cache. The less the number of replacements is, the less...

Recent studies suggested that type 2 angiotensin receptor (AT2R) could contribute to regulation of blood pressure and/or vascular remodeling. A key question relates to the effects of potential modulators of vascular AT2R expression. In the present work, we evaluated if high salt intake (70 mmol/L NaCl in drinking water) could modulate rat mesenteric artery AT2R function and expression. Angioten...

there are occasional reports of using the appendix to replace sections of the ureters, and to our knowledge, only a couple of them were in the left side. we used the appendix as a ureteral substitute in two cases in technically difficult parts, the upper left ureter and the first part of the right ureter. follow-ups of8 years and 6 months in right and left side cases, respectively, are impressi...

The aim of this study was to analyze effect cherry tomato paste for nitrite replacement on loin ham. Loin hams were prepared with at three levels curing solutions (control: NPS 1.2%, salt 1.2% and 1%, 3%, 5%). pH tended decrease as the amount increased. lightness decreased a significant difference increased (p<0.05). Yellowness chroma increase in paste, while redness hue angle treatment 3% t...

Apolipoprotein B (apoB) synthesis rates have been determined, in vivo, in rat enterocytes. Following intralumenal administration of a pulse of [3H]leucine, newly synthesized apoB was quantitated by specific immunoprecipitation and compared to [3H]leucine incorporation into total, trichloroacetic acid-insoluble protein. ApoB synthesis rates were determined after acute administration of either 0....