Monitoring activated clotting time (ACT) during extracorporeal procedures is virtually universal. The ACT test is usually performed immediately following blood collection. However, certain situations may occur that delay rapid measurement. It is unknown how an aged blood sample affects the ACT measurement. It is hypothesized that the ACT will be affected as a blood sample ages. Multiple blood s...

Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia Mill.) is one of the most widely grown essential oil crops in the world. Commercial extraction of lavender oil is done using steam distillation. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of the length of the distillation time (DT) on lavender essential oil yield and composition when extracted from dried flowers. Therefore, the following distillation...

BACKGROUND Arterial hypertension is a serious health problem affecting mainly the elderly population. Recent studies have considered both aerobic and resistance exercises as a non-pharmacological aid for arterial hypertension treatment. However, the cardiovascular responses of the elderly to isometric resistance exercise (eg, isometric handgrip [IHG]) have not yet been documented. OBJECTIVE T...

laboratory experiments were performed to determine the effect of various scarification treatments at four temperature regimes on germination of licorice seeds . a randomized complete block design with four replications was used. germination counts were made every day for 2 weeks. at 50c, none of the chemically and mechanically scarified and non scarified seeds germinated. at 15, 25, and 350...

BACKGROUND The optimal time to save a person who has had a sudden cardiac arrest is within the first few minutes of the incident. Early compression and early defibrillation should be performed at this time. Timeliness is the key to successful CPR; as such, Prof. He proposed the "platinum 10 min" system to study early CPR issues. This paper systematically evaluates the success rates of heartbeat...

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether nausea or gastric dysrhythmia, including tachygastria, which was determined by electrogastrography (EGG), were observed during optokinetic motion sickness in healthy Japanese volunteers. Twelve volunteers (9 men and 3 women) participated in the study. The subjects were asked to sit in a chair with their heads positioned in the center of a dru...

We studied the determinants of kinin release into the venous effluent of rat hindquarters perfused with Krebs bicarbonate buffer. Kinin release in preparations perfused with control media (14.6 ± 2.5-20.7 ± 6.7 pg/15 min) was surpassed by that in preparations perfused with media containing kininase inhibitors (243 ± 53 to 276 ± 78 pg/15 min). Kinin release increased when purified kininogen (fro...