Objective: Most   neonates admitted to neonatal wards do not tolerate sufficient milk.  Recently the effect of erythromycin on increasing feeding tolerance in neonates has been studied. In this study the effectiveness of oral, high dose Erythromycin a prokinetic agent was used to enhance feeding tolerance in these neonates.  Methods: This prospective randomized controlled clinical trial was con...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To compare continuous versus intermittent administration of piperacillin-tazobactam with regard to clinical, microbiologic, and economic outcomes. DESIGN Prospective, open-label controlled study SETTING Community teaching hospital. PATIENTS Ninety-eight hospitalized patients prescribed piperacillin-tazobactam. INTERVENTION Substitutions were implemented so that 47 patien...

SEVERAL studies have compared the effects of sucrose and other carbohydrates on caries activity in rats receiving modifications of cariogenic diet 2000 of KEY= and JORDAN (1964) and it has been concluded that complete or intermittent replacement of dietary sucrose with other carbohydrates results in greater inhibition of caries on the molar smooth surfaces of rats than in the deep molar fissure...

/ 11 Abstract / 12 / 13 One prerequisite for plant functional genomic projects is the development of a high-throughput transformation platform. As the / 14 moss Physcomitrella patens can be transformed via PEG-mediated DNA-uptake into protoplasts, a semi-continuous bioreactor / 15 culture of this plant was optimised regarding protoplast isolation efficiencies. Under standard conditions protopla...

Background: one of the leading clinical problems for premature neonates especially with very low birth weight is the type and amount of feeding. The authors aimed to compare outcomes of slow versus rapid feeding in premature neonates hospitalized in Al-Zahra hospital, Rasht. Methods: This is a clinical trial that was conducted on 62 premature neonates aged less than 35 weeks of gestation who w...

To reduce the membrane fouling in an immersed membrane bioreactor (MBR) during the treatment of food wastewater, an additional continuous stirring was introduced. The results showed that both a better membrane performance and a higher degradation efficiency for food wastewater were obtained. The membrane contributed mostly in concentrating the activated sludge. The bioreactor ensured the degrad...

BACKGROUND Recent trials have shown controversial results on which enteral feeding methods has a lower risk of enteral feeding intolerance. Therefore, we aimed to compare two methods of bolus and intermittent feeding on enteral feeding intolerance of patients with sepsis. METHODS This triple-blind randomized controlled trial was conducted on 60 patients with sepsis, who were fed through tubes f...

The aim of the present study was to clarify clinical factors in low birth weight infants and their mothers associated with exclusive breastfeeding at both neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) discharge and the start of complementary feeding. One hundred and fifteen low birth weight children and 98 mothers attending the follow-up clinic of two tertiary NICUs in Nara prefecture (Japan), between Ju...

Biofiltration for volatile organic compound control in waste gas streams is best operated at steady contaminant loadings. To provide long-term stable operation of a biofilter under adverse contaminant feeding conditions, an integrated bioreactor system with a gas separation membrane module installed after a biofilter was proposed for styrene treatment. Styrene was treated effectively, with aver...