Rehmannia glutinosa is an important medicinal herb that cannot be replanted in the same field due to the effects of autotoxic substances. The effects of these substances on R. glutinosa in continuous cropping systems are unknown. In the present study, bioassays revealed that R. glutinosa exhibited severe growth restriction and higher disease indices in the FO+FA (F.oxysporum pretreated with fer...

This study investigated the protective effect of fish oil (FO) on cisplatin (CP) toxicity in the rat liver. Twenty-eight rats were divided equally into four groups, with the first being a control group. The second group (CP group) was given 7 mg/kg of CP and the third group (FO group) was given 1 FO softgel/rat/day for 14 days. The rats in the fourth group (CP + FO group) were treated with both...

We present a simple and rapid methodology to characterize the water and solute permeability coefficients (A and B, respectively) and structural parameter (S) of forward osmosis (FO) membranes. The methodology comprises a single FO experiment divided into four stages, each using a different concentration of draw solution. The experimental water and reverse salt fluxes measured in each stage are ...

AIMS Pre-treatment with dietary ω3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (ω3-PUFA) has been reported to reduce the incidence of new-onset atrial fibrillation (AF) following cardiac surgery. In a canine cardiac surgery model, we evaluated the impact of dietary ω3-PUFA on atrial electrophysiological properties, inflammatory markers, the atrial endothelin-1 (ET-1) system, and the expression and distribution...

The XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) specification was designed from the start to be locale and language neutral. This makes XSL-FO well suited to the task of composing for print internationalized documents, and in particular, documents in non-Western languages. However, users of XSL-FO are dependent on both the implementation of XSL-FO internationalization features, such as support for differen...

Membrane fouling properties and different physical cleaning methods for forward osmosis (FO) and reverse osmosis (RO) laboratory-scale filtration systems were investigated. The membrane fouling, with respect to flux reduction, was lower in FO than in RO when testing an activated sludge effluent. Crossflow velocity, air-scouring, osmotic backwashing and effect of a spacer were compared to determ...

Early events in response to abrupt increases in activation and loading with muscle functional overload (FO) are associated with increased damage and inflammation. Heat shock protein 25 (HSP25) may protect against these stressors, and its expression can be regulated by muscle loading and activation. The purpose of this study was to investigate the responses of HSP25, phosphorylated HSP25 (pHSP25...

It has been argued that the linear database model in which semi linear sets are the only geometric objects is very suitable for most spatial database applications For querying linear databases the lan guage FO linear has been proposed We present both negative and positive results regarding the expressiveness of FO linear First we show that the dimension query is de nable in FO linear which allo...

Human apolipoprotein B (apoB) transgenic (HuBTg) mouse strains were used to assess genetic effects on the response to fish oil (FO), a source of n-3 fatty acids. A congenic HuBTg strain of the C57BL/6 (B6) background and six F1 HuBTg strains were fed a FO for 2 weeks. Different responses of plasma lipid levels to FO were observed among these strains. In particular, plasma apoB levels changed mi...

BACKGROUND Sepsis plays an important role in acute gastrointestinal injury (AGI). Our research was designed to determine the effects of omega-3 fish oil (FO) in patients suffering from severe sepsis combined with AGI III, and the ability of FO to modulate immune function. METHODS Seventy-eight patients diagnosed with severe sepsis with AGI III and a need for mechanical ventilation were random...