The saccharin test was carried out in a randomly selected sample of schoolchildren (142 boys and 153 girls, age range 11-14 years) to determine the variability and reproducibility of the test and to assess whether it could be used as a screening test for nasal mucociliary clearance. Nasal mucociliary clearance times were analysed according to clinical history (asthma, rhinitis, asthma with rhin...

Hollander's insulin test was evaluated by performing successively partial denervation of the parietal cell area, highly selective, selective, and truncal vagotomy operations on three dogs. The rise in acidity, the timing of the highest rise in acidity, and the rise in acid output were examined. The mean rise in acidity (m-equiv/l) before vagotomy (106 +/- SE11, 120 +/- 23, 60 +/- 16) did not di...

For over 30 years, attempts have been made to determine when to begin treating for walnut blight, Xanthomonas campestris pv. juglandis. Past trial results have always indicated that the best time to begin treating was just before significant moisture, usually in the form of rain, occurred. Without some control over the amount of moisture present, the time to begin treating could not be tied to ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE Sudden death after a conducted electrical weapon exposure has not been well studied. We examine the effects of a single Taser exposure on markers of physiologic stress in healthy humans. METHODS This is a prospective trial investigating the effects of a single Taser exposure. As part of their police training, 32 healthy law enforcement officers received a 5-second Taser electr...

We studied the effect of cardiopulmonary bypass, transient acute coronary occlusion (2-5 minutes), prolonged coronary occlusion (> 60 minutes), and coronary reperfusion on the left ventricular diastolic pressure-volume curve, using an isovolumic working canine heart preparation in which heart rate, intraventricular volume, and aortic pressure were controlled. Cardiopulmonary bypass caused no si...

The article is devoted to the study of such an element paratext as a title. object story modern Ukrainian writer Roman Malinovsky “Two minutes before midnight”. It was published in book “Sweet Life” 2021, and it reflected author’s consciousness danger life mankind that weapon carries. purpose reveal meanings story’s title, substantiate its representative, textforming role, determine how title h...

OBJECTIVE Left ventricular wall stress has been investigated in a variety of populations, but the effect of food intake has not been evaluated. We assessed whether left ventricular wall stress is affected by food intake in healthy subjects. METHODS Twenty-three healthy subjects aged 25.6 ± 4.5 years were investigated. Meridional end-systolic wall stress (ESS) and circumferential end-systolic ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the effects of the alpha(2)-adrenergic agonists (clonidine, apraclonidine, and guanfacine) on lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced aqueous flare elevation in pigmented rabbits. METHODS Anterior uveitis was induced with an intravenous injection of LPS (0.5 microg/kg) in an ear vein. The reproducibility of experimental uveitis induced by LPS (0.5 microg/kg) was also determined. ...