abstract a simple and sensitive chemiluminescence (cl) method was developed for direct quantification of oxymorphone, a µ opioid agonist that is approximately 10 times more potent than morphine. in this method potassium permanganate in polyphosphoric acid was used as cl reagent. using this method, oxymorphone can be determined over the concentration ranges 13.5-337.8 ng ml-1 and 0.34-6.76 µg ml...

the current study investigated the effect of short-term selection for four week body weight (bw) on performance of divergent lines of japanese quail and their crosses. the mean of bw at hatching time, one, two, three and four week oldand bw at sexual maturity time, age at sexual maturity, number of eggs (from 50 to 100 days old), mean of egg weight, percentage of fertility and hatchability in e...

objective: the clinical use of cisplatin is highly restricted, because of its nephrotoxicity.in this study the protective effect of nigella sativa (n. sativa) against cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity was investigated in rats. materials and methods: in the current study, the effects of the administration of aqueous-ethanolic extract of n. sativa (100 and 200 mg/kg, bw) and vitamin e (100 mg/kg, ...

Metalloporphirins; Cu(TPP), Mn(TPP)Cl, CO(TPP), Fe(TPP)Cl, zn(TPP) and Mn(OBP)Cl catalyze region and chemoselective silylation of hydroxyl groups with HMDS. Fe(TPP)Cl is the most effective catalyst and silylation occurs immediately in its presence at room temperature.

background: the prevalence of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ancas) and anti-cardiolipin antibodies (anti-cl ab) in behcet’s disease (bd) and also their roles in vascular involvement is controversial. objective: to assess the prevalence of ancas and anti-cl ab as well as their correlations with clinical manifestations in iranian patients with bd. methods: in this case/control study, th...

The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of birth weight (BW) on future milk production and reproductive performance in Iranian Holstein cattle. Records of Holstein cows between 1967 and 2010 were obtained from the Animal Breeding Center of Iran. Birth weights within each herd were grouped into five categories based on the standard normal distribution curves (z ≤-0.8416, -0.841...

We report a female patient who repeatedly developed pancreatitis after trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP/SMX) use. During childhood she had undergone an ureterosigmoidostomy after which she had been on TMP/SMX 480 mg daily as prophylaxis for pyelonephritis for many years. The patient presented with abdominal pain caused by acute pancreatitis. No other cause, except for TMP/SMX use, could be id...

1 12 | introduction and outline introduction Working with people who experience severe psychological trauma leaves the therapist sometimes shocked about their horrifying, almost unbelievable histories and about the scars this may have caused, and at the same time intrigued by the way people were able to survive. In my daily practice, listening to details of a history of child abuse from a patie...