BACKGROUND Egg laying in Magang geese is characterized by extended interruption between clutches and lowing laying rate. Both the ovarian follicular development and ovulation characteristics, and the associated endocrine and molecular regulatory mechanisms involved are poorly understood, but could be important for guiding development of molecule aided selection of egg laying performances in gee...

To examine the detailed composition of glycosaminoglycans during bovine ovarian follicular development and atresia, the specialized stromal theca layers were separated from the stratified epithelial granulosa cells of healthy (n=6) and atretic (n=6) follicles in each of three size ranges: small (3-5mm), medium (6-9mm) and large (10mm or more) (n=29 animals). Fluorophore-assisted carbohydrate el...

OBJECT To identify pre-operative prognostic parameters for survival in patients with spinal epidural neoplastic metastasis when the primary tumour is unknown. METHODS This study was a retrospective chart review of patients who underwent surgery for spinal epidural neoplastic metastases between February 1997 and January 2011. The inclusion criteria were as follows: known post-operative surviva...

PATIENT Female, 60 FINAL DIAGNOSIS: Large-cell neuroendocrine carcinoma Symptoms: Back pain Medication: - Clinical Procedure: Vertebroplasty Specialty: Oncology. OBJECTIVE Unusual clinical course. BACKGROUND An atypical presentation of large-cell neuroendocrine carcinoma was diagnosed from a metastatic nodule on the chest wall. CASE REPORT The patient was a 60-year-old female who presente...

Ropivacaine test dose in extradural anaesthesia Morton and colleagues 1 have described the use of 0.75% ropiva-caine for extradural anaesthesia, and in the process have clearly demonstrated the unsuitability of this agent as a test dose. The aim of an extradural test dose is to identify inadvertent i.v. or intrathecal catheter placement. It should have high sensitivity, but produce symptoms tha...

traumatic brain injury is a leading cause of disability and death from injury in the world. the interleukin-1 (il-1) is a family of cytokines that act as key mediators of the inflammatory response peripherally and centrally. based on many studies, researchers found that the il-1 is the well-known molecule in relation to acute tbi in the models of both focal and diffuse injuries. the il-1 family...

background hepatitis c virus (hcv) is a major cause of chronic liver disease worldwide. the role of intra familial hcv transmission is still controversial. the aim of the present study is to determine intra familial transmission (sexual and non sexual contacts) of hcv in a group of iranian population. patients and methods in this historical cohort study, 270 first degree relatives of hepatitis ...

objective: to determine the preventive effects of local administration of simvastatin for postoperative intra-abdominal adhesion formation in animal model of rat . methods: in this experimental study, 32 wistar albino rats as the animal model of intra-abdominal adhesion formation were included. adhesions were induced in all the animals via abrasion of the peritoneal and intestinal surface durin...