BACKGROUND/AIM Stimulant medications can enhance mood and cognition in stroke rehabilitation, but human clinical trial results are inconclusive. We sought to prospectively study the effects of levodopa (LD) and/or methylphenidate (MPH) in combination with physiotherapy on mood and cognition following stroke in human subjects. METHODS Ischemic stroke patients were enrolled in our study 15 to 1...

OBJECTIVE Postprandial hyperglycemia is often inadequately assessed in diabetes management. Serum 1,5-anhydroglucitol (1,5-AG) drops as serum glucose rises above the renal threshold for glucose and has been proposed as a marker for postprandial hyperglycemia. The objective of this study is to demonstrate the relationship between 1,5-AG and postprandial hyperglycemia, as assessed by the continuo...

Negative results are reported for five compounds tested against mouse Sarcoma 180. Twelve mice, 18 gm. Rockland and Carworth Farms mice, were used for each test. The tumors were implanted subcutaneously by trocar in the right axilla. When the implants were seven days old the compounds were in jected intraperitoneallytwice a day for seven days. The compounds were tested at the maximum non-lethal...

Septal reduction therapy (SRT) -i.e. septal myectomy and alcohol ablation-has been performed to treat medically refractory hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) for decades. However, it is largely unknown whether SRT prevents HCM-related cardiovascular events or death. The objective was examine the effects of on acute all-cause mortality in HCM. We a propensity score (PS) -matched study using datab...

Introduction: It has been suggested that oxidative stress has a crucial role in the pathophysiology of preeclampsia. In the present study, the effect of tempol, a synthetic antioxidant, on kidney injuries and oxidative stress was investigated in an experimental model of preeclampsia in rats. Methods: Preeclampsia was induced by oral administration of L-NAME to the rats on the day 10 of pregnanc...

Although outcomes for alternative schools may be mixed, it is generally agreed that counseling, therapy, group work, case management, and familycommunity involvement have been credited in some effective programs. is study examined program evaluations from 1994-1999 for an alternative school for chronically disruptive students (599 students, ages 9-22) that was funded by a state grant to assure...

It is reported that reactive oxygen species production has a critical role in the manifestations and complications of preeclampsia. In the present study, the effect of tempol on the response changes of aortic rings of preeclamptic rats has been studied. Preeclamptic rats (induced by L-NAME) were treated with three different oral doses of tempol (20, 60 and 180 mg/kg/day) from the Day 10 of gest...

The human anti-rabies pre-exposure treatment currently used in Brazil, employing a 1-ml dose of suckling mouse brain vaccine (SMBV) administered on days 0, 2, 4 and 28, was compared to an alternative treatment with two 1 ml-doses on day 0, and one 1 ml-dose injected on days 7 and 21. The latter induced higher virus-neutralizing antibody (VNA) titers on day 21. Both Brazilian rabies vaccines pro...

Bone marrow fibrosis is a hallmark of primary and post ET/PV myelofibrosis. To investigated the impact of replacement of the hematopoietic system in myelofibrosis patients by allogeneic stem cell transplantation on bone marrow fibrosis, we studied bone marrow fibrosis on bone marrow samples from 24 patients with myelofibrosis before and after dose-reduced conditioning followed by allogeneic ste...

AIMS In acute myocardial infarction (AMI), baseline hyperglycaemia predicts adverse outcomes, but the relation between subsequent change in glucose levels and outcomes is unclear. We evaluated the prognostic significance of baseline glucose and the change in glucose in the first 24 h following AMI. METHODS AND RESULTS We analysed 1469 AMI patients with baseline and 24 h glucose data from the ...