pathological changes in pulp and periapical tissues are addressed by endodontic treatment. the material used in this treatment must be biocompatible. the aim of this study is to compare the skin reaction of calcium enriched mixture (cem) and mineral trioxide aggregate (mta) produced in iran on rabbit. sixteen male newzeland albino rabbits weighting 2 kg were used. the animals back hair was shav...

In presenting the case for fortified flour I have purposely tried to avoid argument and to deal with established facts. I must, however, recall the strong preference of the public for white bread as against even the slightly darker bread made from 80% extraction flour. I can, of course, give, and on other occasions have given, proof of it, but I am assuming that it is accepted by this Society, ...

Magnetic resonance imaging has proven its potential application in bread dough and gas cell monitoring studies, and dynamic processes such as dough proving and baking can be monitored. However, undesirable magnetic susceptibility effects often affect quantification studies, especially at high fields. A new low-field method is presented based on local assessment of porosity in spin-echo imaging,...

background: latrodectism, a syndrome caused by latrodectus genus, is one of the clinical problems that occur predominantly in north east of iran. nowadays antivenom therapy has become the most useful treatment for animal bites; however there is still a controversy about route and time of antivenom administration in spider bite. the aim of the present study was to determine the efficacy of speci...

BACKGROUND Gastric tonometry is used to assess gastrointestinal mucosal perfusion in critically ill patients. However, enteral feeding is withheld during monitoring with gastric tonometry because enteral feeding is thought to influence tonometric measurements. OBJECTIVES To examine the effect of enteral feeding on the tonometric measurement of gastric mucosal carbon dioxide. METHODS Gastric...

wheat flour is a commodity with a high risk of aflatoxins (afs) contamination. during the bread making there are many processes that can affect the afs stability. the effect of bread making process using different yeast types on afs levels was investigated. for this purpose, standards of afs including b and gwere added to flour and then bread loaves were prepared. three types of commercially av...