introduction: multiple sclerosis (ms) and its animal model, experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (eae), is a chronic inflammatory diseases and degenerative myelin in the cns. with respect to being the main cause of this disease is unknown; the most common treatments for the disease (ms) with the aim of suppressing harmful inflammatory responses are used. neuro transmitters having immunosup...

the aim followed in the present study was to evaluate the effect of estradiol (e2) injection and injection (either intramuscular (i.m) or intravenous (i.v)) of various doses of oxytocin (ot) on cervix dilation and on conception rate in zandi ewes during late breeding season. sixty three ewes were randomly selected. in experiment 1, the ewes received 100 µl e2 and 12h later were divided and assi...

OBJECTIVES To investigate whether childhood cancer is associated with intramuscular administration of vitamin K to newborn infants. DESIGN Routines for administration of vitamin K to infants born after normal deliveries during 1973-89 were obtained from maternity hospitals. Occurrence of cancer up to the end of 1991 was identified by comparing these records with the national cancer registry. ...

Four experiments were conducted to investigate the effect of fat-soluble vitamin administration to sows or newborn pigs on plasma vitamin status. In Exp. 1 and 2, a total of 24 and 43 newborn pigs were allotted to control and vitamin treatments (vitamin D3 with variable addition of vitamins A and E) orally or by i.m. injection. In Exp. 3, pigs from Exp. 2 were allotted to 2 treatments (±vitamin...

rfHE ANNOUNCE\-IENT of the discoveryof vitamin 1312 in 1948 byRickes, et a!.’ in this coumitry amid hi y Smith, et al.2 in Emiglamid imiitiat-e(! its use in various climiical entities. The principal use has been in the treatment of permiicious -anemia. The dosage of this drug has beemi more or less empirically established!. The hematologic amid subjective responses of the patient with permiicio...

background and aims: methotrexate (mtx), a folic acid antagonist, is widely used as a treatment for malignancies as well as in the treatment of various inflammatory and autoimmune disorders. nephrotoxicity is an important side-effect of this drug. prevention and treatment of mtx-induced renal dysfunction are essential to prevent potentially life-threatening mtx-associated toxicities, present st...

two independent experiments were conducted with broilers to determine the effect of threonine and vitamin a on immune system. in first experiment, dietary treatments contained 0.8%, 0.87%, 0.94 % and 1.01 % total threonine. in second experiment, diets were as follows: basal diet without vitamin a; basal diet plus 1500 iu/kg vitamin a; basal diet plus 6250 iu/kg vitamin a; basal diet plus 11000 ...

BACKGROUND Acute pain management following thoracoscopic sympathectomy (TS) has been described in the literature. The combination of interpleural (IP) injection of bupivacaine and intramuscular injection. (I.M) NSAIDs has not been reported. Therefore we conducted this randomized controlled trial to compare this technique to other reported techniques described for postoperative analgesia followi...