Background: Vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) plays an important role in modulating coronary blood flow and heart rate. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of eight weeks of low intensity aerobic exercise on plasma levels of VIP hormone, blood pressure and heart rate in healthy elderly men and women, and patients with coronary artery disease (CAD).Methods: In this s...

Background and Aim: Post-mortem structural changes in tissues cause technical difficulties in accurate histo-pathologic interpretation. In the present study, we evaluated the effects of microwave irradiation before tissue fixation on preventing post mortem autolysis and accelerating the process of tissue fixation in the kidneys. Materials and Methods: Twenty-four chickens randomly were divide...

  This research is a field study designed to-investigate the complication of patients, who underwent heart valve   Surgery and were hospitalized in intensive care unit.   In this research, the field files of those patient who had undergone surgical heart valve operation and were   hospitalized in intensive care units in 1992, have been selected as general research documents.   From the point of...

Abstract Introduction: Heart disease is a major cause of mortality in elderly people, and oxidative stress and inflammation lead to changes in myocardium, resulting in apoptosis and cardiac hypertrophy. Accordingly, this study aimed to investigate the effect of 8 weeks of regular aerobic training along with garlic extract consumption on SOD, MDA, CAT, IL-10, and TNF-α levels in the heart tissue...

Abstract Background: Reduced Nitric oxide (NO) synthesis has been reported in hypothyroidism. NO has many physiological and pathological roles. The purpose of this study was to determine NO metabolites, nitrate and nitrite (NOx), levels in serum and tissues of heart, brain, cerebellum and aorta of rats with fetal hypothyroidism. . Materials and methods: Hypothyroidism was induced in female rats...

the neogene intrusion masses in the noudeh-enghelab area located to the north of sabzevar ophiolite have cut the late cretaceous ophiolitic rocks, sedimentary- volcanic and eocene volcanic rocks and have been covered by pliocene and quaternary deposits. the margin is of lava with basalt, phyric andesite-basalt and andesite and the central parts (dome shaped) composed of phyric andesite-trachyan...

Background and Objectives: Heart-kidney disorders affect on each other. Exercise training can control heart and kidney cell damages. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of exercise training and warfarin administration on cardiac matrix Gla protein (MGP) and indices of renal injury in rats of myocardial infarction model. Materials and Methods: In this experimental study, 42 male Sp...

the following null hypothesis was proposed: h : there is no significant difference between the use of semantically or communicatively translates scientific texts. to test the null hypothesis, a number of procedures were taken first, two passages were selected form soyrcebooks of food and nutrition industry and gardening deciplines. each, in turn, was following by a number of comprehension quest...

‏‎despite the different criticisms on contrastive analysis it has been proved that the results of it(when processed) can be useful in a tefl environment, specially at the level of phonology.this study is an attempt to compare and contrast the sound systems of kurdish and english for pedagogical aims.the consonants,vowels,stress and intonation of the two languages are described by the same model...