Centella asiatica extract on cognition and hippocampal pathology of mild chronic cerebral hypoperfusion (CCH) that was induced by permanent right common carotid artery occlusion (RCO) in rats. Materials and Methods: Sixty-four male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into four groups of Sham-veh, Sham-C. asiatica, RCO-veh and RCO-C. asiatica, which were further divided into short-term and...

Objective(s): Cognitive defects such as learning and memory impairment are amongst the most repetitious sequelae after sever and moderate traumatic brain injury (TBI). It was suggested that ellagic acid (EA), an innate phenol product, display neuroprotective properties against oxidative and inflammatory damages after brain injury. The object of the current study was therapeutic properties of EA...

objective: the present study was hypothesized to investigate the beneficial effects of fresh, aged, and cooked garlic extracts on blood glucose and memory of diabetic rats induced by streptozocine (stz). material and methods: diabetes was induced by an intraperitoneal injection of stz (60 mg/kg body weight). an oral dose of 1000 mg/kg of each garlic extract was given daily for 4 weeks after dia...

Introduction Minocycline is a safe, widely prescribed antibiotic which has beneficial effects against apoptotic cell death, inflammation, and microglial activation. Initial clinical evidence suggests minocycline improves negative symptoms in schizophrenia if added adjunctively to usual therapy [1]. Pre-clinically it has also been shown that minocycline can reverse the behavioural effects of NMD...

BACKGROUND Several kinds of anti-oxidants have drawn a lot of intention for their benefits on vascular protection. In addition, it has been demonstrated that exercise training could improve endothelial function by up-regulating endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) protein. Therefore, the present study aims to investigate the effects of genistein, a potent phyto-antioxidant, and exercise tra...

Objectives: The antiparkinsonian effect of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor subtype 2B (NR2B) antagonists remain controversial. To determine the effects of NR2B antagonist on Parkinson's disease (PD), the effect of a single administration of D1R agonist SKF38393 (SKF) and NR2B antagonist ifenprodil or co-administration of ifenprodil and SKF were investigated using the cylinder test. Materia...

Three vehicle-to-vehicle communication schemes by Kounga et al. (“Proving reliability of anonymous information in VANETs,” IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 58, no. 6, pp. 2977–2989, Jul. 2009) were recently published to address the issues of certificate management, scalability, and privacy. We present a number of attacks on one of the schemes. Our result shows that, contrary to what is claimed, ...

This paper presents a simple analytical method to optimize the efficiency of two types of electrostatic Vibration Energy Harvesters (VEH): the out-of-plane (OPGC) and in-plane (IPGC) gap-closing converters. The electrical and mechanical behaviours of the transducer are addressed simultaneously, while a voltage limitation on the transducer’s terminals is set to prevent any damage in the conditio...

This paper reports the application of different analytical tools to a basic continuous conditioning (CC) circuit for electrostatic vibration energy harvesters (e-VEHs). We address the fundamental issues of this conditioning circuit and give design advice that enhances the performance of e-VEHs employing this circuit. This circuit is widely used for harvesters with or without an electret layer. ...