Although the epileptogenic properties of estrogens have been widely demonstrated in several models and species, the mechanism(s) by which estrogens can acutely change seizure parameters including after discharge and seizure duration remain remains to be determined. In the present study, we examined the role of NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate), non-NMDA and estrogenic receptors in estradiol benzoate ...

Vesicants are potent blistering agents. The prototype vesicant is sulphur mustard gas, first used in World War I, which still has no effective antidote. We used a mustard gas surrogate 2-chloroethyl ethyl sulphide (CEES) to study the ability of resveratrol (RES) and pterostilbene (PTS), two well-established stilbene antioxidants, ebselen (EB-1), an organoselenium compound, and three EB-1 analog...

Three experiments were conducted with ovariectomized (OVX) cows and heifers to investigate potential neuroendocrine mechanisms controlling estrous behavior. In Exp. 1, 10 OVX cows were treated with either 125 micrograms estradiol benzoate and 10 cc saline (125 micrograms EB + SAL), 125 micrograms EB and 500 micrograms gonadotropin releasing hormone (125 micrograms EB + GnRH), 250 micrograms EB ...

This study examined the use of PGF(2α) and estradiol benzoate (EB) either with or without GnRH to synchronize estrus in dairy cows for timed artificial insemination (TAI) under field conditions. First, Holstein dairy cows with a corpus luteum (CL) received 500 μg cloprostenol and were then randomly allocated to three groups: no further treatment (control, n=236); treatment with 1 mg EB 56 h aft...

abstract this study was conducted to evaluate the resistance of 70 genotypes of barley to powdery mildew. after preparing the samples contaminated with powdery mildew, reproduction of the spores of the fungus was conducted on susceptible cultivar afzal. the experiment was conducted with randomized block design in pot in greenhouse. seedlings were inoculated with the spores fungus in two-leaf st...

The motivation of this paper is to bring into notice the establishment two topologies: enhanced boost-quasi Z source inverter (EB-QZSI) and boost QZSI with an active switched network (EB/ASN-QZSI) which have poor performance than Extended capacitor quasi (ESC-qSBI). However, ESC-qSBI has been developed before EB-QZSI EB/ASN-QZSI. utilizes lesser number inductors (EB/ASN-QZSI). In presence paras...

Ethidium bromide (EB) was more efficient than ethyl violet or rifampin as a curing agent for the penicillinase plasmids of Staphylococcus aureus strains. The effects of EB on growth and on the loss of the penicillinase plasmid of PS 81 were studied in detail. The growth rates of PS 81 and an EB-cured derivative were identical in broth, but the cured derivative had a shorter lag in the presence ...