objective: scientificstudies have shown that vitis vinifera (v. vinifera) contains flavonoids and stillbenoids. flavonoids are well known to possess anxiolytic activities. in view of the idea that flavonoids present in v. vinifera could be useful in anxiety, we evaluated anxiolytic-like activity of v. vinifera juice (vvj). materials and methods: light/dark box and the open field test were used ...

in this paper, full scale load test of a horizontally curved steel box-girder bridge is carried out in order to detect structural defects, which reportedly result in unwanted vibrations in nearby buildings. the bridge is tested under the passage of six heavy vehicles at different speeds, so as to determine its static and dynamic responses. a total number of one hundred and two (102) sensors are...

some animal models have been used to study alzheimer's disease (ad). ad is an irreversible progressive neurodegenerative disease and the most common cause of dementia. animal studies have shown that there is a relation between decrease in cholinergic functions in the nucleus basalis of meynert (nbm) and loss of learning capability and memory. the aim of this study was to investigate the ef...