[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of eight weeks of an endurance exercise training program on cardiac hypertrophy in mice. [Subjects] Male 129 SvJ/C57BL6 mice (n=12) were used. The exercised mice ran on a motor-driven treadmill five days per week for 40 minutes at a speed of 24 m/min for eight weeks. All mice were weighed once a week to monitor excessive increas...

BACKGROUND Nonattendance for scheduled appointments disturbs the effective management of pediatric pulmonary clinics. We hypothesized that the reasons for non-attendance and the necessary solutions might be different in pediatric pulmonary medicine than in other pediatric fields. We therefore investigated the factors associated with nonattendance this field in order to devise a corrective strat...

Sir, Sodium stibogluconate (SSG) is the standard drug used for the treatment of post kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) at a dose of 20 mg/kg/day (maximum 850 mg/day) for at About six patients completed the treatment as one of the patients developed leucopenia while the other was lost to follow up after 56 days. Five of them had an excellent response. The onset of the response was noted as e...