The effect of dose and volume of a perimuscular injection of Bothrops jararacussu venom on myonecrosis of skeletal muscle was studied in mice. An increase of the venom dose (0.25 to 2.0 micro g/g) at a given volume (50 micro l) resulted in an increase in plasma creatine kinase (CK) levels 2 h after injection. Plasma CK activity increased from the basal level of 129.27 +/- 11.83 (N = 20) to 2392...

The general progression of the deterioration of parchment collagen from a fibrous to a gelatine-like state was a major subject of study in the European joint project ‘Methods in the Micro-Analysis of Parchment’. The analytical results from this project strongly indicate that a correlation between physical properties at macroscopic and microscopic levels can be made. The new European joint proje...

Figure 1 [1] There are two levels of CT imaging small animals – miniand micro-CT. Mini-CT has a voxel resolution that is equivalent to whole body CT of the adult human. Thus, a 30 cm diameter human chest is represented with up to 500 pixels clinically, so a 2 cm mouse chest would be represented by 500, 40, μm pixels. Higher resolution scans at the microscopic level are truly micro-CT scans. I w...

The Human Body Is Electricity Based. Electricity made inside the body cells, using low levels of electric currents at one-millionth of an Ampere –called a micro-current– provides power for the body. Injured cells resist the body's natural micro-current. This causes the natural micro-current to take the path of least resistance around the area of injury rather than through it. This prevents the ...

background: radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer after smoking. in canada, the health authorities have no access to comprehensive profile of the communities built over uranium-rich micro-geological settings. the present indoor radon monitoring guideline is unable to provide an accurate identification of health hazards due to discounting several parameters of housing characteristics....

abstract one way of the increasing saline tolerance in citrus plants is grafting of sensitive commercial cultivars on to tolerant rootstocks. sweet lime (citrus limetta) is one of the most sensitive species to salinity of soil and water, and under such conditions, drastic reduction of both vegetative and yield occured. this reaserch was conducted in completely randomaized design with factorial ...

OBJECTIVE We investigated the relationship between the serum macrophage chemokine ligand 16 (CXCL16) levels and the vulnerable carotid plaque in patients with ischemic stroke. PATIENTS AND METHODS We successively selected 118 cases of patients with an initial diagnosis of acute ischemic stroke (time of onset < 72 h), recorded risk factors, including gender, age, family history, smoking, body ...

In this article we report on the effectiveness of a community-based, culture-specific, controlled trial of intensive peer education aimed at preventing lead burden in children 0-36 months of age within a neighborhood with high risk for lead exposure. Mothers (n = 594) were randomly assigned to control or intervention groups. Offspring blood lead levels were assessed every 4 months. All particip...

&nbsp; To assess the hygienic conditions of market rainbow trout (Oncorhynchusmykiss ), the residuals of three antibiotics consisting of oxytetracycline (OTC), enrofloxacin (EN) and erythromycin (ET) were measured in the muscles of freshly caught fish obtained from 17 trout farming in Charmahal-va-Bakhteyari (CVB) province using high performance liquid chromatography. Totally 266 fish samples w...