Cold hypersensitivity is a serious clinical problem, affecting a broad subset of patients and causing significant decreases in quality of life. The cold plantar assay allows the objective and inexpensive assessment of cold sensitivity in mice, and can quantify both analgesia and hypersensitivity. Mice are acclimated on a glass plate, and a compressed dry ice pellet is held against the glass sur...

Buprenorphine HCl is a common analgesic for laboratory mice undergoing surgical procedures. The documented duration of action of buprenorphine HCl is as short as 3 to 5 h in mice, potentially necessitating readministration for continued analgesia. A long-acting buprenorphine formulation would reduce handling-associated stress and provide uninterrupted analgesia. This study used the hot-plate a...

the effect of steel plate thickness on the repair effectiveness of rc beam is presented in this paper. a total of four beams were tested, one beam repaired by cfrp with a thickness of 1.2 mm and used as a control beam, and three beams repaired by a steel plate. steel plates with a thickness of 2 mm, 3 mm, and 4 mm were used in repairing the beams. the maximum load-carrying capacity, deflection ...

BACKGROUND Brucellosis is considered the most important zoonosis in Jordan with high prevalence among man and livestock. METHODS This study was carried out on high risk people in 1992 in order to assess the seroprevalence of brucellosis in northern Jordan. The sera of 1236 individuals (636 at high risk and 600 controls) were evaluated using the Rose Bengal plate agglutination test (RBPT) and ...