Infiltrating cells play an important role in both the development of and recovery from acute kidney injury (AKI). Macrophages and renal dendritic cells are of particular interest because they can exhibit distinctly different functional phenotypes, broadly characterized as proinflammatory (M1) or tissue reparative (M2). Resident renal macrophages and dendritic cells participate in recovery from ...

CO2 flooding, a promising technique of enhanced oil recovery, is widely used for its capability boosting and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In this study, the displacement performance supercritical tested in laboratory under immiscible flooding. The results show that: Supercritical improves by virtue low viscosity, high diffusivity, easy dissolution. With same pore volume (PV), flooding sig...

Psychologically and physically straining work conditions increase the risk of low back pain (LBP) development. According to recent recovery theories, leisure time recovery can counteract the negative influences of work stress on health. Similarly, a recent empirical work has indicated a moderating role of recovery on the link between stress and health issues. In this paper, a theoretical model ...

Introduction Conventional and unconventional hydrocarbons are likely to remain the main component of the energy mix needed to meet the growing global energy demand in the next 50 years. The worldwide production of crude oil could drop by nearly 40 million B/D by 2020 from existing projects, and an additional 25 million B/D of oil will need to be produced for the supply to keep pace with consump...

Glial-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) and nerve growth factor (NGF) have both been shown to enhance peripheral nerve regeneration following injury and target different neuronal populations. The delivery of either growth factor at the site of injury may, therefore, result in quantitative differences in motor nerve regeneration and functional recovery. In this study we evaluated the effect of ...

Chlorpromazine-induced agranulocytosis is an uncommon disorder associated with a high frequency of fatality. We describe two patients with chlorpromazine-induced granulocytosis in whom granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) administration enhanced the speed of neutrophil recovery. No toxicity was noted with G-CSF and both patients made a successful recovery. We propose there is a role fo...

introduction: the objective of the study was to develop an instrument to measure patient education content. materials and methods: first of all, literature searches were undertaken to determine current national and international patient education questionnaires. then a forty five item questionnaire was developed. questionnaires were filled by 399 patients in surgery wards of kerman medical hosp...

The data replication problem (DRP) describes the task of distributing copies of data records (that is, database fragments) among a set of servers in a distributed database system. For the application of flexible query answering, several fragments can be overlapping (in terms of tuples in a database table). In this paper, we provide a formulation of the DRP for horizontal fragmentations with ove...

Results of a Monte Carlo study of exploratory factor analysis demonstrate that in studies characterized by low sample sizes the population factor structure can be adequately recovered if communalities are high, model error is low, and few factors are retained. These are conditions likely to be encountered in behavior genetics research involving mean scores obtained from sets of inbred strains. ...