PURPOSE To determine the effect of penetrating ocular injury on the induction of anterior chamber-associated immune deviation (ACAID). METHODS An injection of 5 mul ovalbumin (OVA, 20 mg/ml) into the anterior chamber (AC) of female BALB/c mice was performed to induce ACAID. A penetrating ocular injury was induced via the limbus on OVA-inoculated eyes at 24 h, 48 h, 72 h, and 120 h following A...

Matrix converter is a single-stage converter which directly connects a three-phase voltage source to a three-phase load without dc-link components. Therefore, any harmonic distortion and imbalance in input voltage directly reflect to the output of the converter. Recently, many researchers have made an effort to cope with this problem. In this paper, under distorted input voltage conditions, beh...

Objective(s): Antrodia cinnamomea (AC) is found with anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory biological activities. In this study, we investigated the anti-hepatitis effect of the emulsified AC extract from RO water or supercritical fluid CO2 with ethanol co-solvent extract methods of AC preparations. Materials and Methods: Five groups of eight to ten weeks male rats with a count of ten for each...

Background Recent researches reveal that manual puncturing of the trophectoderm of blastocyst before vitrification, increase the quality of embryo. However, in any of these studies, the importance of blastocoelic fluid and its impact on the formation of three cell lines is not mentioned. Therefore, in the present study, the effect of blastocoelic fluid reduction before vitrification on survival...

Background and Aim: Dental caries is the most common infectious, non-communicable, chronic disease worldwide. Obesity and overweight are major public health problems. Both dental caries and obesity have multi-factorial etiology. The aim of the present study was to determine the possible correlation between the body mass index (BMI), lipid profile and dental caries in two groups of high-school s...

BACKGROUND Treatment of acute complete acromioclavicular (AC) dislocation is still controversial. Both non-surgical and surgical methods have been reported with similar results. In addition, once surgical treatment is chosen, a satisfactory surgical technique has not been developed yet. METHODS Sixty consecutive patients who sustained 60 acute complete AC dislocations were treated using corac...

Electron capture dissociation (ECD) was studied with doubly charged dipeptide ions that were tagged with fixed-charge tris-(2,4,6-trimethoxyphenyl)phosphonium-methylenecarboxamido (TMPP-ac) groups. Dipeptides GK, KG, AK, KA, and GR were each selectively tagged with one TMPP-ac group at the N-terminal amino group while the other charge was introduced by protonation at the lysine or arginine side...

The precise factors involved in the transition of the relaxed pregnant uterus to the contractile state at the onset of parturition remain unclear, but it is accepted that cAMP-generating pathways contribute to uterine relaxation. We have previously reported an increased expression of the adenylyl cyclase (AC)-stimulating protein Galphas in human myometrium during gestation, with a corresponding...

INTRODUCTION We compared two surgical methods of augmentation cystoplasty (AC), before and after renal transplantation, and the outcomes of both methods with transplant patients with normal bladder function. MATERIALS AND METHODS 1520 kidney transplantations were performed at Shahid Labbafinejad Center between March 1988 and February 2002 of which 36 cases was accompanied with AC. In 20 patie...

OBJECTIVE To assess cut-off value of creatinine and glomerular filtration rate for augmentation cystoplasty (AC) in paediatric age-group. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data of all paediatric-patients (<18 years) with small capacity bladder, in whom AC was advised between 2005-2015 were reviewed. All patients were divided in two-groups, AC-group and control-group (without AC). Creatinine and e-GFR wer...