The concept of reserve is well-recognized in medicine. Various organs of the body, for example the kidney and the liver, manifest reserve such that significant damage can occur to the organ without impacting on clinical function. The very fact that an individual can donate one kidney and yet remain healthy attests to this fact. The glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is generally considered to be ...

Cognitive reserve (CR) has been proposed as a latent variable that can account for the frequent discrepancy between an individual's underlying level of brain pathology and their observed clinical outcome. A possible behavioral manifestation of CR is best strategy choice. Older adults have been shown to choose sub-optimal strategies for performing various tasks. The present study attempted to in...

objective: basal fsh levels reflect ovarian response and more formed embryos. we investigated a reliable fsh range to retrieve more oocytes and embryos. materials and methods: two hundred patients in art cycles underwent this study from apr 2007 to sep 2008. patients were divided in three groups based on value of fsh: group a≤8 iu/ml, 8 iu/ml < group b≤10 iu/ml, group c>10 iu/ml and results of ...

introduction: the purpose of this study was to compare estimation of radiation absorbed doses to patients following bone scans with technetium-99m-labeled methylene diphosphonate (mdp) with the estimates given in mirdose software. methods: in this study, each patient was injected 25 mci of 99m tc-mdp. whole-body images from thirty patients were acquired by gamma camera at 10, 60, 90, 180 minute...

Purpose. To assess the variability of histological parameters medial zone roach (Rutilus rutilus) liver. establish level effect transformed conditions existence on fish physiological status. determine prospect using monitoring data in ichthyological practice to morphofunctional state fish. Methodology. Primary materials were obtained different parts Southern Bug River, which differ their degree...