Future therapies for growth hormone deficiency are expected to include long-acting formulations that may encourage increased use of and adherence to these products.

purpose : to report a rare case of isolated orbital mucocele after trauma case report : a 45-year-old man presented with swelling in the left orbital region. the only significant event in his medical history was trauma which occurred 25 years previously during the iran-iraq war. computed tomography revealed a left medial intraorbital cystic mass lesion. the cystic mass was completely removed th...

carnitine is a vital biologic substance for transporting fatty acids into myocytes. it also facilitates fatty acids β-oxidation for energy production. in this study, effects of l-carnitine (l-car) on apoptosis in the ischemic isolated rat heart were investigated. male sprague-dawley rats were divided into four groups and anesthetized by sodium pentobarbital. the heart was removed and mounted on...

We studied the effect of ejection on end-systolic pressure in isolated heart preparations. Ejecting beats were compared with isovolumic beats having the same volume as at end systole. While holding end-systolic volume constant, various stroke volumes, including negative stroke volumes (volume injected during systole), were imposed using a predetermined volume command. After switching contractio...

A selective reduction of a broad variety of ketones is described. The method is based on the combination of a Ni-Al alloy and high hydrostatic pressure (HHP, 2.8 kbar) in an aqueous medium. The reaction of the Ni-Al alloy with water provides in situ hydrogen generation and the high pressure ensures that the H(2) formed remains in the solution, thus the C=O reduction readily occurs. The applicat...

This article examined whether semantic indeterminacy plays a role in comprehension of complex structures such as object relative clauses. Study 1 used a gated sentence completion task to assess which alternative interpretations are dominant as the relative clause unfolds; Study 2 compared reading times in object relative clauses containing different animacy configurations to unambiguous passive...

I n the United States, there are two broad indexes of consumer prices: the consumer price index, or CPI, and the chain price index for personal consumption expenditures, or PCEPI. Because the indexes are similar in many respects, the inflation rates measured with them often move in parallel. There are, however, some important differences, which, at times, can lead to large gaps between CPI and ...

MTSAC Full Member of the Argentine Society of Cardiology 1 Cardiology Division, Hospital Ignacio Pirovano. CABA. 2 Climacteric Section, Gynecology Division, Hospital Ignacio Pirovano. CABA. 3 Endocrinology Section, Central Laboratory. Hospital Ignacio Pirovano. CABA. † Deceased horAcio m. zylbersztejn , silviA g. kusznier, grAcielA b olivAres, glAdys A oviedo † , luciAnA g kAntereWicz , roberto...