BACKGROUND The predictive value of an individual's attitude towards painful situations and the status of his immune system for postoperative analgesic requirements are not well understood. These may help the clinician to anticipate individual patient's needs. METHODS Sixty patients, who underwent a laparoscopic cholecystectomy under standardised general anaesthesia, were included. The total a...

Title of Dissertation: OBSERVED SOCIAL PROBLEM SOLVING AND FRIENDSHIP QUALITY IN CHILREN WITH A TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY Sara Heverly-Fitt, Doctor of Philosophy, 2016 Dissertation directed by: Dr. Kenneth Rubin, Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology Children who have experienced a traumatic brain injury (TBI) are at risk for a variety of maladaptive cognitive, behavioral an...

objective(s): comparative in vivo studies were carried out to determine the adsorption characteristics of amitriptyline (amt) on activated charcoal (ac) and sodium polystyrene sulfonate (sps). ac has been long used as gastric decontamination agent for tricyclic antidepressants and sps has showed to be highly effective on in-vitro drugs adsorption. materials and methods: sprague-dawley male rats...

OBJECTIVE Sticky platelet syndrome (SPS) is a common autosomal dominant inherited platelet disorder. SPS is characterized by platelet hyperreactivity and is associated with arterial and venous thrombosis. The aim of this study was to determine the role of SPS in patients with uninduced venous thrombosis. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study included 28 patients (15 male and 13 female) with uninduce...

Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating anxiety disorder resulting from traumatic stress exposure. Females are more likely to develop PTSD than males, but neurobiological mechanisms underlying female susceptibility are lacking. This can be addressed by using nonhuman animal models. Single prolonged stress (SPS), a nonhuman animal model of PTSD, results in cued fear extinction re...

Specific Peptides (SPs) have been shown [22] to specify the functions of 93% of the enzymes on which they occur. In this work we will focus on the biological importance and possible roles of SPs in the realisation of enzymatic functions. SPs are shown to provide correct functional classification in problems where conventional methods, based on sequence or structure similarity, fail. These cases...

Semantic processing system (SPS) is a system that performs phrase search of web content. SPS takes a user query in natural language, converts it to a keyword query, expands the keyword query with synonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms, and meronyms, and presents the keyword query to a search engine. SPS then sifts through the search engine result pages extracting grammatical and semantic information fro...

The aim of this study was to determine whether administration of the prodrugs bisacodyl (Bisa) and sodium picosulfate (SPS) leads to excretion of their common active metabolite, bis-(p-hydroxyphenyl)-pyridyl-2-methane (BHPM), in breast milk. Two groups of 8 healthy lactating women who had stopped breast feeding received multiple doses of Bisa or SPS. Plasma, urine, and breast milk were collecte...

Sodium polyanetholsulfonate (SPS) at 7.8 Ag/ml completely abolished complement-mediated hemolysis of 1:10 diluted fresh guinea pig and human serum; at least twice as much SPS was required to reduce complement activity in 1: 2 diluted human serum. The coagulation of 90 and 20% human blood was inhibited by 250 and 125 Ag of SPS per ml, respectively. When added to fresh human serum, SPS precipitat...