objective(s):drug delivery through the skin can transfer therapeutic levels of drugs for pharmacological effects. analgesics such as nsaids have gastrointestinal side effects and topical dosage forms of these drugs are mainly preferred, especially for local pains. meloxicam is one of nsaids with no topical form in the market. in this research, we attempted to quantify the skin permeation of a m...

background : underweight as a public health problem in young women is associated with nutritional deficiencies, menstrual irregularity, eating disorders, reduced fertility, etc. since resting metabolic rate (rmr) is a necessary compo-nent in the development of nutrition support therapy, therefore we determined the accuracy of commonly used pre-dictive equations against rmr measured by indirect ...

Heat production measurements can be performed in two ways: direct and indirect calorimetry. Direct calorimetry is the measurement of heat loss, which under normal steady-state conditions equals the heat production (H). Indirect calorimetry is the calculation of heat production based on parameters related to the heat production, such as respiratory gas exchange (O2 and CO2) and nitrogen excretio...