Lifestyle and heredity are two different terms but yet closely related components. An evaluation for the time invested in sleep locomotion behaviors per second Wistar rats animal model was carried out. A total of six within same cage were marked by color a room supported day’s light (12h lighting/12h darkness). These animals filmed 18 h daily ten days (9h lighting, 9h darkness) to estimate budg...

INTRODUCTION Status epilepticus (SE) is frequently observed in epileptic patients. We reviewed a series of video-EEG documented SE to define the characteristics of SE in this population. MATERIALS AND METHODS Retrospective evaluation of 50 epileptic patients with SE, revision of the electro-clinical data and therapies, and definition of the semeiological subtypes, aetiology, outcome and relat...

OBJECTIVE The time to positivity (TTP) of blood cultures in patients with bloodstream infections (BSIs) has been considered to be a possible prognostic tool for some bacterial species. However, notable differences have been found between sampling designs and statistical methods in published studies to date, which makes it difficult to compare results or to derive reliable conclusions. Our objec...

Plasma levels of plasminogen activator inhibitor type-1 (PAI-1), beta-thromboglobulin (beta TG), and fibrinopeptide A (FPA) were followed over 24 hours in 30 patients treated with alteplase for acute myocardial infarction. Samples were taken at baseline (T Oh), after 90 minutes (under alteplase, no heparin, T 1.5h), after 120 minutes (under alteplase and heparin, T 2h), 30 minutes after thrombo...

The present study determined the phenolic and flavonoid contents in Amomum chinense C. leaf extracts obtained using four extracting solvents(distilled water, 80% methanol, 80% ethanol and 80% acetone)with various extraction times (6h, 12h and 24h) at 37oC. All extraction conditions significantly (p <0.05) affected the phenolic contents and antioxidant activity of the leaf extracts. The optimal ...

Background—In view of growing evidence of an important endothelial paracrine regulation of cardiac function, the present study investigated the role of cardiac endothelium-derived endothelin-1 (ET-1), prostaglandins, and nitric oxide (NO) during endotoxin-induced cardiomyopathy in rabbits. Methods and Results—Immunohistochemical studies showed a marked transient coinduction of the inducible iso...

BACKGROUND In view of growing evidence of an important endothelial paracrine regulation of cardiac function, the present study investigated the role of cardiac endothelium-derived endothelin-1 (ET-1), prostaglandins, and nitric oxide (NO) during endotoxin-induced cardiomyopathy in rabbits. METHODS AND RESULTS Immunohistochemical studies showed a marked transient coinduction of the inducible i...