RESULTSdImprovement in mean daily blood glucose (BG) after the first day of therapy was similar between basal bolus and basal plus groups (P = 0.16), and both regimens resulted in a lower mean daily BG than did SSI (P = 0.04). In addition, treatment with basal bolus and basal plus regimens resulted in less treatment failure (defined as.2 consecutive BG.240 mg/dL or a mean daily BG .240 mg/dL) t...

To cite: Percy L, Mansour D. J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2013;39:237–240. BACKGROUND The combined oral contractive pill (COC) has been available for over 50 years but are we providing women with the regimens they want? As far back as 1977, Louden et al. reported the use of 84 active pills with a 7-day break to free women from monthly periods, yet menstrual manipulation is underused today. So...

The authors examined how time orientation and morningness–eveningness relate to 2 forms of procrastination: indecision and avoidant forms. Participants were 509 adults (M age = 49.78 years, SD = 6.14) who completed measures of time orientation, morningness–eveningness, decisional procrastination (i.e., indecision), and avoidant procrastination. Results showed that morningness was negatively rel...

EARLY FLOWERING 3 (ELF3) plays key roles in the control of circadian rhythms, photoperiodic flowering, hypocotyls length and response to light in Arabidopsis. ELF3, however, encodes a protein without any motifs or domains of known function. Biochemical function of ELF3 has been largely unknown. Here we show the first demonstration of diversity of numbers of polyglutamines in the ELF3 among 60 A...

A sensitive and simple liquid chromatography/electrospray mass spectrometry (LC-ESI-MS) method for determination of cilostazol in rat plasma using one-step protein precipitation was developed. After addition of midazolam as internal standard (IS), protein precipitation by acetonitrile was used as sample preparation. Chromatographic separation was achieved on an SB-C18 (2.1 × 50 mm, 5.0 μm) colu...

240 Mold Sensitization in Chronic Rhinosinusitis Patients Radoslaw Gawlik, MD, PhD, and Eugeniusz Czecior, MD, PhD. Internal Medicine, Allergy and Clin Immunology, Silesian University of Medicine, Katowice, Poland; Silesian University of Medicine, Zabrze, Poland. Background: It is estimated that about 10% of the population have IgE antibodies to common inhalant molds. Exposure to fungal allerge...

Background: Depression is a prevalent mood condition that has an impact on daily functioning. Globally, depression affects 264 million people. The current pharmacotherapy of lot shortcomings. Therefore, there need to explore newer therapy alleviate the symptoms depression. Metformin was found possess antioxidant potential and hypothesized decrease levels branched-chain amino-acids essential for...

A total of 80 day old British United Turkeys were subjected to four dietary treatments at varying levels of niacin + yeast. Each treatment had 20 birds of 4 replicates with 5 birds in each replicate. Niacin + yeast (240 ppm niacin + 1.5g/kg yeast and 200 ppm niacin + 1.5 g/kg yeast, at the starter, grower, and finisher phase) showed significant effect on body weight gain, serum Low Density Lipo...