Salicylic acid (SA) plays an important role in the regulation of plant ripening and responses to abiotic stresses. In this study, the protective effect of SA on cold stress-caused oxidative damage in grape (Vitis vinifera L.) bunches was investigated during cold storage.  Grape bunches treated with 2 mM SA and  stored at 0°C with 85-90% RH for 30 days. Samples were selected from each treatment ...

Oral intake of Lactobacillus pentosus strain b240 (b240) has been shown to enhance the secretion of salivary secretory IgA in elderly adults. However, its clinical benefits remain to be determined. We tested the hypothesis that b240 exerts a protective effect against the common cold in elderly adults. The design of the present study was a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial (RCT)...

Intestinal intussusception can be regarded today as a classical problem, although largely solved. All the experts were concerned to know this disorder, so that they can establish an early diagnosis and start an appropriate treatment.Intussusception can be seen in all ages, but more often in small children and especially infants between 4-10 months.(1,2) Infants are, usually, eutrofical. Intussu...

in order to investigate the effects of cold stress on antioxidant enzymes and physiological characteristics in chickpea, two separate experiments were conducted at germination and seedling stages. each experiment with six temperature levels (t1(control)=15c°, t2=5c°, t3=0c°, t4=-5c°, t5=-10c° and t6=-15c°) and three varieties (v1=pirouz v2=ilc482 v3=bivaniej) was carried out in a randomized com...

using nigella sativa l. (black cumin), in traditional medicine, dates back to tutankhamen, the pharaoh of egypt. there are aboundant historical and religious evidence implying the importance of these curative seeds. traditionally, they have been used for various therapeutic purposes. zokam and nazleh (zan) are two nasal diseases used to be treated by these medicinal seeds. traditional persian m...

Cold treatment periods, and associated levels of quarantine security, that maximize net US welfare under USDA’s current medfly detection and control program are examined using a deterministic bioeconomic optimization model. As anticipated, the efficient level of quarantine security is shown to increase with indices of medfly pressure (initial infestation rates) in areas in which the medfly is k...

The effect of short- and long-term cold treatment on the abscisic acid (ABA) and cytokinin (CK) metabolism, and their main biosynthesis- and signaling-related genes were investigated in freezing-sensitive and freezing-tolerant wheat genotypes. Varieties Cheyenne and Chinese Spring substituted with the 5A Cheyenne chromosome, which represented freezing-tolerant genotypes, were compared with the ...

It seems remarkable that the medical profession of this country should be charged with inertia, because the cold-bath treatment which has been in vogue for some thirty years should not be universally adopted. It is true, as Dr. Hare remarks, that the difficulties in the systematic adoption of the method have been greatly exaggerated ; the plan of procedure which he describes (page 18) makes the...

Dr. Hark need make no apology to the profession for presenting them in this handsome volume with the results of his long experience in the cold-bath treatment of typhoid fever, with which his name, as well as that of Brand, are always associated. In the English language there existed no single work dealing with this method, and practitioners anxious to try it have had to search periodical liter...

Ciguatera, the most common form of nonbacterial ichthyosarcotoxism, is caused by consumption of fish that have bioaccumulated the polyether sodium channel activator ciguatoxin. The neurological symptoms of ciguatera include distressing, often persistent sensory disturbances such as paraesthesias and the pathognomonic symptom of cold allodynia. We show that intracutaneous administration of cigua...