The liver fulfills many vital functions for the body, among them bile formation and detoxification. Bile salts are organic anions, major constituents of at high concentrations cytotoxic. Detoxification exposes to harmful compounds. This function is therefore potentially damaging liver. Impaired may lead hepatic accumulation subsequently disease. Diagnosis diseases involves measurement so-called...

objective: to compare the effect of the physiologic and facilitated labor on the mother and neonate outcomes in the prim gravid women referring to arash hospital. materials and methods: this clinical trial study was performed on 200 low risk pregnant women referring to arash women's hospital in 2012-2013. mothers were divided into two groups of 100 patients using a simple random sampling method...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of the present review is to review our experience with near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) monitoring in shock resuscitation and predicting clinical outcomes. METHODS The management of critically ill patients with goal-oriented intensive care unit (ICU) resuscitation continues to evolve as our understanding of the appropriate physiologic targets improves. It is now reco...

BACKGROUND Asthma morbidity and mortality are higher in the United States for African-American (AA) children when compared to European-American (EA) children. STUDY OBJECTIVES To explore racial differences in physiologic factors associated with pediatric asthma severity. DESIGN Cross-sectional. METHODS We analyzed data from two groups of children in suburban Detroit, one of which contains...

OBJECTIVES The objective was to determine the effect of myofascial techniques on the modulation of physiologic and psychologic variables. DESIGN Forty-one (41) healthy male volunteers were randomly assigned to an experimental or control group. INTERVENTIONS The experimental group underwent 3 manual therapy modalities: suboccipital muscle technique, compression of fourth intracranial ventric...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to determine the effect of music therapy on patients suffering dental anxiety. In addition, a second objective was to determine the correlation between salivary cortisol and other physiologic parameters. METHODS 34 patients were randomly assigned to the control group and the experimental group. For each patient was measured for salivary cortisol, stimula...

BACKGROUND Acute pain after injury affects the comfort and function of the wounded soldier and the physiology of multiple body systems. In the civilian population, pain alters the function of the autonomic nervous system, causing increased heart rate and blood pressure. However, there are no data regarding the impact of combat-related pain on physiologic responses. This study is a retrospective...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to establish the relationship of plasma levels of brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) to physiologic parameters and cardiac morphologic characteristics in a population of young athletes. Our hypothesis is that physiologic and cardiac morphologic characteristics do not predict BNP levels in adolescent athletes. DESIGN Observational study. SETTING Outpatien...