introduction: limited data are available on the effectiveness of antidepressants in the treatment of functional gastrointestinal disorders in children. we evaluated the effectiveness of citalopram in the treatment of childhood functional abdominal pain (fap).   material and methods: children with fap (n=115, aged 6-18 years) received either citalopram 20 mg/day or placebo for 4 weeks. treatment...

Ketotifen is a benzocycloheptathiophene with a range of pharmacological activities. The present study was carried out to evaluate the action of ketotifen on isolated rat bladder contractions induced by KCI and acetylcholine, compared with the effects of other drugs. Ketotifen (5 µM) reduced the response to acetylcholine on rat isolated bladder without altering the maximum response and shift...

objective: despite the discovery of new antipsychotic drugs in recent years, a number of schizophrenic patients show no response to such drugs and are considered treatment-resistant. in such cases, clozapine and occasionally ect or a combination of drugs are used, though they are not very effective. in recent years, the combination of clozapine and ect for treatment-resistant schizophrenic pati...

treatment of bone metastases comprises over 10% of the workload of a radiation-oncology center. bone metastases produce severe pain and immobility, necessitate narcotic use, and reduce the quality of life. a good palliative treatment must be complete, free from side effects and fast; thus we decided to evaluate strontium-89 (89sr) effectivity for palliation of breast and prostate cancer bone me...

　 reducing production and death. The disease in endemic areas would be mild or subclinical in indigenous cattle and clinically acute in exotics. OBJECTIVES: This study was conducted to evaluate the resistance of indigenous cattle in comparison with Holstein and crossbred cattle against Theileria annulata through assessment of clinical signs and response to treatment. METHODS: For this purpose...