Background: Pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines and polymorphisms of their genes have been described to be involved in the pathogenesis of recurrent miscarriage (RM). Objective: To investigate the association between RM and five polymorphisms of cytokine genes, interleukin 10 (IL-10), (-592 A/C, -819 C/T, -1082 A/G), IL-6 (-174 C/G) and IL-17 (-197 G/A) in Iranian women. Method: Po...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of repetitions to fatigue (RTF) using absolute and relative muscle-endurance performances to estimate 1-repetition-maximum (1-RM) bench-press performance in high school male athletes. METHODS Members of high school athletic teams (n = 118, age = 16.5 +/- 1.1 y, weight = 82.7 +/- 18.7 kg) were tested for 1-RM bench press and R...

BACKGROUND The aim of the present study was to evaluate the acute effects of resistance exercise (RE) leading to failure and RE that was not to failure on 24 h blood pressure (BP) and heart rate variability (HRV) in sedentary normotensive adult women. METHODS Ten women (33.2 ± 5.8 years; 159.3 ± 9.4 cm; 58.0 ±6.4 kg; body fat 28.4 ± 2.8%) randomly underwent three experimental sessions: contro...

We calculate Faraday rotation in global axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic simulations of geometrically thick accretion flows. These calculations are motivated by the measured rotation measure (RM) of ≈ −6 × 10 rad m from Sgr A* in the Galactic center, which appears to have been stable over the past ≈ 7 years. In our numerical simulations, the quasi-steady state structure of the accretion flow, a...