background and purpose: internal evaluation has been a growing trend as the first step improvement in higher education specially in medical universities of iran. however, the results of this time consuming process of internal evaluation seems to be underused. we provide a description of anesthesiology department of shaheed beheshti university of medical sciences where the results were used to i...

The objective of this study was to evaluate several drug combinations for intraperitoneal anaesthesia in laboratory rats. Following dose determination of anaesthetics in a pilot study, 45 healthy adult male rats were randomly assigned in 9 treatment groups and received propofol (alone or in combination with xylazine, midazolam, or ketamine) or ketamine (in combination with xylazine, midazolam, ...

resection is the most common treatment choice for sigmoid volvulus, a common complication in our region. a new minimally invasive technique for sigmoid resection with local anesthesia was done in this study. this method is invented to avoid general on regional anesthesia in high-risk patients. nineteen patients were evaluated and then 14 were enrolled in this study. sigmoidectomy with a left lo...

The decision to use ASIC technology over a fullor semi-custom approach in the design of a computer system is influenced by many factors, and has a significant impact on the design methodology as well as on the completion schedule of the product. The Cray Research J90” line of 100-MHz supercomputer systems is an example of a system whose performance, cost, and schedule needs drove the designers ...

terol is degraded into bile acids, and the rate-limiting Ajay Chawla, Enrique Saez, and Ronald M. Evans* Howard Hughes Medical Institute step for the neutral bile biosynthesis pathway is cataThe Salk Institute for Biological Sciences lyzed by the cytochrome P450 cholesterol 7a-hydroxy10010 N. Torrey Pines Road lase or CYP7A1 (Russell and Setchell, 1992). Regulation La Jolla, California 92037 of...