conclusions the high prevalence of fungaemia and mortality could be attributed to many patients on chronic immunosuppressive therapy. nonetheless, cpfa albeit expensive, does add to our armamentarium of extracorporeal treatment for severe sepsis. regional citrate anticoagulation with cpfa may overcome problems with filter clotting. objectives the main objective was to review our centers' e...

conventional and nanostructured ysz coatings were deposited on the in-738 ni super alloy by the atmospheric plasma spray technique. the oxidation was measured at 1100°c in an atmospheric electrical furnace. according to the experimental results the nanostructured coatings showed a better oxidation resistance than the conventional ones. the improved oxidation resistance of the nanocoating could ...

objective: visfatin, is a novel adipokine, and an adipose tissue-derived hormone shown to correlate with visceral fat mass in patients with obesity. it is not well known whether endurance training – induced change in adipose tissue and blood lipids decreases plasma visfatin or not; thus, the purpose of this study was to examine the effect of 12 weeks endurance training on plasma visfatin in men...

nanosized al2o3 powder is synthesized by thermal metal organic chemical vapor deposition (mocvd)combined withplasma. the effects of reaction temperature, pressure, al(ch3)3 (tma) concentration and reactant gases (co2 and o2) on the characteristics of the synthesized al2o3 powders are investigated. the experimental results demonstrate that very fineal2o3 powders with mean particle size of about ...

in this study, a high-performance liquid chromatographic method (hplc) and uv spectrophotometric method were developed, validated and applied for the determination of theophylline in biological fluids. liquid- liquid extraction is performed for isolation of the drug and elimination of plasma and saliva interferences. urine samples were applied without any extraction. the chromatographic separat...

abstract: plasma cellmyeloma constitutes about 10% of all  hematologicmalignancies. metastatic cutaneous lesions without underlying bony involvement are rare and associated with advanced disease, poor prognosis and high tumor burden. igg is the most common subtype and igd is believed to have a more aggressive course.######

osteoporosis is a silent epidemy of today's world, and is also a prevalent problem of health in iran. the role of nutrients such as ascorbic acid, a key antioxidant vitamin, in this disease has recently attracted researchers' attention. in this study, we studied the relation between plasma ascorbic acid concentration and bone mineral density (bmd) in women referring to jami clinic, te...

the present paper explores the impact of an on-board hydrogen harvesting system (fuel reformer) on the overall efficiency of a fuel-cell powered vehicle. various methods of hydrogen production for automotive applications have been discussed first. as the hydrogen production is one of the major challenges for application of proton exchange membrane (pem) fuel cells, especially in vehicular indus...

abstract in this work, the dry reforming of methane was studied using a corona and glow discharge plasma microreactors. a chemical kinetic model was developed to understand the reaction better. the modelization allowed prediction of the reactants conversion according to the energy transfer to the gas (p×τ). the β value is trait of the energy cost, whatever this value was leeser indicated better...

a rapid, sensitive and reproducible hplc method using amperometric detector was developed and validated for the analysis of clarithromycin in human plasma. the separation was achieved on a monolithic silica column (mz- c8 125×4.0 mm) using acetonitrile- methanol-potassium dihydrogen phosphate buffer (40:6:54,v/v), with ph of 7.5, as the mobile phase at a flow rate of 1.5 ml/min. the assay enabl...