background: currently healthy heart word considered to be the objective of community health applications in many countries of the world because cardiovascular diseases are the most important factor in mortality of humans, worldwide. coronary artery bypass graft surgery is one of the most common surgery procedures for these patients. the purpose of this study is to assess the impact of therapeut...

Visual discrimination requires sensory processing followed by a perceptual decision. Despite a growing understanding of visual areas in this behavior, it is unclear what role top-down signals from prefrontal cortex play, in particular as a function of perceptual difficulty. To address this gap, we investigated how neurons in dorso-lateral frontal cortex (dl-FC) of freely-moving ferrets encode t...

Background: The Vanilloid subfamily of transient receptor potential (TRPV) ion channels has been widely implicated in detecting osmotic and mechanical stress. In the current study we examine the functional expression of TRPV4 channels in cell volume regulation in cells of the human collecting duct. Methods: Western blot analysis, siRNA knock-down and microfluorimetry were used to assess the exp...

Background: Infants are exposed to different painful procedures during hospitalization in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Due to the harmful effects of pain on infants, NICUs require methods by the aid of which the pain in infants can be controlled. Yakson touch and oral glucose are among non-pharmacological methods for pain relief in infants. In this regard, the present study was cond...

miR-499a-5p has been reported to regulate the progression of various tumours. However, role in breast cancer is unclear. The purpose this study was investigate and mechanism cancer. growth effect on cells investigated by CCK-8 assay, wound healing assay Transwell invasion assay. luciferase activity used verify downstream targets miR-499a-5p. levels GSH, MDA ROS were detected kits. Quantitative ...

Drop-jumps are controlled by predictive and reactive motor strategies which differ with respect to the utilization of sensory feedback. With reaction, sensory feedback is integrated while performing the task. With prediction, sensory information may be used prior to movement onset. Certainty about upcoming events is important for prediction. The present study aimed at investigating how uncertai...

QUESTION Does warm-up or cool-down (also called warm-down) reduce delayed-onset muscle soreness? DESIGN Randomised controlled trial of factorial design with concealed allocation and intention-to-treat analysis. PARTICIPANTS Fifty-two healthy adults (23 men and 29 women aged 17 to 40 years). INTERVENTION Four equally-sized groups received either warm-up and cool-down, warm-up only, cool-do...

Frozen section and touch imprint cytology are important diagnostic procedures for surgeons during operation and must be accurate if the patient is to receive maximum benefit. To assess the accuracy of intraoperative pathologic consultation including frozen section and touch imprint cytology during a five year period (1995- 2000), a retrospective survey of 1000 consecutive cases of frozen s...

The effect of bonding parameters on the reliability of thick Al wire bond is investigated. Samples were prepared with 25 different designs with 5 different bonding parameters such as time, ultrasonic power, beginforce, end-force and touch-down steps (pre-compression) with 5 levels. The bond signals of ultrasonic generator were collected during bonding in order to obtain prior quality informatio...