درمیان داستان های کوتاه صادق هدایت  سه قطره خون ( از مجموعه ای به همین عنوان )   یکی از پیچیده ترین و همگون ترین نوشته های وی  از حیث قالب ومحتوا در مقایسه با بوف کور است ؛ به گونه ای که آن یک را می توان « طرح اولیه » ی این یک به حساب آورد. من راوی ِ سه قطره خون،  همچون من راوی ِ بوف کور ، هیچ سنخیتی میان خود وآدم ها و محیط اطرافش نمی بیند ؛ از این  رو نیازی...

A coronary artery-left ventricular fistula (CAF) is an extremely rare anatomical abnormality in which blood drains directly from a coronary artery into the left ventricle. CAF may cause myocardial ischaemia and angina. Myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE) is a non-invasive technique which assesses myocardial perfusion. We describe a patient with CAF in whom transmural myocardial ischaemia...

Among adolescents, overweight, obesity and metabolic syndrome are rapidly increasing in recent years as a consequence of unhealthy palatable diets. Animal models of diet-induced obesity have been developed, but little is known about the behavioural patterns produced by the consumption of such diets. The aim of the present study was to determine the behavioural and biochemical effects of a cafet...

Received 7/16/2008; revised 9/5/2008; accepted 9/8/2008. For correspondence and reprints contact: Ming-Hsien Lin, M.D., Division of Nuclear Medicine, Taipei City Hospital Zhongxiao Branch. 87 Tonde Road, Nangang District, Taipei 115, Taiwan, Tel: (886)2-27861288 ext. 8089, Fax: (886)2-26534501, E-mail: [email protected] Previous reports stated that patients with coronary artery fistula (CAF) a...

AIMS Human atrial electrophysiology exhibits high inter-subject variability in both sinus rhythm (SR) and chronic atrial fibrillation (cAF) patients. Variability is however rarely investigated in experimental and theoretical electrophysiological studies, thus hampering the understanding of its underlying causes but also its implications in explaining differences in the response to disease and t...

Rapid atrial pacing causes electrical remodeling that leads to atrial fibrillation (AF). AF can further remodel atrial electrophysiology to maintain AF. Our previous studies showed that there was a marked difference in the duration of AF in dogs that have been atrial paced at 400 beats/min for 6 wk. We hypothesized that this difference is based on the changes in the degree of electrical remodel...