Background A novel strain relaxation index (SRI) is introduced to assess diastolic function by CMR, using myocardial deformation during LV relaxation. We investigate how SRI relates to standard diastolic parameters by echocardiography (echo). We also relate SRI to mass to volume ratio (MVR) by CMR, which is seen to increase in diastolic dysfunction. SRI accounts for both very early myocardial r...

Vasanthy Arasaratnam MSc, PhD D N Atukorala MD, FRCP Varuni De Silva MBBS, MD S A S Goonewardena MS, FRCS Malik Goonewardene MS, FRCOG Renuka Jayatissa MD, MSc Neelika Malavige MRCP, DPhil A Pathmeswaran MBBS, MD B J C Perera MD, FRCPCH Channa D Ranasinha DTM&H, FRCP Udaya K Ranawaka MD, FRCP Shalini Sri Ranganathan MD, PhD D N Samarasekera MS, MD, FRCS Manouri Senanayake MD, FRCP Kamani H Tenn...

background recently, assessment of the atrial motion and deformation indices obtained via doppler myocardial imaging (dmi) has been proposed as a new method of exploring the atrial function. objective our aim was to assess the right atrial (ra) regional function using myocardial velocities, strain, and strain rate imaging (sri) and compare it with the function of the inter-atrial septum (ias) a...

Department of Biology, Madawalabu University, Post Box No: 247, Bale Zone, Robe, Ethiopia. Department of Chemistry, Madawalabu University, Post Box No: 247, Bale Zone, Robe, Ethiopia Department of Microbiology, Sri Sankara Art s and Science College (Affiliated to Madras University), Enathur, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, India Department of Zoology-DDE Wing, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar-608...

As a follow-up of the articles of R. Brindha and S. Parvathy, ASL, XXII, 2003, 166-168, fifteen edible plants of South Asian ecosystem, commonly used in Sri Lankan cuisine, are dealt with in view of their ethnobotanical and ehtonomedical value. Their vernacular names (Sanskrit, Sinhala, and Tamil given here) often reveal different botanical features and medicinal properties.

Gemunu H. Gunaratne, Chamith S. Rajapaksa, Kevin E. Bassler, Kishore K. Mohanty, and Sunil J. Wimalawansa 1 Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204 2 The Institute of Fundamental Studies, Kandy 20000, Sri Lanka 3 Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204 4 Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, T...

Title: Low serum total nitrite and nitrate levels in severe leptospirosis Authors Thilini Kalugalage, Institute of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Email: [email protected] Chaturaka Rodrigo, Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Email: [email protected] Thamal ...

Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College & Hospital, Puducherry. Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College & Hospital, Puducherry. III year MBBS student, Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College & Hospital, Puducherry. Tutor, Department of Biochemistry, Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College & Hospital, Puduc...

We report the nucleotide sequence of 16S ribosomal RNA from REFERENCES Lactobacillus viridescens NCDO 1655 (EMBL accession no. , s F Nick] s ^ C o u l s o n A R . ( 1 9 7 7 ) Proc. Natl Acad. 5 d . USA X52568) and Lactobacillus confusus NCDO 1586 (EMBL 74,5463-5467. accession no. X52567). Nucleotide sequences were determined 2. Lane.D.J., Pace.B., Olsen.G.J., Stahl.D.A., Sogin.M.L. and Pace.N.R...

We have investigated the functional relationship between two proteins involved in the photosensory system of the archaeon Halobacterium salinarium: the photoreceptor sensory rhodopsin I (SRI) and the halobacterial transducer rhodopsin I (HtrI), which has been proposed to be the putative signal transducer of SRI, by genomic DNA analysis of two independent SRI negative mutants, Pho81 and D1. Sout...