conclusion vttq can sensitively detect the elasticity changes in patients with ckd, and it can effectively predict renal insufficiency. this technology provides a valuable tool for the assessment of ckd. patients and methods sixty-five patients with ckd and seventy healthy participants were included in this study. a total of 270 kidneys were examined by vttq. the kidney elasticity was expressed...

conclusions our study shows in terms of figures that measurements of features of the temporal bone made from spiral ct scan images and those directly obtained during surgery are similar to an adequate extent. results twenty cases were included. in the three measurements performed in this study, only the first parameter (distance between the canal and the sigmoid sinus) was significantly differe...

Spontaneous activity drives the establishment of appropriate connectivity in different circuits during brain development. In mouse primary visual cortex, two distinct patterns spontaneous occur before vision onset: local low-synchronicity events originating retina and global high-synchronicity cortex. We sought to determine contribution these jointly organize network through activity-dependent ...

Introduction: The lack of social communication is associated with the primary risk of proper brain functions. It is reported that crocin helps relieve this problem. The present study examined the protective effect of two doses of crocin on Long-term potentiation (LTP) of hippocampal cornu ammonis 1 (CA1) area as a cellular mechanism in rats exposed to chronic social isolated stress. Methods: R...

investigations concerning the higher level activities of the cerebellar cortex in regard to psychoneurosis have revealed quite different point of views as compared to early pioneers in this field such as freud. systematic approach to informational processing as one of the higher level functions of cerebellar cortex plays an influencial part of the genesis of psychoneurosis. there are some simil...

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a disorder of emotional and mental stress occurring as an outcome of injury or severe emotional shock. Several Neuroimaging studies in humans have shown the functions and relationship between the anatomical changes of brain and PTSD. The three major areas of the brain are affected by PTSD .These three areas are the amygdala, hippocampus and prefrontal cor...

The effects of intraperitoneal injection of N6-cyclohexyladenosine (CHA, a selective adenosine A1 receptor agonist) and 8-cyclopenthyle-I-3-dimethylexanthine (CPT, a selective adenosine A1 receptor antagonist) on entorhinal cortex-kindled seizures were investigated. Fully entorhinal cortex-kindled rats received normal saline (control), CHA (0.06, 0.12 and 0.25 mg/kg) or CPT (0.06 and 0.12 mg/kg...

Objective- to assess the normal ultrasonographic findings of kidney in the Raiini goat. Design- Experimental study. Animals- 10 female Raiini goats. Procedures- .Necropsy was carried out and Kidneys were measured in length, width, and diameter after fixation in formalin. Ultrasonography was carried out by longitudinal and transversal planes to evaluate all renal structures. Echogenicity and ...

A computational model in one dimension is proposed to position a single centrosome using astral microtubules (MTs) interacting with the cell cortex. The mechanism exploits mutually antagonistic pulling and pushing forces arising from MTs’ binding cortical dynein motors actin-rich cortex their buckling while growing against cortex, respectively. underlying extended account for elongation positio...

background: the cuprizone multiple sclerosis (ms) animal model is characteristic for toxic demyelination and represents a reversible demyelination and remyelination system. it has been shown that green tea epigallocatechin-3-gallate (egcg) might be effective in improving the symptoms and pathological conditions associated with autoimmune inflammatory diseases in several animal models. objective...