due to the lack of water quality of resourses in country, exact review of available water resources quality, especially in terms of heavy elements (heavy metals) has a particular importance. due to industrial towns 1 and 2 of yasuj city and also yasuj wastewater treatment, surveying environmental harmful effects of heavy metals on this river is very important. to investigate the changes of heav...

Emerging evidence indicates the involvement of GPR55 and its proposed endogenous ligand, lysophosphatidylinositol (LPI), in nociception, yet their role in central pain processing has not been explored. Using Ca(2+) imaging, we show here that LPI elicits concentration-dependent and GPR55-mediated increases in intracellular Ca(2+) levels in dissociated rat periaqueductal gray (PAG) neurons, which...

introduction: among the environmental pollutions, noise is very important for its physiological  and psychological effects on human. traffic noise is one of the most important pollutants and the  hospitals  are  one  of  the  critical  places  regarding  this  type  of  noise.  for  these  reasons,  in  the  summer  of  1382,  the  traffic  noise  of  mashhad  main  streets  around  the  hospit...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate changes in the speed of pupil constriction and in anterior segment parameters after laser peripheral iridotomy (LPI) in patients with angle closure using anterior segment optical coherence tomography. METHODS In this prospective observational study, videos of pupil and anterior segment changes in response to illumination were captured with real-time video recording using...

Background and purpose: The glycerol-based lysophospholipid lysophosphatidylinositol (LPI) is an endogenous agonist of the G-protein-coupled receptor 55 (GPR55) exhibiting cannabinoid receptor-like properties in endothelial cells. To estimate the contribution of GPR55 to the physiological effects of LPI, the GPR55-dependent and -independent electrical responses in this cell type were investigat...

A s a result of its strong oxidative activity, iron (1) has been hypothesized to be of importance in morbidity and mortality from atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD) (2). Numerous studies (3) have failed to show a relationship between total body iron and CVD. However, total iron may not be reflective of the risk of oxidative damage mediated by iron. A linkage between iron and CVD is mo...

Synthesis of H1˚ histone protein, in the developing rat brain, seems to be regulated mainly at the post-transcriptional level. Since regulation of RNA metabolism depends on a series of RNA-binding proteins, we have been searching for RNA-binding proteins involved in the post-transcriptional regulation of the H1˚ gene. We recently reported isolatio...

BACKGROUND To report the risk of cataract progression among primary angle closure suspects (PACS) 6 years after they underwent laser peripheral iridotomy (LPI). METHODS In the Chennai Eye Disease Incidence Study, 6 years after their baseline evaluation, 4421 subjects were examined again. As part of a detailed evaluation cataract was graded using the Lens Opacities Classification System II; pr...

Soil liquefaction resistance evaluation is an important site investigation for seismically active areas. To minimize the loss of life and property, hazard analysis a prerequisite seismic risk management. Liquefaction potential index (LPI) widely used to determine severity quantitatively spatially. LPI estimated from factor safety that ratio cyclic (CRR) stress calculated applying simplified pro...

Purpose: To evaluate the associa on between baseline ocular variables and the opening of the anterior chamber angle by laser peripheral iridotomy (LPI) in primary angle closure suspects (PACS) using a new Fourier-domain swept-source anterior segment op cal coherence tomography (FD-ASOCT). Method: Sixty-six PACS eyes of 41 individuals were included in this prospec ve interven onal case series. A...