Twenty patients took part in a controlled double blind study comparing the efficacy of colloidal bismuth and cimetidine (800 mg at night) with cimetidine alone in the treatment of ulcerative reflux oesophagitis. Colloidal bismuth 120 mg was administered through an intraoesophageal tube four times a day. Cimetidine with colloidal bismuth gives significantly (p less than 0.001) better results tha...

Hoover MA, Pelaez NJ. Blood circulation laboratory investigations with video are less investigative than instructional blood circulation laboratories with live organisms. Adv Physiol Educ 31: 55–60, 2008; doi:10.1152/advan.00009.2007.—Live organisms versus digital video of the organisms were used to challenge students’ naive ideas and misconceptions about blood, the heart, and circulatory patte...

In recent years, two concepts similar to /?-sequences have appeared, essential sequences and asymptotic sequences. This work explores the general nature of such sequences. Introduction. In the last three years, two concepts similar to that of Ä-sequences have appeared, asymptotic sequences and essential sequences. Motivated by these examples, this paper will study the general nature of such seq...

background and aims: p504s (amacr) is a mitochondrial enzyme expressed in renal cell carcinoma. some of immunohistochemical markers in renal cell tumors are independent prognostic factor and show relation with histologic grading. amacr expression increases with higher histological grading in different tumors; however, in rcc it is not obvious. in this study, we tried to investigate if any relat...

abstractbackgroundand endotracheal intubation under direct vision in both anticipated and unexpecteddifficult intubation situations.: the lma ctrach system is a new device for airway managementmethodsdifferent types of elective surgeries. after randomly selecting the patients for intubationwith this new device, the airway characteristics, height, weight, dental overbiteand thyromental distance ...