BACKGROUND By measuring very early changes in muscle strength and functional performance after fast-track total hip arthroplasty (THA), post-operative rehabilitation, introduced soon after surgery, can be designed to specifically target identified deficits. OBJECTIVES Firstly, to quantify changes (compared to pre-operative values) in hip muscle strength, leg-press power, and functional perfor...

Objectives: Decreased mechanical loading after orthopaedic surgery predisposes patients to develop muscle atrophy. The purpose of the study was assess whether oral protein supplementation can help decrease postoperative atrophy and/or improve patient outcomes following surgery. Methods: A systematic review literature performed Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses (...

in order to investigate drought stress and plant density the yield, yield components and protein of spotted bean grain (cultivar talash), an experiment was carried out as split plots in randomized complete blocks with three replications in yasouj, in 2012. factors of the test including irrigation in three levels; without stress (control treatment), water stress in vegetative stage (interrupting...

iron deficiency in soil reduces the quality of durum wheat leading to fe deficiency in human. thus, this experiment investigated the effects of foliar application of nano-iron oxide (2 and 4 g l-1), iron chelate (edta), (4 and 8 g l-1), iron sulfate (4 and 8 g l-1), and the control on grain yield and quality, yield components, chlorophyll and carotenoids contents, peroxidase (pox), catalase (ca...

There is increasing evidence that pregnancy alters the function of drug-metabolizing enzymes and drug transporters in a gestationalstage and tissue-specific manner. In vivo probe studies have shown that the activity of several hepatic cytochrome P450 enzymes, such as CYP2D6 and CYP3A4, is increased during pregnancy, whereas the activity of others, such as CYP1A2, is decreased. The activity of s...

BACKGROUND This study investigated the hepatoprotective effect and antioxidant properties of phloroacetophenone (2',4',6'-trihydroxyacetophenone - THA), an acetophenone derived from the plant Myrcia multiflora. MATERIAL #ENTITYSTARTX00026; METHOD The free radical scavenging activity in vitro and induction of oxidative hepatic damage by carbon tetrachloride (CCl(4)) (0.5 ml/kg, i.p.) were test...

Objective:  In addition to the role of organic matter in plant nutrition, this material improves soil quality, physical structure, ventilation and water supply, and ease of penetration and expansion is rooted deep in the soil surface. Effects of organic matter due to climatic factors, soil characteristics may vary from region to region, resulting in organic materials management must be given to...

(1) True/False [14 points, 2 each] For each answer provide a one sentence explanation. a) Aries could do " time travel " if you kept the whole log and a set of archived snapshots. True. Time travel is the ability to go back to previous point in " serialization " time (which is well defined for ACID transactions). You can start from a fuzzy snapshot and roll forward to the target time using the ...

In an earlier s tudy 1, 2 of leucine metabolism in crude heart extracts, da ta were obtained indicating that fl-methylcrotonyl CoA is acted upon by enoyl hydrase (crotonase) and tha t the resulting fl-hydroxyisovaleryl CoA is carboxylated enzymically in the presence of ATP to yield fl-hydroxy-fl-methylglutaryl CoA. This product is known 8 to be a t tacked by a specific cleavage enzyme to finnis...