BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE In Sweden, surgery for knee osteoarthritis (OA) in patients younger than 55 years of age has doubled during the last 10 years. We evaluated the use of 3 surgical alternatives: high tibial osteotomy (HTO), unicompartmental arthroplasty (UKA), and total knee arthroplasty (TKA). We also examined the outcome, expressed by rate of revision. METHODS The numbers of all procedu...

background: quercetin is a strong antioxidant and long-term treatment of stz-diabetic animals and it has been shown to reduce oxidative stress.   objective: antioxidants have essential effect on spermatogenesis and sperm parameters. enhanced oxidative stress and changes in antioxidant capacity are considered to play an important role in the pathogenesis of chronic diabetes mellitus.   methods: ...

This paper reports the results for the pH of three buffer solutions free of chloride ion. The remaining six buffer solutions have saline media of the ionic strength I = 0.16 mol·kg, matching closely to that of the physiological sample. Conventional paH values for the three buffer solutions without the chloride ion and six buffer solutions with the chloride ion at I = 0.16 mol·kg from 5 ̊C to 55 ̊...

introduction: nymphea lotus linn (n. lotus) flowers are used empirically for the treatment of male sexual disorders in cameroon west region. this study was aimed to evaluate the effects of the n. lotus on some parameters of male fertility in adult albino male rats. methods: twenty four male rats were divided in 4 groups (n=6 each) and subjected to the following treatment: distilled water as veh...