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background: gastroesophageal reflux disease (gerd) is prevalent in the west. mayo-gerq is one of the most widely used questionnaires for screening gerd. we validated gerq in an iranian population. methods: the mayo-gerq was translated into persian (p-gerq) and reviewed and commented by two gastroenterolo­gists. eleven lay-people filled it in and commented on it. reliability was assessed by test...

materials and methods the development of the trauma registry form began in february 2013. the variables were finalized by a team consisting of general and trauma surgeons, specialists in emergency medicine, orthopedists, neurosurgeons, and public health professionals who have special interest in trauma research. the scale was sent to 10 specialists for validation. results after assessing the sc...

background symptoms of gastro-esophageal reflux disease (gerd) affect health-related quality of life (hrqol). when a questionnaire is translated into a new language, linguistic validation is necessary, yet insufficient, unless the psychometric characteristics have been verified. the aim of this study is to document the translation and psychometric validation of the persian translation of the qu...

Mongan, Paul D., John L. Fontana, Rouyan Chen, and Rolf Bünger. Intravenous pyruvate prolongs survival during hemorrhagic shock in swine. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 46): H2253–H2263, 1999.—Pyruvate improves cellular and organ function during hypoxia and ischemia and stabilizes the NADH redox state and cytosolic ATP phosphorylation potential. In this in vivo study, we evaluated th...

Carbajal, José M., and Richard C. Schaeffer, Jr. RhoA inactivation enhances endothelial barrier function. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Cell Physiol. 46): C955–C964, 1999.—The modulation of endothelial barrier function is thought to be a function of contractile tension mediated by the cell cytoskeleton, which consists of actomyosin stress fibers (SF) linked to focal adhesions (FA). We tested this hypoth...