Reaction time task rule congruency effects (RT-TRCEs) reflect faster responses to stimuli for which the competing task rules indicate the same correct response than to stimuli indicating conflicting responses. The authors tested the hypothesis that RT-TRCE reflects activated overlearned response category codes in long-term memory (such as up or left). The results support the hypothesis by showi...

background: elevated level of plasma homocysteine has been related to various diseases. patients with hyperhomocysteinemia can develop hepatic steatosis and fibrosis. we hypothesized that oxidative stress induced by homocysteine might play an important role in pathogenesis of liver injury. also, the cellular response designed to combat oxidative stress is primarily controlled by the transcripti...

Background: The High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) has had space in social networks that disseminate its practice and also among practitioners of physical exercises a global way. Objective: To verify if the stimuli order (HIIT-RT or RT-HIIT) changes acute hemodynamic response. Methods: 10 young adult male participants aged between 18 30 years (24.7 ± 2.2). For test protocols intensity inte...

background: small cell lung cancer (sclc) is a highly aggressive tumor.   objective: to evaluate the survival and time to progression of patients with sclc admitted to a chest disease center in istanbul, turkey.   methods: based on the reports of a pulmonary oncology clinic, data regarding performance status (ps), clinical stage of disease, treatment, time to progression and survival of 67 pati...

Introduction: hospitals performance indicators will help monitoring, evaluation and decision making and therefore must be selected and ranked accurately. The aim of present study is identifying and selecting key hospitals performance indicators. Materials and methods: This is a descriptive and mixed (quantitative-qualitative) study. literature review and expert panel has been done to identif...

influenza a virus is now considered to be widespread in poultry and has demonstrated the ability to infect humans in iran. for laboratory diagnosis of these respiratory viruses, it is essential to have rapid methods, able to detect viruses in early stages of the infection in clinical specimens. the real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction n (rrt-pcr) assay has been established ...

conclusions the in-house 1 step taqman real time rt-pcr assay showed acceptable performance characteristics. our study presents the robustness and cost-effectiveness of the method for detection and quantification of hcv rna. methods the primers and probe were selected from a highly conserved region of the hcv genome, which allowed the detection of 4 common hcv genotypes in iran. using 4 quantif...