Statins have been reported to confer renoprotection in several experimental models of renal disease through pleiotropic actions. The roles of statins in glomerular podocytes have not been explored. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of fluvastatin on podocyte and tubulointerstitial injury in puromycin aminonucleoside (PAN)-induced nephrosis. PAN induced massive proteinuria ...

Puromycin aminonucleoside-induced nephrotic syndrome (PAN-NS) is characterized by cardiac remodeling and increased local inflammatory activity. Patients with NS and animal models of NS have vitamin D3 deficiency. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the influence of calcitriol on cardiac remodeling and local inflammatory state in PAN-NS rat model. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were injected ...

In this paper, polyacrylonitrile PAN - titania TiO2 electrospun nanofiber PAN/TiO2 nanofiber was prepared via a facile electrospinning method. The characteristics of the PAN/TiO2 nanofiber were investigated using SEM and FTIR. The nanofiber showed retained nanofiber structures and high photocatalytic efficiency under UV light for the degradation of Direct Red 80 DR80 and Direct Red 23 DR23 in w...

conclusions this study represented an increasing rate of mdr p. aeruginosa in burn and wound samples. efflux mexab genes were detected in all mdr and pdr strains. the p. aeruginosa strain isolated from burn cases showed higher drug resistance and pdr resistance was only noted in a burn sample. materials and methods one-hundred and fifty p. aeruginosa were isolated from burn and wound infections...

In this paper, we present PAN-on-Demand, a self-organizing multi-radio system that balances performance and energy concerns by scaling the structure of the network to match the demands of applications. Since current mobile devices ship with multiple radios, PAN-on-Demand can improve performance and extend battery lifetime by switching between different wireless interfaces such as Bluetooth and ...

The purpose of this work was to develop a practical scale-up model for a solvent-based pan-coating process. scale up of adsorption column Practical scale-up rules to determine. ABSTRACT: Although significant progress had been made in developing general scale-up rules for an aqueous pan-coating process, there. Practical scale-up rules to determine the key parameters pan load, pan speed, spray ra...

to evaluate the effect of drought stress and foliar application of ascorbic acid on the growth and yield parameters of two varieties of sunflower pilot plant in the province of alborz as a split factorial in a randomized complete block design with four replications and treatments include: water stress (s) in three levels (s1) 70 mm evaporation from pan class a, (s2) 110 mm evaporation from pan ...

Blend hydrogels composed of carboxymethyl chitosan (CMCh) and poly (acrylonitrile) (PAN) were synthesized via crosslinking method. Several analyses were made to investigate both physical and thermal properties of CMCh/PAN hydrogels like; FTIR, scanning electron microscope, XRD and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). TGA results showed that CMCh/PAN hydrogels are thermally more stable than CMCh an...