background: rooming-in, motivated by world health organization (who) strategies and baby-friendly hospital policies, is a practice followed in many maternity hospitals of iran. mother-infant dyad may easily be damaged by the separation caused by medical and surgical problems, which result in hospital stay. regarding this, the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of the rooming-in pr...

amikacin is a bactericidal aminoglycoside. aminoglycosides inhibit bacterial protein synthesis. the antibacterial spectrum of amikacin is the broadest of aminoglycosides. because of its resistance to many of the aminoglycosides-inactivating enzymes, it has a special role in hospitals where gentamicin- and tobramycin-resistant microorganisms are prevalent. amikacin is active against the majority...

Dietary arachidonic acid (20:4n-6) utilization in-vivo for carbon recycling into de-novo lipogenesis and conversion to n-6 long chain polyunsaturates was investigated in baboon neonates using [U-(13)C]20:4n-6. Neonates consuming a formula typical of human milk received a single oral dose of [(13)C]arachidonic acid in sn-2 position of either triglyceride or phosphatidylcholine at 18-19 days of p...

Foetal dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) are bent ventrolaterally, such that the tailflukes and lower jaw are juxtaposed. The lateral flexibility required en utero may compromise the efficiency of the dorsoventral oscillations required of the swimming neonate. The m. intertransversarius caudae dorsalis (IT) is the most laterally placed epaxial muscle. Bilateral contractions of the IT could limit la...

Analyses of animal movement data have primarily focused on understanding patterns of space use and the behavioural processes driving them. Here, we analyzed animal movement data to infer components of individual fitness, specifically parturition and neonate survival. We predicted that parturition and neonate loss events could be identified by sudden and marked changes in female movement pattern...

During development, the cardiac alpha 1-adrenergic chronotropic response changes from positive in the neonate to negative in the adult. The negative chronotropic effect of alpha 1-adrenergic stimulation in the adult depends on maturation of sympathetic innervation and the presence of a pertussis toxin (PT)-sensitive guanine nucleotide-binding (G) protein. To examine the possibility of a develop...

OBJECTIVE: Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia (N-HB) usually resulted in bilirubin encephalopathy even death in children. The present study was designed to investigate the prevention and intervention initiatives for N-HB. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Case-control method was used to study the effects of early intervention on neonate with hyperbilirubinemia and perinatal factors. A total of 412 N-HB cases (20...