Pulverized rhizome of Curcuma longa on hydrodistilation, afforded oil in the yield of 1.24% v/w. The oil was investigated by GC and GC/MS. Hydrocarbon monoterpenes (46.9%) constituted bulk of the oil. The major constituents of the oil were, $-bisabolene (13.9%), trans-ocimene (9.8%), myrcene (7.6%), 1,8-cineole (6.9%), "-thujene (6.7%) and thymol (6.4%). Key word: Index: curcuma longa % Zingibe...

A procedure is described which permits the isolation from the prepuberal mouse testis of highly purified populations of primitive type A spermatogonia, type A spermatogonia, type B spermatogonia, preleptotene primary spermatocytes, leptotene and zygotene primary spermatocytes, pachytene primary spermatocytes and Sertoli cells. The successful isolation of these prepuberal cell types was accompli...

41 Elementary Number Theory 92 41.1 Subgroups of the Integers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 41.2 Greatest Common Divisors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 41.3 The Euclidean Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 41.4 Prime Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 41.5 The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 4...

Background: Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) as other chronic diseases causes dependence and decreasing body control. It also causes unworthy unsafely, negative suggestions and decreasing of Self-confidence. The aim of this comparative study was comparing Selfconfidence in woman with and without PCOS according to their ages. Materials and Methods: This comparative study conducted between 100 wo...

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INTRODUCTION Soft tissue infections are common, but erysipelas, especially its blistering feature, is an under-recognised entity. There have been few reports of blistering erysipelas. We aim to describe the clinical characteristics, management and the risk factors for erysipelas in 20 patients admitted in a tertiary hospital in Singapore. METHODS A chart review of all cases of erysipelas, dia...

INTRODUCTION Guidelines recommendations for the treatment of COPD are poorly followed. This could be related to the complexity of classification and treatment algorithms. The purpose of this study was to validate a simpler dyspnea-based treatment algorithm for inhaled pharmacotherapy in stable COPD, comparing its concordance with the current Global Initiative for Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD)...

Survival and development of human embryos was compared following slow cooling versus vitrification involving more than 13,000 vitrified embryos. In addition, the efficacy of an open system, the Cryotop, and a closed vitrification system, the CryoTip(trade mark), were compared using human blastocysts. One hundred percent of vitrified human pronuclear stage embryos survived and 52% developed to b...

OBJECTIVE to assess persistence of sustained viral response at 5 years of follow-up in patients with chronic viral hepatitis C treated with pegylated interferon and ribavirin. DESIGN a descriptive study. PATIENTS from August 2001 to May 2004, all patients treated at our center with pegylated interferon and ribavirin who achieved a sustained viral response were consecutively enrolled (93 pat...

One hundred seventy-nine patients with acute nonlymphoblastic leukemia in first remission (n = 75), chronic myelocytic leukemia in chronic or accelerated phase (n = 48) or leukemia in advanced stage (n = 56) were given HLA-identical marrow grafts and randomized to receive methotrexate or cyclosporine for prevention of graft-v-host disease (GVHD). The current report updates the three prospective...