background & aim: although socio-economic variables are widely used for describing the tourist's behavior, but increasing awareness is evident in current researches that personality characteristics might also be useful for that purpose. in this regard, the present study compares the personality characteristics of iranian tourists with those of non tourists. method and materials: in a causal com...

factors or disease or those found to have hypertension, renal dysfunction, or echocardiographic abnormalities. This we feel would leave very few, if any, subjects with important silent CAD. Furthermore, whether such subjects, if present, would have had raised NTpBNP levels is unclear, with no prior study analysing NTpBNP levels in subjects with asymptomatic CAD. Indeed, the paper by Kragelund e...

A.L. MANSON, N. CHAPMAN, Y. WEDATILAKE, M. BALIC, H. MARWAY, S.L. SENEVIRATNE and P. HOLLOWAY From the Department of Clinical Immunology, St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London W2 1NY, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London W2 1PG, Department of Chemical Pathology, St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College Hea...

the laboratory infection of lymnaea gedrosiana with 2,5 and 10 miracidia of fasciola gigantica resulted in infection rates of 20%, 40% and 69%, respectively, with a prepatent period of 66-88 days. there was a significant difference in infection rate between the snails infected with 2 and those with 10 miracidia (p<0.05). at 92 days post- infection there was 25% to 33.3% of live snails still har...

The β2-adrenergic effects of macerated extract, aqueous extract, ethanol extract, and essential oil of Carum copticum, 5 nM propranolol, and saline were tested by performing cumulative Log concentration-response curves of isoprenaline-induced relaxation of precontracted isolated guinea pig tracheal chains in three different conditions including: non-incubated (group 1, n=9) incubated with 1...