Genetically engineered production of 1-desmethylcobyrinic acid, 1desmethylcobyrinic acid a,c-diamide, and cobyrinic acid a,c-diamide in E. coli implies a role for CbiD in C-1 methylation in the anaerobic pathway to cobalamin* Charles A. Roessner, Howard J. Williams, and A. Ian Scott Center for Biological NMR, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3255 Running ...

INTRODUCTION Patient's satisfaction with health care in ambulance services is an important quality indicator and a helpful tool for managers of prehospital emergency services. This study aimed to measure patient satisfaction with health provided by prehospital emergency medical services (EMS) in Lorestan, Iran. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted on patients (n=450) transferred b...

Background: Iodine deficiency and its related disorder such as goiter are endemic in Lorestan province. Following initiation of iodine deficiency control program in 1989, production, distribution and consumption of iodinated salt were begun. This survey was conducted in the framework of national monitoring survey in 2001 to find out the prevalence of goiter and urinary iodine level in order to ...

a survey was carried out in seven villages around bandarabass, on persion gulf, to determine the prevalence of the intestinal protozoa infections. out of the 835 stool specimens examined, 676 samples were positive with single and multiple infections. the most prevalent of intestinal protozoa in bandarabass were entamoeba histolytica, entamoeba coli, giardia lambia and iodamoeba butschlii.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Iterative model reconstruction (IMR) has shown to improve computed tomography (CT) image quality compared hybrid iterative (HIR). Alberta Stroke Program Early CT Score (ASPECTS) assessment in early stroke is particularly dependent on high-image quality. Purpose of this study was investigate the reliability ASPECTS assessed by humans and software based HIR IMR, respectivel...

The Dinamap 845 blood pressure recorder has been evaluated over a wide range of blood pressure by comparison with the Hawksley random zero sphygmomanometer in 32 subjects, six of whom had a cardiac arrhythmia. Group mean radings for systolic and phase 5 diastolic pressure were almost identical but Dinamap diastolic values were on average significantly lower (mean difference 3.4 mmHg) than phase...