INTRODUCTION Aspirin (ASA) irreversibly inhibits platelet cyclooxygenase-1 (COX-1) leading to decreased thromboxane-mediated platelet activation. The effect of ASA ingestion on platelet activation, thromboxane generation, oxidative stress and anti-oxidant biomarkers was studied in type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). MATERIAL AND METHODS Baseline and post-ASA samples (100/325 mg x 7 days) were obta...

Guava is one of the most important commercial fruit crop in Bangladesh due to its high nutrient value, good taste and high health benefits. This study was conducted to investigate the flowering, fruiting behavior and nutritional quality of guava genotype suitable for coastal region of Bangladesh. Fifteen genotypes (PG 01 to PG 15) having satisfactory growth were selected for this study. One bra...

Serre has asked if there are motives M with motivic Galois group of type G2 [Se3; pg 386]. This paper is the first step in a project to construct such a motive M , of rank 7 and weight 0, over the base field Q. Let G be the anisotropic form of G2 over Q, and let π = ⊗̂vπv be an automorphic representation of the adelic group G(A). At almost all primes p, the local representation πp is unramified ...

The advent of engineered nanoparticles (ENPs) and their increased use has remarkably improved the performance of basic materials and consumer products, but has also increased the potential for ENP release into the environment. Technical procedures, more accurate and specific than those for routine chemical analysis, are needed for characterization and quantification of ENPs at environmentally r...

Every symplectic spread of PG(3, q), or equivalently every ovoid of Q(4, q), is shown to give a certain family of permutation polynomials of GF (q) and conversely. This leads to an algebraic proof of the existence of the Tits-Lüneburg spread of W (2) and the Ree-Tits spread of W (3), as well as to a new family of low-degree permutation polynomials over GF (3). Let PG(3, q) denote the projective...

BACKGROUND To better characterize the value of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) proteins as diagnostic markers in a clinical population of subacute encephalopathy patients with relatively low prevalence of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD), we studied the diagnostic accuracies of several such markers (14-3-3, tau and S100B) in 1000 prospectively and sequentially recruited Canadian patients wit...