Healthy soils are important to ensure satisfactory crop growth and yield. Poultry litter (PL), as an organic fertilizer, has proven supply the soil with essential macro micronutrients, enhance fertility, improve productivity. Integrating this treatment potential physical biological properties by increasing carbon, C. However, rapid decomposition mineralization of PL, particularly in hot humid s...

CHEST 71: 2, FEBRUARY, 1977 SUPPLEMENT RVEF, cardiac index (CI), and mean pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) were measured before and 30 minutes after intravenous ouabain (0.01 mgkg) in 11 patients with severe CAO and DCP. Control RVEF (46.9 ± 3.4%), CI (2.79 0.15 L/min/M2) and PAP (30 ± 2 mm Hg) were not significantly altered by ouabain (48.5 ± 2.9%, 2.82 ± 0.14 L/min/M2, 31 ± 1 mm Hg respectivel...

The Na⁺-H⁺-exchanger-1 (NHE-1) controls intracellular pH and glycolytic enzyme activities, and its expression and activity are increased by diabetes and high glucose. NHE-1-dependent upregulation of the upper part of glycolysis, under conditions of inhibition (lens) or insufficient activation (retina) of glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase, underlies diversion of the excessive glycolytic f...

OBJECTIVES Rapamycin is an immunosuppressant compound with a broad spectrum of pharmaco-logical activities. In recent years, it has been used successfully to decrease ischemia-reperfusion injury in several organ systems. The purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of rapamycin on testicular ischemia-reperfusion injury. MATERIALS AND METHODS Seventy-two adult male Wistar rats we...

The present study was conducted to examine the contamination of rivulet situated at Kasimpur, Aligarh (27.218° N; 79.378° E). It receives the wastewater of Harduaganj Thermal Power Plant (HTPS) containing fly ash and heavy metals. Among the heavy metals estimated in the rivulet water, Fe (8.71 mgL(-1)) was present in the highest concentration followed by Cu (0.86 mgL(-1)), Zn (0.30 mgL(-1)) Mn ...

Objective: This study was designed to evaluate the effect of supplementation of Spirulina platensis on altered blood parameters in alloxan induced diabetic mice. Methods: Diabetes mellitus was induced by intra-peritoneal administration of alloxan-monohydrate. Mice were divided into four groups of six mice in each group. Group-I was normal, group-II was diabetic, group-III was diabetic control f...

Gilthead sea bream Sparus aurata is the most commercialized Mediterranean aquacultured fish species. Ivermectin has recently (experimentally) started to be used to control ectoparasitic infestations in Mediterranean cultured marine fish. The potential hepatotoxicity of ivermectin was investigated in gilthead sea bream juveniles (35g) following oral administration at the recommended dose of 0.2 ...

BACKGROUND/AIM The effects of different prokinetic agents, the motilide erythromycin and the substituted benzamides metoclopramide and cisapride, were investigated in a rat model of postoperative ileus. These effects were compared with that of granisetron, a 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT(3)) receptor antagonist, and a novel enterokinetic agent, prucalopride, a 5-HT(4) receptor agonist. METHODS Di...

PURPOSE To investigate the effects of l-alanyl-glutamine (Ala-Gln) intragastric administration upon blood and kidney metabolic parameters alterations in rats subjected to ischemia/reperfusion of hind limb. METHODS Forty-eight male rats were randomized in 2 groups offered via gavage either saline 2.0 mL (G-1) or Ala-Gln solution 0.75 mgKg-1(G-2) once a day at 7 AM during 7 days. One-hour after...