The efficiencies of airway heat and moisture exchanging filters in reducing respiratory water losses and increasing airway temperatures during general anesthesia were studied in five tracheally intubated patients given isoflurane, nitrous oxide, and oxygen anesthesia during controlled ventilation. Filters (Humid-Vent Filter, Humid-Vent 1, Pall Conserve, Siemens 150, and ThermoVent 600) were pla...

Four commonly used end-line filters, one with a charge-modified hydrophilic nylon filter (ELD96; Pall Biomedical Ltd., Portsmouth, United Kingdom), one with an unmodified nylon filter (FAE020; Pall Biomedical), and two with hydrophilic cellulose ester filters (Ivex-HP, Millipore Corp., Bedford, Mass.; Sterifix, Braun-Gelman, Brussels, Belgium), were evaluated for their endotoxin-removing capaci...

Exposure to local pollen allergens has a direct bearing on the prevalence of allergic symptoms among the inhabiting atopic population. The populations in the Himalayas and around it are exposed to a variety of pollen grains from trees growing in the region, but the pollen-population interaction has not been clinically investigated. Himalayan tree pollen from five different taxa, i.e. Alnus niti...

A new monoterpene glycoside, 6'-O-beta-D-glucopyranosylalbiflorin (1), and four known compounds; albiflorin (2), 6'-O-benzoylalbiflorin (3), paeoniflorin (4) and benzoyl paeoniflorin (5), were isolated from the methanolic extract of the roots of Paeonia lactiflora Pall.. Their chemical structures were completely elucidated using a combination of 2D NMR techniques (COSY, HMQC and HMBC) and HRESI...

Quantification of carbon stocks is critical to evaluate the potential an ecosystem mitigate impact global climate change in REDD + scenario. Present research project was designed gauge sequestered Chir Pine (Pinus roxburghii) dominated forests foothills western Himalayan region Kashmir which constitute a significant regional pool. The study outcomes revealed average stock value 94.3 Mg/ha from ...

All things that live long are gradually so saturated with reason that their origin in unreason becomes improbable.. .. Does the good historian not, at bottom, contradict? —Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak We changed " extract " in the first page of the article to " epigraph. " Please check. Precisely because the experience of the 2001 HOPE conference was a bit unnerving, I want to start out with a...