Background and aims: Primary hypertension, an unexplained increase in blood pressure (BP), accounts for 90% of the cases hypertension remains a critical public health challenge. This study aimed to investigate effects 12-week resistance training (RT) on some vasodilators vasoconstrictors hypertensive men. Methods: is semi-experimental study. A total 40 middle-aged men (45.3±3.2 years) with mode...

Abstract The present study was carried out to determine incidence of overweight and obesity in Pakistani servicemen with reference their area duty, feeding habits also identify risk factors. Accordingly, 2,501 selected from all over Pakistan using multiple stage stratified sampling protocol. Nutrition assessment performed body mass index (BMI), waist hip ratio (WHR) dietary food frequency quest...

Introduction: Optimization of waste collection systems can reduce waste management costs. In this study, optimization of the waste collection system of district 3 of Yazd municipality of Iran has been investigated using underground containers. Materials and Methods: In this research, after collecting information and performing field inspections, the statistical and raster information obtained ...

Aim: We investigated the effects of continuous or interval aerobic exercise training on vascular reactivity female rats fed with fructose. Methods: Female Wistar (8-wk old) were divided into: sedentary (SD), (CTR), and (ITR). Moderate intensity protocols consisted running 3 days/week for 7 weeks. CTR ran 40 min at 30%–40% maximal speed (MS) TRI sets 1 70% MS followed by 35% MS. Animals standard...

Resiquimod, a Toll-like receptor 7/8 agonist developed as a topical treatment to decrease recurrences of anogenital herpes, induces proinflammatory cytokines that may delay lesion healing. Adults with frequently recurring anogenital herpes were randomized within 24 h of onset of a recurrence to vehicle or resiquimod 0.01% gel two times per week for 3 weeks. Subjects underwent daily lesion asses...

The purposes of this study were to characterize measures of fluid intake and perception of thirst in women over a 6-week period of exercise-heat acclimation and outdoor training and examine if this lengthy acclimation period would result in changes in fluid intake that differ from those previously reported in men utilizing a shorter acclimation protocol of 8-10 days. Voluntary water intake (11-...

Bioactive food components containing n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) modulate multiple determinants that link inflammation to cancer initiation and progression. Therefore, in this study, fat-1 transgenic mice, which convert endogenous n-6 PUFA to n-3 PUFA in multiple tissues, were injected with azoxymethane followed by three cycles of dextran sodium sulfate (DSS) to induce colitis-associ...

We examined the effects of sex steroids on cognitive functioning by exogenously manipulating circulating T levels in a group of healthy young men. Thirty-two men were randomized to receive 8 wk of treatment including: 1) im T enanthate 100 mg/wk plus daily oral placebo (T); 2) im placebo/wk plus 125 microg daily oral levonorgestrel (LNG); 3) im T enanthate 100 mg/wk plus 125 microg daily oral L...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To evaluate antitumor efficacy of the generic mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitor sirolimus in preclinical animal models of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) and compare its effects with those of the patented analogue temsirolimus. STUDY DESIGN In vivo study. METHODS To develop xenograft established tumor model (ETM) of HNSCC, FaDu cells were inj...