BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Radiotherapy is an important treatment for nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). Timing of radiotherapy has attracted more attention nowadays. This study was to assess the efficacy of accelerated fractionation (six fractions per week) versus conventional fractionation (five fractions per week) for NPC, thus to improve treatment efficacy without increasing complications. METHO...

zinc sulphate is currently used for treatment of zinc deficiency. its uptake by the body is poor, necessitating the administration of high doses. this leads to a range of unpleasant side effects. in order to increase the bioavailability of zinc, several zinc complexes have been designed and synthesized using bidentate ligands of hydroxypyranones and hydroxypyridinones. elemental analysis in eac...

background: the exposure of cell lines to low-dose irradiation leads to changes at molecular level, which may induce adaptive response. we examined radio-adaptive doses effect on human colorectal adenocarcinoma cell line (ht29) and human fetal fibroblasts (mrc5) cell line followed by hyper and hypo fractionation regimes, with main purpose to decrease cell viability in ht29, and at the same time...

Primary features of hydrogen and carbon isotope fractionation during toluene degradation were studied to evaluate if analysis of isotope signatures can be used as a tool to monitor biodegradation in contaminated aquifers. D/H hydrogen isotope fractionation during microbial degradation of toluene was measured by gas chromatography. Per-deuterated toluene-d(8) and nonlabeled toluene were supplied...

End products are returned in all or in part to the country of the supplier of plasma. The costs involved in establishing a contract fractionation program are substantially less than those involved in establishing and operating a fractionation plant. In the absence of a local fractionation plant, products originating from plasma collected locally can be made available using contract fractionatio...

[1] Longitudinal and diel measurements of dual isotope composition (dN and dO) in nitrate (NO3-N) were made in the Ichetucknee River, a large ( 8 m s ), entirely spring-fed river in North Florida, to determine whether isotopic variation can deconvolve assimilatory and dissimilatory removal. Comparing nitrate concentrations and isotope composition during the day and night we predicted (1) daytim...

Computational cognitive neuroimaging approaches can be leveraged to characterize the hierarchical organization of distributed, functionally specialized networks in the human brain. To this end, we performed large-scale mining across the BrainMap database of coordinate-based activation locations from over 10,000 task-based experiments. Meta-analytic coactivation networks were identified by joint...

Field flow fractionation is a family of separation techniques applicable to characterize various particulate materials of different nature. In this paper, formation of porous graphite during milling has been investigated by gravitational field flow fractionation. The results from gravitational field flow fractionation were compared to those from Brunauer-Emmett-Teller. The both techniques have ...

abstract in order to assess the availability of phosphorous (p), different methods have been proposed in the last decades. the results of these methods in soils with various ph, calcium carbonate, organic matter, al and fe oxides and hydroxides and other properties especially in iranian soils can not be used. in addition, knowledge about transformation of p forms is necessary for perception of ...

abstract with increasing population, mine activities for metal proceeding are also increasing, so environment will be influenced by contaminant especially heavy metals. in situ immobilization of heavy metals using inexpensive amendments is considered as a simple and cost-effective approach for reducing heavy metal contamination. in this research we used sequential extraction for assessing reduc...