INTRODUCTION The need for the rational development of newer and adjuvant drugs to treat epilepsy has prompted this study of the potential anticonvulsant effect of amlodipine. METHODS The acute effect was studied in mice in single doses of 1 mg/kg, 2 mg/kg and 4 mg/kg of amlodipine and the chronic effect was studied in doses of 1 mg/kg and 4 mg/kg (administered daily for 21 days) using the max...

This research is useful to improve the learning outcomes of students in class IVB ipas through puzzle media at SDN Peterongan. The used a Classroom Action Research (PTK) design and was conducted over two cycles. assessment shows that there an increase each cycle. In pre-cycle, who were complete 8 or percentage 33% while those not 16 incomplete 67%. cycle I, 67% incomplete. II, 20 83% 4 17% It c...

Ovarian cystic lesions are one of the most common pathologic disorders in gynecology and a reason for surgery. The purpose study was to determine histopathologic characteristics benign ovarian their correlation age, type, laterality, locularity, size lesions. This is retrospective carried out on 100 cases from archive Imam Kadhimian medical city educational laboratories Baghdad city, patients, ...

Thermal epimerization is the key to changing the endo-to-exo ratio of the diastereomeric bornyl and fenchyl Grignard reagents from 67:33 to 96:4 and from 20:80 to 80:20, respectively.

The thoracic aorta of 21-, 28-, 35-, and 45-day-old spontaneously hypertensive (SH) and Wistar Kyoto (WK) rats was analyzed morphometrically to evaluate the cellular hypertrophy and proliferation of medial smooth muscle cells during the development of genetically determined hypertension. The absolute increase in volume of collagen and ground substance, and elastic tissue was also measured. In S...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether preoperative hypercoagulable abnormalities are independent risk-factors for the failure of arterial reconstruction in leg ischaemia. METHODS Sixty consecutive patients were studied before, and for 1 year following, elective peripheral revascularisation. Antithrombin III, protein C and protein S levels, and tests for lupus anticoagulant were performed preoperati...

BACKGROUND Brain metastases (BM) of gastro-oesophageal cancer are exceedingly rare and only limited data exist on their pathobiology. MATERIALS AND METHODS We identified tissue samples of BM of gastro-oesophageal cancer and analyzed the expression of human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER2), phosphorylated signal transducer and activator of transcription-3 (pSTAT3), epithelial growth f...

BACKGROUND Mutations of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients predict the patients who will respond to EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) treatment. A recent study has suggested that 33% of NSCLC showed primary tumor/metastasis discordance of EGFR expression by immunohistochemistry analysis. We intended to find out whether the EGFR mut...

BACKGROUND The mechanisms behind increased fecal calprotectin (FC) in healthy relatives of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are unknown. Our aims were to explore if there is a subclinical inflammation with increased neutrophil activity in healthy twin siblings in discordant twin pairs with IBD and to assess the influence of genetics in this context. METHODS Nuclear factor kappa ...

We investigated age-related EBV(+) B-cell lymphoproliferations in the Western population. The clinical features, histology, immunophenotype, EBV-encoded RNA in situ hybridization, and clonality by PCR of T-cell receptor gamma and immunoglobulin genes were categorized in 122 EBV(+) lesions as follows: (1) reactive lymphoid hyperplasia; (2) polymorphic extranodal or (3) polymorphic nodal lymphopr...