BACKGROUND In this study, the effects of olmesartan therapy on asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA), symmetric dimethylarginine (SDMA), L-arginine and inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) levels were investigated in patients undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass. METHODS Patients were randomly allocated to two groups, control and olmesartan. Olmesartan was administered 30 mg once a day beginning ...

Case report. In late 2009, a 2.5-year-old boy (child 1) was H1N1 vaccinated with H1N1 pandemic influenza vaccine (Pandemrix; GlaxoSmithKline, London, United Kingdom). He had a history of asthma/allergies and sleep talking/sleepwalking. Medio August 2013, he developed severe sleepiness, took 2–4 naps/day, and experienced episodes of sleep paralysis. We examined him primo September 2013 when the ...

Previous studies have demonstrated that short-term oral iodide administration, in doses ranging from 1500 micrograms to 250 mg/day, has an inhibitory effect on thyroid hormone secretion in normal men. As iodide intake in the USA may be as high as 800 micrograms/d, we investigated the effects of very low dose iodide supplementation on thyroid function. Thirty normal men aged 22-40 years were ran...

This study was carried out to evaluate the effect of high dietary energy as dry fat and protected methionine on growth efficacy, feed intake and efficiency and carcass parameters of Awassi lambs during finishing stage. Twenty four Awassi lambs (3-4 months old) were distributed equally into four treatments groups as follow: Control (NRC requirements); T1 (High energy 3.0 Mcal ME/kg); T2 (high en...

The effect of fairy shrimp “branchoneta” as the first exogenous feed for tambaqui postlarvae was evaluated. A hundred and eighty larvae were distributed in 12 aquariums, containing 1.5L water stocking density 10 per liter. trials lasted 20 days submitted to three diets (T1: Commercial feed, T2: branchoneta, T3: with branchoneta), a completely randomized design four replicates each treatment. Du...

Filial imprinting in precocial birds is a useful model for studying early learning and cognitive development, as it is characterized by a well-defined sensitive or critical period. We recently showed that the thyroid hormone 3,5,3'-triiodothyronine (T3) determines the onset of the sensitive period. Moreover, exogenous injection of T3 into the intermediate medial mesopallium (IMM) region (analog...

Feeding trial was conducted on sixty day-old Anak broiler chicks of average weight of 204.11+3.29g for eight weeks to evaluate the effect of sun-dried paw-paw leaf meal (PLM) on their growth performance as well as proximate composition analysis on the PLM. The birds were assigned to four treatment diets comprising T1 (0% PLM), T2 (5% PLM), T3 (10% PLM) and T4 (15% PLM) in a completely randomize...