labor pain is a cause of stress and suffering; for which many women seek methods to relieve this pain. the aim of this study was to determine the effect of relaxation techniques on pain relief during labor. this study was carried out on 62 pregnant women referred to fatemieh hospital (hamadan, iran) during their labor. they were selected using convenience sampling and were divided randomly in t...

the effect of odonthobuthos doriae (o.d) scorpion venom at 0/3, 1 and 3, 10 µg/ml concentrations were investigated on nerve-muscle transmission, using the twitch tension technique. a concentration of 0.3 µg/ml caused a small change in the twitch height in response to indirect muscle stimulation, but higher concentrations (1, 3, 10 µg/ml) caused a transient augmentation in twitch response follow...

Most mutants of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) that cause severe symptoms of cystic fibrosis do not reach the cell surface because they are defective in folding. Many CFTR folding mutants, however, including the DeltaF508 mutant found in more than 90% of cystic fibrosis patients, are potentially functional at the cell surface if they can be induced to fold correc...