background: hypertension is one of the most important, non-contagious diseases. every year many people either die or suffer from it. therefore, the first step is to screen prehypertensive people and change the manner of their life style. nowadays, prayer in complementary alternative medicine (cam) is known as an important factor in changing people's lives. this study is done with the goal of de...

582 It is estimated that >140 million people live above 2500 m in various regions of the world. There are many challenges to living at high altitude, but chronic exposure to alveolar hypoxia is prominent among them. Inspired Po 2 falls from ≈150 mm Hg at sea level to ≈100 mm Hg at 3000 m and 43 mm Hg on the summit of Everest (8400 m). The body responds by hyperventilating, increasing resting he...

Erythropoietin or colony-stimulating factor, or both, were added to rat or mouse marrow cell cultures, and the responses to each inducer were measured. Colony-stimulating factor caused the suppression of erythropoietin-stimulated hemoglobin synthesis, and erythropoietin caused the suppression of the granulocyte-macrophage colony formation that is dependent on colony-stimulating factor. The exte...

Oncostatin M (OM) is structurally and functionally related to a subclass of hematopoietic cytokines including leukemia-inhibitory factor (LIF), ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF), granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF), and interleukin-6 (IL-6). Using human endothelial cells (HEC) as a model for cytokine regulation of hematopoietic growth factor expression, we tested OM as an inducer of ...