PURPOSE To prospectively evaluate peri-implant bone and soft tissue dimension changes around adjacent implants placed at different horizontal interimplant distances. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty partially edentulous patients, who underwent rehabilitation with two adjacent implant-supported crowns as part of their treatment plan, were assigned to three groups based on their prosthetic needs. P...

Tobacco stems contain 56.10% cellulose content, 15.11% lignin, 22.44% hemicellulose, and 44.61% total organic carbon, which can be used as a source of energy or fuel. This study aimed to utilize tobacco in briquette form alternative energy. The materials this were stem waste, rice husk, wood charcoal, coconut shell. treatments consisted T1 (100% stems), T2 (80% + 20% shell), T3 husk), T4 (33.33...

Study Objective: To observe the effect of dexmedetomidine (DEX) on T-lymphocyte subsets and natural killer (NK) cells in the peripheral blood of perioperative patients with colorectal cancer. Design: A random double-blind control clinical study. Setting: A university hospital. Patients: Forty patients with colorectal cancer, ASA I-П. Interventions: All patients were randomly divided into a DEX ...

The glucosinolate autolysis products of crushed seeds of DesclIrainia sophia L. (khakeshi) and Brassica napus L. (shelghem) were administered orally to rats in doses representing 8,16 and 32 gm seeds/kg body weight/day at intervals of 10, 20 and sometimes 30 days. Serum T3 and T4 concentrations were reduced in 10 day•autolysate treated animals in a similar fashion to that found with methim...

BACKGROUND Data suggest symptoms of hypothyroidism persist in 5-10% of levothyroxine (L-T4)-treated hypothyroid patients with normal serum thyrotrophin (TSH). The use of L-T4 + liothyronine (L-T3) combination therapy in such patients is controversial. The ETA nominated a task force to review the topic and formulate guidelines in this area. METHODS Task force members developed a list of releva...

Pre-eclampsia is defined as a triad of hypertension, edema and proteinuria. It usually occurs after 20 weeks of gestation producing cardiovascular, hematological, endocrinological and biochemical changes. It is a well recognized cause of maternal & fetal morbidity & mortality. A state of hypothyroxinemia exists in normal pregnancy, which is more pronounced in pre-eclampsia. The mechanism of hyp...

The goal of this study was to determine whether galanin affects the mean plasma concentrations of metabolic parameters such as thyroxine (T4), triiodothyronine (T3), growth hormone (GH), insulin, glucagon, glucose, fatty acid and urea in goats fed diets differing in energy content. Sixteen goats were randomly divided into 4 groups. Animals in groups 1 and 2 were fed 100% and animals in groups 3...

Thyroid hormones (THs) exert marked effects on cardiac function that result from direct effects of the hormones on the cardiac myocyte as well as effects on the peripheral vasculature.1 The latter effect is best demonstrated by the characteristically high systemic vascular resistance (SVR) observed in patients (and experimental animals) with hypothyroidism, which is rapidly reversed with TH tre...

The present study investigates whether transplantation of NSCs treated with T3 alone (T3/NSCs), or in conjunction with GDNF gene (GDNF-T3/NSCs), provides a better therapeutic effect than NSCs for chronic EAE. EAE rats were, respectively, injected with NSCs, T3/NSCs, GDNF-T3/NSCs, and saline at 10 days and sacrificed at 60 days after EAE immunization. The three cell grafted groups showed a signi...