In this study, the possible involvement of L-type voltage-operated calcium channels in the vasorelaxant effect of the flavonoid quercetin was investigated, using the isolated aortic rings from normal male rats. Addition of quercetin (0.1 µM-1 mM) caused a significant dose-dependent relaxation of noradrenaline (NA)- and KCl-preconstricted rings and nifedipine attenuated this response, especially...

Ensuring that pregnant women are delivering in a health facility and are attended to by skilled birth attendants is critical to reducing maternal and infant morbidity and mortality. This study sought to determine the associations between male involvement in antenatal care (ANC) services and pregnant women delivering at health facilities and being attended to by skilled birth attendants as well ...

BACKGROUND Men's participation is crucial to the success of family planning programs and women's empowerment and associated with better outcomes in reproductive health such as contraceptive acceptance and continuation, and safer sexual behaviors. Limited choice and access to methods, attitudes of men towards family planning, perceived fear of side-effects, poor quality of available services, cu...

conclusions religiosity has been used as a coping mechanism among blacks. religiosity may also be related to stress regulation among black youth. future studies need to test complex associations between race, sex, religiosity, chronic stress, coping, and function of hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (hpa). it is not known whether male black youth who are and those who are not religious differently ...

Sarcoidosis is a multi-system disease which rarely involves the upper respiratory tract, leading to hoarseness, dysphagia, laryngeal paralysis, and upper airway obstruction. The Waldeyer's ring involvement in sarcoidosis is also very rare. In this article, we report a 32-year-old male case in whom a nasopharyngeal mass was detected based on the Waldeyer's ring involvement due to sarcoidosis.

Leprosy is characterised by a chronic granulomatous inflammation of the skin and peripheral nerves. Dissemination of the lepra bacilli may cause involvement of other tissues as well. We describe an unusual case of the granulomatous involvement of the nipple-areola complex in a 35-year-old male consequent to borderline-lepromatous leprosy.

Hereditary amyloid polyneuropathies are rare, heterogeneous group of autosomal dominant disorders and deserve special attention because of its rare presentation, multisystem involvement and significant therapeutic implications if diagnosed early. We report a male patient of hereditary amyloid polyneuropathy from North West India with peripheral nerve, autonomic nervous system, vitreous and card...

Behcet's disease (BD) is a chronic inflammatory disease affecting blood vessels throughout the body mainly veins and clinically characterized by oro-genital aphthae ,ophthalmologic involvement ,cutaneous lesions ,articular, neurological involvement and less commonly by gastrointestinal manifestations which may have dreadful complications. Here we report a case of 58 year male with gastrointesti...

Although studies have assessed male involvement in birth preparedness and complication readiness, little is known about their involvement after the onset of maternal near miss complications. This information is important in developing appropriate strategies for male involvement in accessing emergency obstetric care (EmOC) in order to reduce Uganda’s high maternal mortality ratio. The study exam...