It has been shown that pre-test systemic administration of morphine was able to reverse memory impairment induced by pre- or post-training morphine in an inhibitory avoidance paradigm. Since the recall of the learned information is possible only if the subject is in the same state as during the encoding phase, this kind of learning is known as state-dependent learning. Several drugs have been d...

background: glutamine supplementation to the pre-starter diet of broiler chicks could improve their performance during the first week of post-hatch. objectives: this experiment was conducted to evaluate the influence of glutamine levels in the pre-starter diet on intestinal mucosa morphology and performance of broiler chicks. method: a total of 160 ross 308, one-day old broilers were used in a ...

background:learning the key issues in providing nursing care requires new instructional strategies that prevent superficial learning of students and improve meaningful and high level learning in them. the aim of this study was to determine effect of teaching the nursing process in composing method on nursing students and their clinical learning. methods: in a quasi-experimental study with two g...

background: the therapeutic administration of 131i for thyroid remnant ablation and for metastases comes up with some adverse effects. this study was conducted to investigate whether single high dose radioiodine therapy affects lacrimal gland functions or not. materials and methods: seventy-eight eyes of 39 patients, who were diagnosed as differentiated thyroid carcinoma, were objectively teste...

Background: hospital infections affect about 6% of hospitalised patients in Europe; the hands healthcare workers, who are front-line staff and frequently exposed to infected contaminated surfaces, primary source microbial transmission. Thus, hand washing procedures essential lowering risk occupational exposure infectious diseases, hospital-acquired infections, micro-organism cross-transmission....

Objective- To evaluate antinociceptive efficacy of pre- versus post-incisional morphine, tramadol and meloxicam using tail-flick test in an incisional model of pain in rats. Design- Prospective, randomized experimental study. Animals- Eighty, adult, male Wistar rats weighing 250–300 g. Procedures- Animals were randomly divided into eight groups to receive pre- or post-incisional (tail skin i...

aluminium determination was carried out in serum and dialysis fluid by a simple and reliable method of nameless atomic absorption with graphite furnace . . no preparatory procedures are required for water and dialysis fluid. in this method serum was mixed with 0.2% hno, to allow complete combustion of the samples in order to improve analytical precision. the method has a sensitivity of 15 pg an...