A lateral position (LP) during sleep is effective in reducing sleep disorder symptoms in mild or moderate sleep apnea patients. However, the effect of head and shoulder posture in LP on reducing sleep disorders has not been reported. In this study, effective sleeping positions and a combination of sleep position determinants were evaluated with respect to their ability to reduce snoring and apn...

to investigate the effect of different amounts of fe and mn on qualitative and quantitative traits of forage maize (zea mays l.) hybrid single cross 704, an experiment was conducted as a factorial in a randomized complete block design with 16 treatments and three replications at qaneat city (southern khorasan province) in 2010. treatments consisted of 4 levels of feso4 (no fertilizer as control...

in other to evaluate the effects of nitroxin biofertilizer and different levels of nitrogen fertilizer, on yield and yield components of winter wheat (triticum aestivum), a field experiment was conducted in research station, college of agriculture, ferdowsi university of mashhad in 2009-2010. the experiment was conducted as a factorial arrangement based on completely randomized block design wit...

OBJECTIVE Serum YKL-40 plays roles in inflammatory and vascular processes. Our aim was to evaluate serum YKL-40 levels in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and to investigate their potential relationship with arterial stiffness based on carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (CF-PWV). METHODS Forty-three patients with AS and 41 healthy controls with no history or current signs of cardiov...

The present study examined whether 20-HETE production is reduced in the renal vasculature and whether this impairs myogenic or tubuloglomerular feedback (TGF) responses of the afferent arteriole (Af-Art). The production of 20-HETE was 73% lower in renal microvessels of Dahl salt-sensitive rats (SS) rats than in SS.5(BN) rats, in which chromosome 5 from the Brown Norway (BN) rat containing the C...

A field experiment was conducted to find out the effect of conjoint application sewage sludge (SS) and fertilizers on yield rice-wheat cropping system using a randomized block design. The grain ranged between 24.99 ± 4.24 66.32 2.58 q ha-1 22.50 0.55 50.37 1.07 in Ist year grown rice wheat, respectively. Among all treatments, T3 (100% recommended dose fertilizer (RDF) + 30 t SS) recorded signif...

Fertilization is widely acknowledged as being an essential practice to improve forest productivity in ecosystems. However, too little consideration has been given the taxonomic and functional compositions of rhizosphere soil microbes their interactions with root exudates under different fertilizer regimes plantations. Here, we investigated effects four typical (CK, no fertilizer; CF, compound O...

The present study tested the hypothesis that the Dahl SS (salt-sensitive) rat has vascular dysfunction due, in part, to the up-regulation of the CYP4A/20-HETE (cytochrome P450 ω-hydroxylase 4A)/20-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid) system. To assess the role of vascular 20-HETE, SS rats were compared with SS-5(BN) consomic rats, carrying CYP4A alleles on chromosome 5 from the normotensive BN (Brown ...