caspian kutum, rutilus frisii kutum, is one of the most commercially important fish species in the caspian sea, but there are few reports about the endocrinology of induced spawning in this fish. in the present study, 54 individuals of female broodstocks of kutum were studied for quantity and quality of propagation index, during march and april 2007. hormone treatments include: lhrh-a2 (1 ?g kg...

The effects of three premedication regimens were compared in 45 healthy patients in whom anaesthesia was induced with diprivan 2 mgkg" I.V Premedication with diazepam 10 mg orally and droperidol 2.5-5 Omg and piritramide 7.5-15.0 mg i.m. resulted in less pain on injection and a more profound sleep from dipnvan than premedicanon with diazepam 10 mg orally or no premedication. No differences in s...

Environmental pollution with heavy metals is a global disaster that is related tohuman activities. This study was conducted to determine the extent of heavy metalsaccumulation by plant species in Lia industrial city (Qazvin, Iran) and to investigate theremediative capacity of native plant species grown in the contaminated soils. Soil andindustrial wastewater sampling was done radially along tra...

The effectiveness of 1,2-dimethyl-3-hydroxypyrid-4-one (Ll) in increasing iron excretion in iron-loaded patients improved the propsects for replacing desferrioxamine (DF) with an oral chelating drug.’,’ L1 belongs to a new group of iron chelators, the a-ketohydroxypyridines (KHP); which are cheap to p ~ e p a r e ~ . ~ and orally active. Recently, a detailed article by Porter et al.’ on in vivo...

In 14 patients undergoing open-heart operations the haemodynamic effects of diazepam 0.4 mgkg(-1) followed by ketamine 2 mg kg(-1) were studied. In eight patients undergoing coronary bypass surgery, the mean arterial pressure decreased significantly after diazepam from 90.3 +/-7.4 (SEM) to 78.0 +/-5.0 mm Hg (P less than 0.05). However, no changes occurred in six patients undergoing valve replac...