Although purinergic compounds are widely involved in the intra- and intercellular communication of the nervous system, little is known of their involvement in the growth and regeneration of neuronal connections. In dissociated cultures, the addition of adenosine or guanosine in the low micromolar range induced goldfish retinal ganglion cells to extend lengthy neurites and express the growth-ass...

Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) subclass pattern B is characterized by a predominance of small, dense LDL particles (LDL peak particle size < or = 255 A), increased plasma triglyceride (TG) levels, reduced high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels, and glucose intolerance. This study tested the hypothesis that there are differences in the regulation of TG and HDL metabolism by insulin in ...

Introduction: 192Ir is one of the important sources frequently used in brachytherapy. Up to now, a lot of commercial models of this source have been made which Ir-192 has been recently added to them. The aim of the present study is to determine the dosimetric parameters of this new source model based on the recommendations of TG-43(U1) protocol using Monte Carlo simulation tech...

introduction: colonoscopy is an invasive method that is painful for patient especially for children. the objective of this research was investigation of the effect of supermint oral drop (peppermint essence) on the patient and colonoscopist group satisfaction during colonoscopy.    materials and methods: one hundred and one patient&apos;s candidate for colonoscopy was randomly divided into two ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Previous evidences have shown the presence of a prolonged and exaggerated postprandial response in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and its relation with an increase of cardiovascular risk. However, the response in prediabetes population has not been established. The objective was to analyze the degree of postprandial lipemia response in the CORDIOPREV clinical trial (NCT00924937...

Objective(s): In clinical practice, approximately 10-25% of post-surgical differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) patients with high serum thyroglobulin (Tg) and negative 131I whole-body scan (WBS) have poor prognosis due to recurrent or metastatic lesions after radioactive iodine treatment. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the value of 18F-FDG PET/CT scan in DTC patients with high seru...

Annotated Reviews of Fifty Significant Trauma Articles from the Past Year 10 SUMMARY OF: Sagi HC, Shah AR, Sanders RW. The Functional Consequence of Syndesmotic Joint Malreduction at a Minimum 2-Year Follow-up. J Orthop Trauma. 2012 Jul;26(7):439-43 and Dikos GD, Heisler J, Choplin RH, Weber TG. Normal Tibiofibular Relationships at the Syndesmosis on Axial CT Imaging. J Orthop Trauma. 2012 Jul;...

The use of internal radiation from a gamma source in brachytherapy has been developing for several decades as a beneficial tool in the field of radiation therapy in medical physics. Brachytherapy has proved to be efficient for the treatment of tumors in a variety of organs that have different volumes and shapes. The use of brachytherapy treatment is based mainly on the AAPM protocol (TG-43) pub...