background: there is conflicting reports on the respiratory health effects of indoor risk factor exposure. the aim of this study was to assess the association of indoor environmental factors to pulmonary function in an adult population in zunyi city of southwest china. methods: between july and sep 2012, we conducted a cross-sectional survey of people aged ≥18 yr in 11 inner-city areas of zunyi...

chronic kidney disease (ckd) is an increasing cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. prospective data on risk factors for ckd are few. hypertension is one of the risk factors for ckd. in the past serum creatinine concentration was used as marker of kidney function but it proffers a late reflection of reduced glomerular filtration rate(gfr), which limits its ability to detect impaired kidne...

objective: the clinical use of cisplatin is highly restricted, because of its nephrotoxicity.in this study the protective effect of nigella sativa (n. sativa) against cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity was investigated in rats. materials and methods: in the current study, the effects of the administration of aqueous-ethanolic extract of n. sativa (100 and 200 mg/kg, bw) and vitamin e (100 mg/kg, ...

Diastolic phase of cardiac function is associated with lower arterial flow and hence higher concentration of intra arterially injected drug is achieved at the site of injection. It is herein postulated that drugs show higher efficacy when injected during the diastolic phase of cardiac function. It is also postulated that this benefit cannot be achieved when the drug is injected with higher rate...

In many industrialized areas, the highest concentration of particulate matter, as a major concern on public health, is being felt worldwide problem. Since the air pollution assessment and its evaluation with considering spatial dispersion analysis because of various factors are complex, in this paper, GIS-based modeling approach was utilized to zoning PM2.5 dispersion over Tehran, du...

in this work, several machine learning techniques are presented for nanofiltration modeling. according to the results, specific errors are defined. the rejection due to nanofiltration increases with pressure but decreases with increasing the concentration of chloride ion. methods of machine learning represent the rejection of nanofiltration as a function of concentration, ph, pressure and also ...

In the present research, the D-(+)-Glucose–confined water nanodroplets with mean size in the range of 6-11 nm were synthesized at D-(+)-Glucose different concentrations by AOT reverse micelles (RMs) method as a function of mass fraction of droplet (MFD) at the constant water-to-surfactant molar ratio ( W=40). The dynamic light scattering of the nano-sized water droplets containing the D-(+)-Glu...