background: the aim of this study was to determine oxidative stress (os) parameters after testicular torsion/detorsion in adult rats. materials and methods: in this experimental study, male adult wistar rats were divided into four groups, each consisting of seven animals: group i-one hour right testicular torsion with subsequent orchiectomy, group ii-one hour right testicular torsion followed b...

background: synthetic radio-protective agents like aminothiols are toxic and fda approved agent amifostine is no exception. some ayurvedic herbs have shown radioprotective potential. this study was carried out to test and compare the radioprotective potential of curcuma longa (cl) tinospora cordifolia (tc), zizyphus mauritiana (zm) and ocimum sanctum (os) against 2gy gamma irradiation in swiss ...

To an unappreciated degree, research both in operating systems and their programming languages has been severely hampered by the lack of cleanly reusable code providing mundane low-level OS infrastructure such as bootstrapcode and device drivers. The Flux OS Toolkit solves this problem by providing a set of clean, well-documented components. These components can be used as basic buildingblocks ...

Background: Reduced survival and impaired quality of life of the children affected by cancers is one of the most important health problems. In this study, 5-year survival of children affected with Central nervous system (CNS) tumors and its related factors were evaluated. Materials and Methods: Participants in this historical cohort study consisted of 161children with mean age of diagnosis 72 ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Patients with Laron syndrome have an inborn growth hormone resistance. We investigated abnormalities in the upper airways and cervical spine in patients with Laron syndrome. METHODS We prospectively examined 11 patients (one child aged 9 years and 10 adults aged 36-68 years), 10 of whom underwent MR imaging of the spine or head; nine, radiography of the cervical spine; ...

Objectives: to present currently available evidence to verify the association between metabolic syndrome and quality of life. Method: Cochrane Library, EMBASE, Medline and LILACS databases were studied for all studies investigating the association with metabolic syndrome and quality of life. Two blinded reviewers extracted data and one more was chosen in case of doubt. Results: a total of 3...

Introduction Alcohol consumed during pregnancy freely crosses the placental barrier and constitutes a significant risk for many adverse outcomes globally defined Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) up to the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS). Many teratogenic mechanisms have been proposed but, to date, one of the most studied and understood is the alcohol-related Oxidative Stress (OS). Alcohol-r...

Purpose: Our study aims to evaluate the efficacy of hyaluronic acid (HA) on interstitial cystitis patients admitted to our clinic with the diagnosis of bladder pain syndrome/interstitial cystitis (BPS/IC). Material and methods: The preand post-treatment symptom scores the severity of symptoms, and cystoscopic and pathologic findings of 23 patients diagnosed with BPS/IC were prospectively evalua...