The delivery of sterile products to the sterile field is essential to perioperative practice. The use of protective packaging for sterilized items is crucial to helping ensure that patients receive sterile items for surgical procedures. AORN's "Recommended practices for selection and use of packaging systems for sterilization" offers guidance to perioperative team members in evaluating, selecti...

The surface sterilized grains of Triticum aestivum (L.) cv. HD2204 were soaked in graded concentration (10–10, 10–8 or 10–6) of 28-homobrassinolide (HBR), for 8 h. These pre-treated grains were transferred to sterilized petriplates, lined with filter paper moistened with double distilled water in a B.O.D. incubator, fixed at 25°C. The samples were removed 12, 18 and 24 h of their initial soakin...

The primary hypothesis for successful exotic plant invasions is that the invaders have escaped the specialist consumers that control them (Enemy Release Hypothesis). However, few studies have rigorously tested this assertion with biogeographical experiments or considered the effects of soil organisms. We tested the Enemy Release Hypothesis and the enhanced role of mutualisms by comparing densit...

Introduction: Dental turbine chamber is a suitable reservoir for living microorganisms, so chamber sterilization is necessary for reducing cross contamination risk. On the other hand, in non-vacuum autoclaves, steam penetration into turbine chamber is doubtful, while they are still in use in dental clinics. In this study, performance of small non-vacuum autoclave in turbine chamber sterilizatio...