Histopathological changes were studied in Swiss albino mice (N:36) which were challenged with the South Indian local strain of Trypanosoma evansi. Each animal was infected with 5×105 trypanosomes intraperitoneally. The animals were examined daily for development of clinical signs and infection status by wet blood-fi lms made from the tail veins. The infected mice were dull and depressed from tw...

Both water movement and nitrate leaching in structured soils are strongly in ̄uenced by the nature of the macro-porosity. That macro-porosity can however also be manipulated by choice of tillage operations. In order to investigate the potential impacts of tillage on rates of nitrate leaching from structured soils, a model speci®c to these soils, CRACK-NP was developed. The model, its application...

Currently, one of the main threats to public health is diabetes mellitus. Its most detrimental complication is diabetic nephropathy (DN), a clinical syndrome associated with kidney damage and an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Irrespective of the type of diabetes, DN follows a well-known temporal course. The earliest detectable signs are microalbuminuria and histopathological changes ...

interest the recent randomized controlled trial comparing sustained low-effi ciency dialysis using a single-pass batch dialysis system (SLED-BD) with continuous veno-venous hemofi ltration (CVVH) [1]. I congratulate the authors on their undertaking but have serious concerns regarding the majority of their analysis. After each table at the end of the paper, the authors report the use of a ‘one-t...

Godel's translation of intuitionistic formulas into modal ones provides the well-known embedding of intermediate logics into extensions of Lewis' system S4, which re ects and sometimes preserves such properties as decidability, Kripke completeness, the nite model property. In this paper we establish a similar relationship between intuitionistic modal logics and classical bimodal logics. We als...

Let D be a vector bundle-valued diierential operator with positive deenite leading symbol on a compact, Riemannian manifold. Asymptotic expansions of the kernel function and L 2 trace of the heat operator e ?tD , t > 0, naturally lead to sequences of homogeneous local and global scalar invariants a n (x; D), a n (D) R a n (x; D), n 2 N. Within each ho-mogeneity class of local invariants, there ...

Let D be a second-order diierential operator with leading symbol given by the metric tensor on a compact Riemannian manifold. The asymptotics of the heat kernel based on D are given by homogeneous, invariant, local formulas. Within the set of allowable expressions of a given homogeneity there is a ltration by degree, in which elements of the smallest class have the highest degree. Modulo quadra...

This work demonstrates the synthesis, characterization and application of a hyperbranched polyethyleneimine/polysulfone (HPEI/PSf) thin fi lm composite (TFC) membrane. The membrane was accessed via an interfacial polymerization of trimesoyl chloride and HPEI. The membrane samples were characterized by Fourier Transform Infrared-Attenuated Total Refl ectance (FTIR-ATR) s...

Oxidizing agents play a major role in the pathogenesis of liver diseases. Pistacia vera (P. vera), contains many antioxidant substances including coenzyme 10, vitamin E and beta-carotene. The current study was designed to evaluate the probable effects of P. vera on carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)-induced hepatotoxicity in male rats. Frothy male Wistar rats were randomly divided into five groups inc...

Journal of Lipid Research Volume 54, 2013 3303 Copyright © 2013 by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc. Globoid cell leukodystrophy (GLD) is a rapidly progressing pediatric neurodegenerative disease caused by missing or dysfunctional lysosomal enzyme galactosylceramidase (GALC). Hallmarks of this disease include macrophage (globoid cell) infi ltration into the brain...