OBJECTIVE To compare the efficacy of intraturbinate monopolar cautery, bipolar cautery, high frequency monopolar and high frequency bipolar cautery in inferior turbinate hypertrophy. STUDY DESIGN Prospective randomized single blinded clinical study METHOD The study comprised of 80 patients divided in 4 groups each of 20 patients who underwent monopolar cautery, Bipolar cautery, high frequen...

A reduction in sucrose and saccharine consumption following chronic stress is reported for the rat. This deficit may be related to consummatory deficits seen in endogenous depression. To further examine this state pharmacologically, stressed rats were treated with the antidepressant imipramine. Despite a general absence of appetitive effects (or in some cases mild anorexia) imipramine significa...

In one experiment using conditioned taste aversion and the unconditioned stimulus (US) preexposure procedure, one group of rats was given LiCl exposure for 3 days, whereas two other groups received saline. Following this phase, all groups were given a novel flavour (saccharine) to drink following either LiCl (group preexposed and one of the control groups) or saline injections (the remaining co...