abstract- the effects of iron (fe) and zinc (zn) treatments on the growth and nutrient composition of chickpea were studied in a greenhouse experiment arranged in a completely randomized design. while the application of fe decreased mean shoot dry weight of chickpea, that of zn had no significant effect on chickpea shoot dry weight. increasing fe levels drastically decreased mn concentration an...

Intestinal ischemia-reperfusion is associated with the generation of reactive oxygen metabolites as well as remote, oxidant-mediated lung injury. Oxidants elicit endothelial redox imbalance and loss of vascular integrity by disorganizing several junctional proteins that contribute to the maintenance and regulation of the endothelial barrier. To determine the specific effect of redox imbalance o...

OBJECTIVES Visuo-spatial neglect and vestibular disorders have common clinical findings and involve the same cortical areas. We questioned (1) whether visuo-spatial hemineglect is not only a disorder of spatial attention but may also reflect a disorder of higher cortical vestibular function and (2) whether a vestibular tone imbalance due to an acute peripheral dysfunction can also cause symptom...

Left-hemiparetic patients show predominant postural imbalance as compared to right-hemiparetic patients. The right hemisphere is crucial for generating internal maps used for perceptual and premotor processing of spatial information. Predominant postural imbalance with right-brain damage could thus result from a distortion of an internal postural map. Well-known manifestations of distorted inte...

there is no doubt that breast-feeding is the best and safest way of feeding infants. physiological weight loss occurs in the first two or three days of life, and the achievement of birth weight is expected towards the end of the first week. hypernatremic dehydration may occur in exclusively breast-fed infants if milk supply is low during these first few days. it is not because of the high sodiu...