PURPOSE To investigate topographic optic disc changes after surgical intraocular pressure (IOP) reduction in adults with open angle glaucoma (OAG). METHODS Optic discs of patients with advanced primary open angle or exfoliation glaucoma were imaged using optical coherence tomography within 1 week before trabeculectomy. Patients were rescanned 1 week, 1 month, and 1 year after surgery. Maximum...

Enzymatic catalysis is considered to be among the most environmental friendly processes for the synthesis of fine chemicals. In this study, lipase from Thermomyces lanuginosus (Lecitase Ultra™) was used to catalyze the synthesis of flavor esters, i.e., methyl butanoate and methyl benzoate by esterification of the acids with methanol in a microfluidic system. Maximum reaction rates of 195 and 11...

this study was conducted to evaluate the quality of the red flesh apples and golab cultivars. two iranian red flesh apples from shahroud and four golab cultivars as well as ‘gala’ as control from damavand were selected in summer 2012. fruit physical characteristics including length, diameter, fresh weight and dry weight, firmness, color and their parameters were evaluated for each cultivar. the...

In this paper, we present a multi-resolution mode CMOS image sensor (CIS) for intelligent surveillance system (ISS) applications. A low column fixed-pattern noise (CFPN) comparator is proposed in 8-bit two-step single-slope analog-to-digital converter (TSSS ADC) for the CIS that supports normal, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, and 1/64 mode of pixel resolution. We show that the scaled-resolution ima...

The total antioxidant activities of seven different vegetables were measured by FRAP method together with their estimation of total phenolic content by Folin-Ciocalteau method. Coriander and tomato belonged to high antioxidant activity group. In the medium group; capsicum, carrot and onion scored anti-oxidant activity of 5.65, 3.46 and 4.24 μ M Fe2+ /g FW respectively. Cucumber and radish were ...

This experiment was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of different levels of Echinacea (Echinacea purpurea) methanol extract on the growth performances (final weight (FW), daily growth ratio (DGR), feed conversion rate (FCR), voluntary feed intake (VFI) and protein efficiency ratio (PER) and some of hematological parameters (hemoglobin (Hb), hematocrit (Hct), red blood cell (RBC) and white blo...

To evaluate genetic variation of wheat (Triticum aestivum) affected by heat and drought stress on eight Australian wheat genotypes that are parents of Doubled Haploid (HD) mapping populations at the vegetative stage, the water stress experiment was conducted at 65% field capacity in growth room. Heat stress experiment was conducted in the research field under irrigation over summer. Result show...

Increased activity of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and hypersecretion of corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) are known to be important factors in pathogenesis of some stress-related diseases. Some neurosteroids exert anxiolytic and antidepressant effects probably by inhibition of HPA axis activity. The aim of our study was to find out if neurosteroids can directly affect human CR...

The objective of this present study was to analyse and compare the total antioxidant activity and radical scavenging capacity of selected fruits and vegetables from south India. The selected fruits and vegetables such as mulberries, papaya, red grapes, mango, guava, tomato, red onion, red cauliflower, carrot and beetroot were used in this study. The selected fruits and vegetables showed a high ...