aim of this study is to determine the risk of adverse pregnancy outcome by maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein (msafp) level. we followed 295 pregnant women from msafp screening in the 14th to 22th week of gestation until the end of pregnancy and information on pregnancy outcome have been recorded in questionnaires. of 295 pregnant women, 270 had term labor and 25 had preterm labor. the frequencie...

objectives we aimed to investigate whether there is renal injury and its relationship with oxidative stress after intraperitoneal injection of α-ama in mice experimental poisoning models. materials and methods there were 37 male balb/c laboratory mice treated with α-ama, according to the study groups: control group (n = 7); low dose (0.2 mg/kg) (n = 10); moderate dose (0.6 mg/kg) (n = 10), and ...

conclusions the current report isolates, characterizes, and demonstrates the novel heat-adapted amylase-producing bacteria ss1, ss2 and ss3 from taptapani hot spring, indicating its potentiality and stability under acidic conditions. materials and methods bacterial strains were isolated by dilution plating method from the water samples collected from taptapani hot spring, odisha and screened fo...

for a ring endomorphism $alpha$ and an $alpha$-derivation $delta$, we introduce a concept, so called skew $pi$-armendariz ring, that is a generalization of both $pi$-armendariz rings, and $(alpha,delta)$-compatible skew armendariz rings. we first observe the basic properties of skew $pi$-armendariz rings, and extend the class of skew $pi$-armendariz rings through various ring extensions. we nex...

For a positive real number $\alpha$, let $\mathbb{N}_0[\alpha,\alpha^{-1}]$ be the semiring of all numbers $f(\alpha)$ for $f(x)$ lying in $\mathbb{N}_0[x,x^{-1}]$, which is Laurent polynomials over set nonnegative integers $\mathbb{N}_0$. In this paper, we study various factorization properties additive structure $\mathbb{N}_0[\alpha, \alpha^{-1}]$. We characterize when \alpha^{-1}]$ atomic. T...

background: periodontitis and rheumatoid arthritis (ra) share a number of clinical and pathologic features, one of which is the presence of the tumor necrosis factor alpha (tnf-α)-induced bone resorption that is involved in the pathogenesis of both. objectives: to investigate the effect of tnf-α blockade on periodontal conditions in patients with active ra. method: the periodontal statuses of 3...

background: use of hormone replacement therapy (hrt) may increase the risk of adult-onset asthma in women. various in vitro studies have reported that estradiol stimulates human mast cell lines causing release of allergic mediators which was not observed in estrogen receptor-alpha (er-alpha) knockout mice. thus, estrogen might be a key element in occurrence of asthma. in the present study, we p...

introduction increase in alpha band is observed when blood perfusion in frontal area of head decreases. the present study evaluated some changes in the alpha band particularly, alpha-1 of frontal and central areas of the head, when several areas were exposed simultaneously to magnetic field. materials and methods five points of head (f3, f4, cz, t3, and t4) of twenty healthy male participants w...