Stimulation of the delta(1)-opioid receptor has been shown to trigger ischemic preconditioning (IPC). Additionally, myocardial ischemia/reperfusion induces the activation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK). Therefore, we examined the role of ERK in acute cardioprotection induced by delta(1)-opioid receptor stimulation or IPC. Infarct size (IS) was expressed as a percentage of the ar...

Background: Reproductive variables may play an important role on the correlation between irrational parenthood cognition (IPC) and destructive behaviors of infertile couple. Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the correlation between IPC and destructive behaviors by reproductive variables in primary infertile women. Methods: The study was descriptive-analytic. 183 cases of prim...

OBJECTIVE Recent studies indicate that the innate immune system is not only triggered by exogenous pathogens and pollutants, but also by endogenous danger signals released during ischemia and necrosis. As triggers for the innate immune NLRP3 inflammasome protein complex appear to overlap with those for cardiac ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) and ischemic preconditioning (IPC), we explored the possib...

BACKGROUND During renal transplantation, the kidney remains without blood flow for a period of time. The following reperfusion of this ischemic kidney causes functional and structural injury. Formation of oxygen-derived free radicals (OFR) and subsequent lipid peroxidation (LP) has been implicated as the causative factors of these injuries. Vitamin E is known to be the main endogenous antioxida...

BACKGROUND Effective and efficient interprofessional collaboration (IPC) is needed between departments in a healthcare setting. Although Japanese physicians are expected to provide leadership in IPC, it has been suggested that their perception of IPC is more negative than among other healthcare professionals. The purpose of this study was to clarify Japanese physician's perceptions of IPC and w...

Although IPC has become really fast it is still too slow on certain processors. Two examples motivating even faster IPC, critical sections in real-time applications and multi-threaded servers, are briefly discussed below. Critical sections in real-time applications suffer from the wellknown priority-inversion problem [7]. Multiple solutions have been proposed, e.g. priority inheritance (which i...

We identify the universal n-model of the negation-free fragment of the intuitionistic propositional calculus IPC. We denote it by U(n) and show that it is isomorphic to a generated submodel of the universal n-model of IPC, which is denoted by U(n). We show that this close resemblance makes U(n) mirror many properties of U(n). Finally, using U(n), we give an alternative proof of Jankov’s Theorem...

We study the n-universal model of the [∨,∧,→]-fragment of the intuitionistic propositional calculus IPC. We denote it by U(n) and show that it is isomorphic to a generated submodel of the n-universal model of IPC, which is denoted by U(n). We show that this close resemblance makes U(n) mirror many properties of U(n). Using U(n), we give an alternative proof of Jankov’s theorem stating that the ...