conclusions abnormal transaminases and uric acid levels are seen in ahf patients. increased ast levels may be a predictor of the need for inotrope during hospital course in these patients. patients and methods a total of 100 patients (aged 16 - 90 years, 60% men) admitted with ahf were enrolled. lfts and uric acid levels were assessed on first day and before discharge, and patients were followe...

many findings point to the presence of a close relationship between the immune, endocrine and neurologic systems. for example the suppressive effects of β-human chorionic gonadotropin (β-hcg) on il-l production, the potentiative effect of enkephalins on lymphocyte functions and the suppressive effect of leuteinizing hormone (lh) on natural killer (nk) cell activities have been clearly establish...

the effects of dietary nucleotide (nt) were evaluated on some serum biochemical parameters and acute stress responses of the catfish (pangasianodon hypophthalmus). five experimental diets including 0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, and 1% nt were supplied to catfish fry for 10 weeks. at the end of the experiment, fish fed the control and 1% nt diets were subjected to handling and crowding stress. the results...

we shall give a lower estimate of harmonic‎ ‎functions of order greater than one in a half space‎, ‎which‎ ‎generalize the result obtained by b‎. ‎ya‎. ‎levin in a half plane‎.

the present study investigated serum cortisol in response to postpartum ovarian resumption and luteal function. postpartum ovarian resumption was detected based on a rise in progesterone (p4) concentrations during three weeks after calving. twenty two holstein cows in a semi-closed dairy farm in qena city, egypt were used. the study was carried out from late march to early june; the period char...

‎this paper deals with one problem that needs to be addressed in the emerging field known under the name computing with perceptions‎. ‎it is the problem of describing‎, ‎approximately‎, ‎a given fuzzy set in natural‎ ‎language‎. ‎this problem has lately been referred to as the problem of retranslation‎. ‎an approaches to ‎dealing with the retranslation problem is discussed in the paper‎, ‎that ...

let $(r,m)$ be a commutative noetherian local ring, $m$ a finitely generated $r$-module of dimension $d$, and let $i$ be an ideal of definition for $m$. in this paper, we extend cite[corollary 10(4)]{p} and also we show that if $m$ is a cohen-macaulay $r$-module and $d=2$, then $lambda(frac{widetilde{i^nm}}{jwidetilde{i^{n-1}m}})$ does not depend on $j$ for all $ngeq 1$, where $j$ is a minimal ...

endothelial dysfunction which is manifested by the loss of nitric oxide bioavailability, is an increasingly recognized cause of cardiac syndrome x (csx) and beta blockers are used for the treatment of this syndrome. thus, the aim of this study was to investigate effects of metoprolol, as a beta blocker, on endothelial function in csx patients. the study included 25 csx patients (20 female/ 5 ma...

in this paper, global uniform exponential stability of perturbed dynamical systemsis studied by using lyapunov techniques. the system presents a perturbation term which isbounded by an integrable function with the assumption that the nominal system is globallyuniformly exponentially stable. some examples in dimensional two are given to illustrate theapplicability of the main results.

background although the immunosuppressant cyclosporine (csa) is widely used after kidney transplantation over the long term, there is still no firm consensus on the best way to monitor of csa blood levels. objectives cyclosporine (csa) assay is critical for the management of renal transplant recipients due to inter– and intra–patient variation in csa absorption and metabolism. patients and meth...