AIM To provide age and gender-specific reference values for orbital fat and muscle volumes (MV) in Caucasian adults. PATIENTS AND METHODS Computed tomographic scans of 160 orbits from 52 men and 55 women, aged 20-80 years, not affected by orbital disease were evaluated. Orbital bony cavity volume (OV), fat volume (FV) and MV were calculated by a previously validated method using the software ...

the angiotensin 1-7 (ang 1-7), is abundantly produced in kidneys and antagonizes the function of angiotensin ii through mas receptor (masr) or other unknown mechanisms. in the current study, the role of masr and steroid hormone estrogen on renal blood flow response to ang 1-7 administration was investigated in ovariectomized (ov) female rats. ov female wistar-rats received estradiol (500 µg/kg/...

In this work, novel atom-type-based topological indices, named AT indices, were presented as descriptors to encode structural information of a molecule at the atomic level. The descriptors were successfully used for simultaneous quantitative structure-retention relationship (QSRR) modeling of saturated alcohols on different stationary phases (SE-30, OV-3, OV-7, OV-11, OV-17 and OV-25). At first...

In this paper, we introduce $(p,q)g-$Bessel multipliers in Banach spaces and we show that under some conditions a $(p,q)g-$Bessel multiplier is invertible. Also, we show the continuous dependency of $(p,q)g-$Bessel multipliers on their parameters.

PURPOSE The inhibitory role of secreted chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans on oncolytic viral (OV) therapy was examined. Chondroitinase ABC (Chase-ABC) is a bacterial enzyme that can remove chondroitin sulfate glycosaminoglycans from proteoglycans without any deleterious effects in vivo. We examined the effect of Chase-ABC on OV spread and efficacy. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Three-dimensional glioma...

The Green function of Mumford-Shah functional in the absence of discontinuities is known to be a modified Bessel function of the second kind and zero degree. Such a Bessel function is regularized here and used as a filter for feature extraction. It is demonstrated in this paper that a Bessel filter does not follow the scale space smoothing property of bounded linear filters such as Gaussian fil...

Let the Bessel number of the second kind B(n, k) be the number of set partitions of [n] into k blocks of size one or two, and let the Bessel number of the first kind b(n, k) be the coefficient of x in −yn−1(−x) , where yn(x) is the nth Bessel polynomial. In this paper, we show that Bessel numbers satisfy two properties of Stirling numbers: The two kinds of Bessel numbers are related by inverse ...

The characterization of an orf virus (OV) isolated from skin lesions of a goat kid with severe, persistent, proliferative dermatitis, and designated orf virus-San Angelo 2000 (OV-SA00) strain, is described. The identity of OV-SA00 was confirmed by a combination of methods, including electron microscopy, amplification of specific fragments of viral DNA by polymerase chain reaction, restriction e...