background: inflammatory response following surgical trauma has long been a matter of study. results, however, have been varied. we sought to assess changes in the levels of proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines in patients undergoing laparoscopic and open cholecystectomy and their impact on the clinical outcome of patients concerning the postoperative pain score. methods: the study i...

climate change which is derived by increase of atmospheric co2 concentration and other greenhouse gases could have considerable effects on productivity of crops in the future. climate change impacts on chickpea yield were investigated and yield maps of dryland areas of zanjan province were provided. investigated scenarios were control scenario, in which simulated current situation, and climate ...

Black pepper is widely produced in Brazil, though there are few studies related to its water requirements and the effects of deficit (WD) applied under tropical conditions. The growth, sensitivity WD, first-year productivity irrigated plants from Bragantina cultivar were evaluated, employing an irrigation system with automatic management. cultivated plastic pots installed field for 391 days usi...

An optimization procedure was applied to investigate the anticandidal property of four different Iranian seaweed extract compositions. Response Surface Methodology (RSM) with the four levels- three–factor Box–Behnken design, including Gracilaria arquata concentration (X1), Nizimudidnia zanardini concentration (X2), Cystoceria indica concentration (X3) and Padina australis concentration (X4), wa...

background: the goal of antivenom administration for snake-bitten patients is to achieve therapeutic response (initial control), which means reversal of the venom-induced effects through neutralizing the venom. the aim of this study was to identify snakebite prognostic factors of weak therapeutic response prior to antivenom administration. methods: this was a retrospective study of patients wit...

to study the response of pinto-bean yield and yield components in intercropping with maize and naked-pumpkin under weed competition, two similar experiments were conducted in rasht and roudsar separately each in a randomized complete block design with 3 replications on factorial arrangements experiment in 2013. the treatments of first factor consisted of  pinto bean (100 and 75%) sole cropping,...