Objective (s): Mucoadhesive disc is one of the various routes of drug delivery for curing buccal disease.Materials and Methods:Everydiscs containing 70 mg stem bark extract of Ziziphus jujuba were formulated  by using Carbopol 934, PVP k30 and gelatin as polymers. Discs were made by granulation  and direct compression. Discs were standardized based on the total phenol.  Properties such as in vi...

PURPOSE The present study compared changes in CIE L*a*b* color coordinates of substrates of different colors when covered with zirconium oxide discs (Procera) and with such discs if veneered with two shades of porcelain. MATERIAL AND METHODS Forty background substrates were fabricated and divided into four groups depending on the color of the substrates: white, black, gray, and tooth-colored ...

Leaf discs from expanding leaves of Rumex patientia L. were exposed to 7 hours of visible plus different levels of ultraviolet radiation in the 290 to 315 nm waveband (UV-B) and then placed in darkness. Leaf disc expansion was reduced and anthocyanin production was increased in discs exposed to moderate or high levels of UV-B radiation when compared to control discs. The possibility that the in...

the problem of pole assignment, also known as an eigenvalue assignment, in linear discrete-time periodic systems in discs was solved by a novel method which employs elementary similarity operations. the former methods tried to assign the points inside the unit circle while preserving the stability of the discrete time periodic system. nevertheless, now we can obtain the location of eigenvalues ...

Using a local model Gammie (2001) has shown that accretion discs with cooling times tcool ≤ 3Ω −1 fragment into gravitationally bound objects, while those with cooling times tcool > 3Ω −1 evolve into a quasi-steady state. We use three-dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamic simulations of protoplanetary accretion discs to test if the local results hold globally. We find that for disc masses ...

Changes in phosphate metabolism were explored in discs from tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) leaves of three contrasting types: green leaves which were fully expanded and attached to the plant, leaves which had yellowed following excision and dark starvation, and leaves which had yellowed while attached to the plant. 2,4-Dinitrophenol at 10(-5)m stimulated the respiration rate of discs from green an...

and clatter. The Italians call them buffone — clowns. The large white grubs feed on roots and can be a major pest of grass and potatoes. Now controlled by pesticides, they were once far more abundant locally. In 1574, adult cockchafers were so numerous in the Severn Valley that their drowned bodies blocked the wheels of watermills, the book describes. In parts of Europe, if not in Britain, the ...

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE There is controversy regarding which imaging method is best for identifying early degenerative alterations in intervertebral discs. No correlations between such methods and histological finds are presented in the literature. The aim of this study was to correlate the thickness of intervertebral discs measured on simple radiographs with the degree of degeneration seen on ma...

BACKGROUND Loads acting on scoliotic spines are thought to be asymmetric and involved in progression of the scoliotic deformity; abnormal loading patterns lead to changes in bone and disc cell activity and hence to vertebral body and disc wedging. At present however there are no direct measurements of intradiscal stresses or pressures in scoliotic spines. The aim of this study was to obtain qua...

1. Discs cut from tobacco leaf tissue infected with tobacco mosaic virus and cultured in water contain less non-protein nitrogen than comparable uninfected discs during the time at which TMV is formed. This deficiency disappears when virus formation ceases. Discs cultured in nutrient solution form about twice as much TMV as discs cultured in water. The maximum non-protein nitrogen deficiency is...