OBJECTIVE This study aimed to determine the optimal Foley catheter balloon volume (30-mL vs. 80-mL) and the maximum time for cervical ripening (12 hours vs. 24 hours) to improve vaginal delivery rate within 24 hours of induction. METHODS We conducted an open-label, randomized controlled trial in a teaching hospital in China. Women with a term singleton pregnancy, cephalic presentation, intact...

The present study investigated the circadian rhythm variations of heart rate and blood pressure due to 1 (60 minutes) and 2 split exercise sessions (2 × 30 minutes) a day. Fourteen healthy students from the University of Tabriz volunteered to participate in current study. Two groups of subjects in a crossover design were randomly allocated as group I (one session per day, twice a day) and vice ...

BACKGROUND The kidney performs numerous specialised functions in an effort to maintain constancy of the internal composition of body fluids. AIM This study was done to ascertain the feasibility of estimating creatinine clearance as an outpatient procedure over a 2 hours period instead of doing the study over a 24 hours period. MATERIAL AND METHODS Eighteen renal donors, Twelve females and S...

Background & Aims: Adult neurogenesis occurs in the two main areas of the brain of most mammalian species in; sub ventricular zone, and the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus. Many factors such as 17-β estradiol affect neurogenesis in the hippocampus. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of exogenous 17-β estradiol on neurogenesis in the ovariectomized (OVX) mice. Materials & Meth...

objective: withdrawal symptoms are a main reason of continuous use of opioid. this study compares the efficacy of augmentation of amantadine with clonidine in decreasing opioid withdrawal symptoms. methods: this double-blind randomized clinical trial was carried out in the detoxification and rehabilitation inpatient ward at razi hospital, tabriz, iran during 2012. the patients were randomly ass...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE We sought to identify the most powerful binary measures of the treatment effect of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) in the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) rTPA Stroke Trial. METHODS Using the Classification and Regression Tree (CART) algorithm, we evaluated binary cut points and combination of binary cut points with the 4 clinical scale...

We studied the importance of the stimulus spectrum and of the listener’s experience on the human ability to judge distance of auditory objects. The study was performed in a virtual auditory environment (VAE), created by convolution of the stimuli with non-individual Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) measured in a regular classroom. The listeners’ task was to judge the distance of sounds o...