BACKGROUND Rhabdomyolysis (RML) is caused by muscle injury, this may cause kidneys overload and lead to acute renal failure (ARF). The risk factors for RML in bariatric surgery (BS) are operative time (OT) >4 h and high BMI. The frequency of RML in BS varies from 12.9 to 37.8%. This study has the objective of describing the characteristics associated with RML and ARF in BS. METHODS We studied...

In view of the cardioprotective effect of oxytocin (OT) released in response to stress, the aim of this study was to evaluate the role of heat shock proteins Hsps 70, 27 and 20 in stress-induced cardioprotection in isolated, perfused rat hearts. Rats were divided in two main groups: unstressed and stressed rats, and all of them were subjected to i.c.v. infusion of vehicle or drugs: unstressed r...

Serum enzyme studies were made on 43 (37 male, 6 female) consecutive patients with ankylosing spondylitis. Serum creatine phosphokinase (CPK) activity was raised above 55 IU/l in 24 (65%) of 37 male patients (range 29-165 IU/l, mean 68) as compared with 2 (4%) out of 47 male controls (range 14-85 IU/l, mean 33: P less than 0-001); levels were greater than 35 IU/l in six (100%) out of six female...

Oxytocin (OT) neurons localized in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) and supraoptic nucleus (SON) send fibers to the brain and spinal cord. While most previous studies have looked at the role of OT in chronic pain, few have investigated the role of OT in acute pain, particularly postoperative pain. In the present study, the role of OT in incision-induced allodynia was explored for the first tim...

We measure cross-diffusion coefficients in a five-component system, an aerosol OT (AOT) water-in-oil microemulsion loaded with two constituents of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction (H(2) O/AOT/BZ1/BZ2/octane). The species BZ1 is either NaBr, an inhibitor of the BZ reaction, or ferroin, a catalyst for the reaction. As species BZ2, we choose Br(2) , an intermediate in the reaction. The cross...

Introduction: Cardiac preconditioning represents the most potent and consistently reproducible method of rescuing heart tissue from undergoing irreversible ischemic damage. The aim of the present study was to evaluate oxytocin (OT) induced cardioprotection and its signaling pathways on lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and creatine kinase-MB isoenzyme (CK-MB) in the anesthetized rats. Methods: Ei...

Results: The infant infection rate was 0.75 per 100 births from 1997 to 2010 (Poisson 95% CI, 0.48 to 1.10). Rates per 100 births were 3.37 (CI, 2.08 to 5.14) for e antigen–positive mothers and 0.04 (CI, 0.001 to 0.24) for e antigen–negative mothers. Among mothers with viral load testing, the lowest level associated with transmission was 6.32 10 IU/mL. Infection rates per 100 births were 3.61 (...

Three applications oE intensional recursion theory to computer science are presented. Proof Lechn iqut.-.i are used, in some cases, as a criterion of appliciibiLity. The first example distinguishes various tormy of recursion as programming tools. A highly iccur-jivc proof of the famous speed up theorem from complexity theory is presented. The final application concerns the synthesis of programs...