Constructed wetlands (CWs) have been widely used for wastewater treatment due to advantages such as low cost and easy operation. However, pollutant concentrations directly affect efficiency by inhibiting plant microbial growth. This study aims evaluate the relationship between concentrations, tolerance of plants, horizontal subsurface flow (HSF) CWs receiving synthetic wastewater. The results s...

GH secretagogues (GHSs) act via specific receptors in the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland to release GH. GHSs also stimulate the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis via central mechanisms probably involving CRH or arginine vasopressin (AVP). We studied the effects of hexarelin, CRH, and desmopressin, an AVP analog, on the stimulation of the HPA axis in 15 healthy young male volunteers...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the bactericidal activity against Streptococcus pneumoniae of simulated amoxicillin serum concentrations obtained in humans after 2000/125 mg sustained-release (SR) and 875/125 mg co-amoxiclav administered twice and three times a day, respectively. METHODS An in vitro computerized pharmacodynamic simulation was carried out and colony counts were determined over 24 h....

OBJECTIVE To estimate the incidence of falsely elevated risk of ovarian malignancy algorithm (ROMA) in a group of women with pathologically confirmed endometrioma and to investigate the associated factors. METHODS One hundred premenopausal women surgically diagnosed with ovarian endometrioma were selected. Preoperative clinical, laboratory, and surgical characteristics were compared between t...

Prohexadione-calcium (Pro-Ca) is a recently developed plant growth retardant used in some fruit trees. However, it important that the reduction of vegetative shoot dose not decrease yield and quality. In this study, effects Pro-Ca applications on quality Monroe peach, growing vigor rootstock (GF 677) were investigated. For reason, trees sprayed twice with 0 (water + surfactant), 62.5, 125, 250 ...

Plant cell suspension cultures are widely used for the production of recombinant proteins and secondary metabolites. One of the most important steps during process development is the optimization of yields by testing different cultivation parameters, including the components of the growth medium. However, we have shown that the biomass yield of a cell suspension culture derived from the pear cu...

Although radiotherapy technology has progressed rapidly in the past decade, the inefficiency of radiation and cancer cell resistance mean that the 5-year survival rate of patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is low. Radioactive (125)I seed implantation has received increasing attention as a clinical treatment for cancers. Vascular endothelial growth factor-A (VEGF-A) is one of the most ...

We compared the improved Abbott lMx cancer antigen (CA) 125 assay (cat. no. 7A89) with the Abbott CA 125 RIA. Serum specimens were from healthy perimenopausal women (n = 124) and from patients with benign gynecologic and nongynecologic diseases (n = 124), ovarian carcinoma (n = 104), or other malignancies (n = 193). The lMx assay detected as little as 0.193 kAU/L CA 125 (AU = arbitrary Abbott u...

We compared the improved Abbott IMx cancer antigen (CA) 125 assay (cat. no. 7A89) with the Abbott CA 125 RIA. Serum specimens were from healthy perimenopausal women (n = 124) and from patients with benign gynecologic and nongynecologic diseases (n = 124), ovarian carcinoma (n = 104), or other malignancies (n = 193). The IMx assay detected as little as 0.193 kAU/L CA 125 (AU = arbitrary Abbott u...

BACKGROUND Our group evaluated the risk of recurrence for optimally treated advanced epithelial ovarian cancer (adEOC) in patients with a low-level rising serum CA-125 concentration within the normal range (0-35 kU/l). In addition, we tested the new proposed early CA-125 signal of progressive disease (EPD) criterion in the same study population. PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients treated from 1998...