BACKGROUND Liquid diets given enterally combined with "bowel rest' are efficacious in the treatment of active Crohn's disease, but rapid recrudescence of gastrointestinal symptoms after resumption of a normal diet is common. AIMS This study examined whether continuation of enteral nutrition as a nocturnal supplement to an ad libitum daytime intake of a normal diet increased the length of remi...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the role of autonomic function and other possible factors associated with a blunted fall in nocturnal blood pressure. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 39 normotensive normnoalbuminuric type 1 diabetic patients were studied. Glomerular filtration rate (51Cr-EDTA technique), extracellular volume (51Cr-EDTA distribution volume), and urinary albumin excretion rate (UAER...

BACKGROUND Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) or sleeping sickness leads to a complex neuropsychiatric syndrome with characteristic sleep alterations. Current division into a first, hemolymphatic stage and second, meningoencephalitic stage is primarily based on the detection of white blood cells and/or trypanosomes in the cerebrospinal fluid. The validity of this criterion is, however, debated...

conclusions vur might be more frequent in children with physiological urinary incontinence than the normal population, and might be as common as nmne with intermittent daytime incontinence. results urinary tract infection was found in 23 (34.8%) children, 17 (33.3%) and 6 (40%) patients with nmne and physiological urinary incontinence, respectively. out of 48 patients who underwent vcug, vesico...

background phlebotomus papatasi and p. salehi are reported as vectors of cutaneous leishmaniasis in southeast of iran. seasonal activity of these species is different in zoogeographical zones and must be known well for better management of the disease. objectives to determine the nocturnal activity of sand flies and their leptomonad infection rates. materials and methods a cross-sectional study...

Perhaps it is unacademic to start with the word “perhaps.” Doing so implies uncertainty, a “mortal sin” for academia that demands precision and decisive action.The however, real. Ac...

Circadian rhythms in nocturnal and diurnal mammals are primarily synchronized to local time by the light/dark cycle. However, nonphotic factors, such as behavioral arousal and metabolic cues, can also phase shift the master clock in the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCNs) and/or reduce the synchronizing effects of light in nocturnal rodents. In diurnal rodents, the role of arousal or insufficient sle...

asthma  is a clinical syndrome  characterized by chronic  airway inflammation, airway responsiveness, and expiratory airflow limitation. nocturnal symptoms and decreases in lung function are common aspects of the asthma clinical syndrome. nocturnal symptoms also appear to be associated with asthma-related mortality. in addition to its importance to the regulation of human circadian rhythms, an ...

To test the hypothesis that the actual organization of diurnal and nocturnal behavioural sequences observed in C3H mice tend to maximize a classical functional criterion the net energy gain artificial behavioural sequences were defined by reorganization of the acts of actual ones, through application of three Monte-Carlo-type processes (ALT, SEQ and RND). ALT sequences correspond to a random ch...

CDRI-08 is a standardized bacoside enriched ethanolic extract of Bacopa monnieri, a nootropic plant. We reported that CDRI-08 attenuated oxidative stress and memory impairment in mice, induced by a flame retardant, PBDE-209. In order to explore the mechanism, present study was designed to examine the role of CDRI-08 on the expression of NMDAR1 (NR1) and the binding of REST/NRSF to NR1 promoter ...