background it has been reported that systemic administration of allopurinol improves cell survival. this study was aimed to evaluate effects of allopurinol on skin flaps in dogs. methods twenty dogs underwent one skin flap surgery with a 2-week interval. the first procedure was performed according to the standard protocols. the second phase was started by a 1-week pretreatment with allopurinol....

OBJECTIVE To measure the parapapillary atrophy (PPA) area in en face images obtained with swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT), and to evaluate its relationship to glaucoma, myopia, and age in non-highly myopic subjects. DESIGN Retrospective, cross-sectional study. PARTICIPANTS Fifty eyes of 30 subjects with open-angle glaucoma (G group) and forty-three eyes of 26 healthy cont...

This study examined the natural diversity and distributions of sulfate-reducing bacteria along a natural carbon gradient extending down the shelf-slope transition zone of the eastern Pacific continental margin. Dissimilatory (bi)sulfite reductase gene sequences (dsrAB) were PCR amplified and cloned from five different sampling sites, each at a discrete depth, from two different margin systems, ...

Field experiment was carried out with five selected mustard cultivars during November 2007 to February 2008 under old alluvial soil in the Crop Research and seed Multiplication Farm of Burdwan University, Burdwan, West Bengal, India in randomized block design replicated thrice. Various growth parameters viz., length of shoot and root, number of primary branches per plant, length of siliquae, di...

BACKGROUND The efficacy of drugs used to treat inducible monomorphic sustained ventricular tachycardia (VT) has been assessed by investigating their ability to suppress inducibility, but the mechanism of the drug action remains to be determined. OBJECTIVES To determine electrophysiological variables that predict inducibility, divided doses of class I antiarrhythmic drugs were given and their ...

The present paper introduces an integrated construction of binary sequences having a zero-correlation zone. The cross-correlation function and the side-lobe of the auto-correlation function of the proposed sequence set is zero for the phase shifts within the zero-correlation zone. The proposed method enables more flexible design of the binary zerocorrelation zone sequence set with respect to it...

Experimental studies have been performed of foreign object damage (FOD) imparted to a thermal barrier system under conditions representative of those found in a turbine engine. The sub-surface damage has been characterized by using the focused ion beam (FIB) imaging system. The characterization reveals changes in the thermal barrier coating (TBC), caused by particle impact, that confirm and ela...