Objective: This study evaluates a new technique of an extracardiac conduit in total cavopulmonary connection in complex congenital heart disease. Methods: Between May 2000 and October 2002, 18 extracardiac conduit surgeries were performed. The patients’ weights ranged from 11 to 29 kilograms, the ages ranged from 1 to 12 years old and 10 patients were male. There were eight patients with tricus...

The effects of increases in body temperature on growth hormone (GH)-release were studied in 10 young normal males in the fasting state as well as postprandially. The temperature increase of one degree centigrade was attained by external heating using thermostatically controlled water blankets covered by heat-reflecting aluminium foil. The increase in plasma GH after heating was partially suppre...

parameters recognize different area weather and climatic and effect on the plants one of the best important effect elements is increase products yield. agro climatic study can state area ability and maximum exploit its. the aim of this research is, recognizing of the ability ecologic potential in different areas for cultivating brassica napus in regard to climatic temperature needs in khorasan ...

Background: Due to multiple roles of albumin in the body, injection of its medicinal product as one of the therapeutic or management strategies under conditions such as severe bleeding, burns, liver failure, and neonatal hemolytic diseases is on the physicians' agenda. Considering that albumin is the most abundant plasma protein, designing an appropriate method to purify it is highly important....

One of the most practical means of measuring this important variable is by the temperature of the boiling syrup at a known absolute pressure or by reference to the temperature of water boiling at the same pressure. The so-called “Boiling Point Elevation” or “BPE” has long been used for this purpose. A considerable amount of care must be exercised in making the temperature measurements if they a...

A molecular model is proposed of a bilayer consisting of fully saturated dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) and mono-unsaturated dioleoylphosphatidylcholine (DOPC). The model not only encompasses the constant density within the hydrophobic core of the bilayer, but also the tendency of chain segments to align. It is solved within self-consistent field theory. A model bilayer of DPPC undergoes...

ThermoTRPs, a subset of the Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) family of cation channels, have been implicated in sensing temperature. TRPM8 and TRPA1 are both activated by cooling; however, it is unclear whether either ion channel is required for thermosensation in vivo. We show that mice lacking TRPM8 have severe behavioral deficits in response to cold stimuli. In thermotaxis assays of temper...