background: corn silk (cs) is widely used in iranian traditional medicine and feijoa sellowiana(fs) is a native plant widespread in the southern parts of iran. the aim of the present study was to assess renal protective activities of cs and fs against dosage induced injury by ecstasy (mdma) using insitu rat renal perfusion (irrp) system.methods: hydro-alcoholic extract of cs and fs (10, 20, 40 ...

background: prepubertal varicocele has the most devastating effects on the testes. oxidative stress is the major cause leading to infertility in varicocele. the antioxidant properties of flaxseed (fs) treatment in some oxidative diseases have been reported. objective: this study aimed to evaluate the antioxidant effect of fs in prepubertal rats with experimental varicocele. materials and method...

This study compared floor (FS) with cage systems (CS) for slow-growing meat-type chickens in terms of muscle fiber characteristics, carcass and meat quality. Following the design a factorial arrangement 2 housing × genders, 180 male female Beijing You 8 weeks old were allocated to FS CS. At end 17 weeks, five males females from each replicate selected measurement. No difference was observed bod...

In this paper, we report our experience researching with very young children (age 3 to 5 years old) in a series of evaluation study in one local nursery in the UK. A new evaluation tool, named the Fun Semantic Differential Scale (FSDS) has been developed and tested with the nursery children to understand how they respond to it. We report on our experience of using these scales to evaluate the f...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Contrast-enhanced fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) imaging has been reported to have higher sensitivity for detecting leptomeningeal disease compared with contrast-enhanced T1-weighted MR imaging. The purpose of this study was to compare contrast-enhanced T1-weighted MR images with fat suppression to contrast-enhanced FLAIR images to determine which sequence wa...

BACKGROUND T1-weighted (T1W) hyperintense nodules against a background of cirrhosis are diagnostically challenging in daily practice. All regenerative nodules, dysplastic nodules and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) might present hyperintense on T1W imaging (T1WI), so T1W hyperintense nodules cannot be definitively characterized as dysplastic nodules or HCC before biopsy, resection or transplanta...

AIM According to our earlier study, molar-incisor-hypomineralisation (MIH) was associated with the exposure of a child via mother's milk to polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins/dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) in a group of Finnish children born in 1987. Since the levels of PCDD/Fs and PCBs in mother's milk/placenta have remarkably decreased, it was important to find out if an association still exists. M...

Intensifying winter wheat ( Triticum aestivum)–grain sorghum [ Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench]–fallow (W–GS–FL) crop rotation with annual forages can increase productivity and resource use efficiency. The objective of this research was to quantify the impact increasing intensity by growing in a traditional W–GS–FL on cropping system productivity, water use, precipitation efficiency, net income. st...

A serial slaughter study, involving 45 individually housed Yorkshire female pigs, was conducted to evaluate the impact of feeding diets containing ground flaxseed (FS) during either the grower or late finisher phase on the incorporation of α-linolenic acid (18:3n-3) and n-3 highly unsaturated fatty acid metabolites (n-3 HUFA; all n-3 PUFA excluding 18:3n-3) in trimmed loin (longissimus dorsi) a...