The gold spot mullet fry, mean length of 1.30 0.048 cm and mean weight of 0.05 0.007 g were collected from coastal creeks of Ratnagiri (Maharashtra, India) and then acclimatized to 20 ppt salinity. They were observed for the response to the two anaesthetics: Clove oil and Sodium bicarbonate. Effective dosage of both the anaesthetics viz. clove oil and sodium bicarbonate for the induction and re...

Elhai et al.’s [1] study evaluates the frequency of radiological cervical spine involvement in young adults with polyarticular JIA (pJIA) compared with RA patients. The authors show that about two-thirds of patients in both groups had radiographic abnormalities in the cervical spine, including anterior atlantoaxial subluxation, erosion of the odontoid process, C1 C2 arthritis and apophyseal joi...

Clearly, the prevention and management of unintended pregnancy are primary health services needed by the majority of women of reproductive age, as well as many comparable men. The training that family physicians receive in family planning and first-trimester abortion is critical, yet few studies have investigated these aspects of their education. The Council on Residency Education in Family Pra...

Department of Pediatrics, Research and Education Institute Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502. 1. Supported by a grant from the NIH (DK56090-A1) and American Diabetes Association (ADA). The GC/MS Facility is supported by PHS grants P01-CA42710 to the UCLA Clinical Nutrition Research Unit, Stable Isotope Core and M01-RR00425 to the General Clinical Research Center. 2. To whom corresp...

RNA interference (RNAi) is the process of sequence-specific post-transcriptional gene silencing triggered by double-stranded RNAs1–3. In attempts to identify RNAi triggers that effectively function at lower concentrations, we found that synthetic RNA duplexes 25–30 nucleotides in length can be up to 100-fold more potent than corresponding conventional 21-mer small interfering RNAs (siRNAs). Som...

OBJECTIVE To assess whether tissue Doppler myocardial imaging (TDI) indices can predict postoperative left ventricular function in patients with mitral regurgitation (MR) after surgical correction. METHODS 84 patients (mean (SD) age 54.3 (10.8) years) with asymptomatic severe MR, an end systolic diameter < 45 mm, and an ejection fraction (EF) > 60% were subdivided in two groups: 43 patients w...

Objective: To assess whether tissue Doppler myocardial imaging (TDI) indices can predict postoperative left ventricular function in patients with mitral regurgitation (MR) after surgical correction. Methods: 84 patients (mean (SD) age 54.3 (10.8) years) with asymptomatic severe MR, an end systolic diameter , 45 mm, and an ejection fraction (EF) . 60% were subdivided in two groups: 43 patients w...