objectives to investigate the role of cgs21680, a selective adenosine a2a receptor agonist, on a bile-duct-ligated cirrhotic liver resection model in rats. methods male wistar rats were allotted into 3 groups (n = 7 per time-point): the control group, the bile duct ligation + cgs21680 group (bdl + cgs), and the bile duct ligation group (bdl). biliary cirrhosis had been previously induced by lig...

Background Stroke is among the major causes of short- and long-term disability. This study aimed to understand the caregivers (CGs) stress in stroke survivors. Materials and Methods A 22-item questionnaire was administered to 201 CGs of stroke survivors. The variables tested were physical and mental health, social support, financial, and personal problems. CGs were divided into Group A (Barth...

It has been a significant and challenging issue to derive the complex valid contracted graphs (CGs) with hexagonal links plus other links and identify their isomorphism for creating novel closed mechanisms. This paper focuses on the derivation of the valid CGs with hexagonal links plus other links using the characteristic strings (CSs). First, the concepts on the CGs and CSs are explained, and ...

Conceptual Graphs (CGs) are a formalism to represent knowledge. However producing CG database is complex. To the best of our knowledge, existing methods do not fully use expressivity CGs. It particularly troublesome as it necessary have databases test and validate algorithms running on This paper proposes CG2A, an algorithm build synthetic CGs exploiting most their expressivity. CG2A takes inpu...

The effect of a specific inhibitor of thromboxane (Tx) A2 synthesis, CGS-13080, a new angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor, CGS-16617, and a combination of both drugs was studied in hemorrhagic shock in rats. Treatment with CGS-16617 (1 microgram/kg) or CGS-13080 (200 micrograms/kg) alone did not alter significantly postoligemic hypotension or the increase in plasma cathepsin D activity in s...

Micro-CGS, an integration of the interferometric optical method Coherent Gradient Sensing (CGS) [1-3] with an inverted microscope, is introduced. Micro-CGS extends the capabilities of Classical CGS into the cellular level. As such, it provides full-field, real-time, micro-interferometric quantitative imaging. Micro-CGS is based on the introduction of a microscope objective into the classical CG...

BACKGROUND Cardiac glycosides (CGs) including digitalis, digoxin and digitoxin are used in the treatment of congestive heart failure and atrial fibrillation. Pre-clinical studies have investigated the anti-neoplastic properties of CGs since 1960s. Epidemiological studies concerning the association between CGs use and cancer risk yielded inconsistent results. We have performed a systematic revie...

BACKGROUND It is vitally important that there is a connection between health research and clinical practice. Indications as to the impact of the research on evidence-based practice and policy can be obtained by tracking the use of outputs of health research, especially its use in clinical guidelines (CGs). This study aims to assess the proportion of National Institute for Health and Care Excell...

In this paper, a derivation method is presented for the valid contracted graphs (CGs) with pentagonal links plus quaternary Q and ternary T using starting vertax arrays strings (SVASs) type synthesis of parallel mechanisms. First, some concepts on CGs, array (SVASs), basic (BCGs) are explained. Second, deriving CGs according to BCGs SVASs. According connections vertax, SVASs obtained. Then, pri...

Abstract Ternary compounds such as Cu2GeS3(CGS) and Cu2SnS3(CTS) semiconductor materials have been considered lower defects environmentally friendly absorber layer for solar cells. In this work, the band offsets CGS/CdS CTS/CdS heterointerface are calculated by first-principles calculation method. The valence maximum (VBM) of CdS is below CGS (valence offset Δ E V =1.4 eV), conduction minimum (...