introduction: this study was done to compare the efficacy of interlesional injection of glucantime method and cryotherapy with interlesional injection in treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis in qom province. methods: in this randomized controlled trial patients were randomly allocated in the two arms of the study:one receiving interalesional glucantime injection weekly and the other receiving b...

A multilateral currency union removes the intraregional exchange rates but not the union rate variability with the rest of the world. The intraregional exchange rate variability is thus latent. A two-step procedure is developed to measure the variability. The measured variables are used to model inflation and intraregional trade growth of individual union members. The resulting models form the ...

The effects of increased gravity in the head-to-foot direction (+G(z)) and pressurization of an anti-G suit (AGS) on total and intraregional intra-acinar ventilation inhomogeneity were explored in 10 healthy male subjects. They performed vital capacity (VC) single-breath washin/washouts of SF(6) and He in +1, +2, or +3 G(z) in a human centrifuge, with an AGS pressurized to 0, 6, or 12 kPa. The ...

The influences of body posture and tidal volume (VT) on inter- and intraregional ventilation inhomogeneity were assessed by normalized phase III slope (Sn(III)) analysis of multiple-breath washout recordings of SF(6) and He in 11 healthy men. Washouts with target VT of 750, 1,000, and 1,250 ml were performed standing and supine. A linear-fit method was used to establish the contributions of con...

The Bereitschaftspotential (BP) is a slow negative cortical potential preceding voluntary movement. Since movement preparation is dependent upon the synchronous activity of a variety of neurons, BP may develop through the exchange of information among motor-related neurons. However, the relationship between BP and information flow is not yet well-known. In the present study, we aimed to investi...

UNLABELLED The topographic matching of alveolar ventilation (V(A)) and perfusion (Q) is the main determinant of gas exchange efficiency of the lung. However, no pulmonary functional imaging technique has been shown to predict whole-lung gas exchange in health and disease. This study aims to present a PET-based method to estimate regional alveolar ventilation-to-perfusion ratios (V(A)/Q) predict...