effects of nitrogen fertilizer levels on agronomic efficiency (ea), physiological efficiency (ep), and recovery efficiency (er), in rice (oryza sativa l.) cv. khazar was investigated in a rcbd of three replications in a sandy soil in guilan province, iran in 2003. this study compared the effects of six n rates, namely: control (no n fertilizer), 40 (basal), 40+40 (basal + midtillering), 40+20+2...

An experiment was conducted to study the effect of Epinephrine (EP) and bromocriptine (BR) on productive traits of laying hens. Thirty White Leghorn hens, 50 weeks old, were divided into three equal treatments (with 10 hens for each treatment): control, physiological serum (0.5 mL/hen/week), EP (0.5 mL/hen/week) and BR (100 g/kg of body weight (BW); w/v in absolute alcohol). Hens were injected ...

Pannexin1 (Panx1) is a gap junction gene in vertebrates whose proteins mainly function as non-junctional channels on the cell surface. Panx1 channels can release ATP under physiological conditions and play critical roles in many physiological and pathological processes. Here, we report that Panx1 deficiency can reduce ATP release and endocochlear potential (EP) generation in the cochlea inducin...

BACKGROUND The equine periodontium provides tooth support and lifelong tooth eruption on a remarkable scale. These functions require continuous tissue remodeling. It is assumed that multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) reside in the periodontal ligament (PDL) and play a crucial role in regulating physiological periodontal tissue regeneration. The aim of this study was to isolate and char...

an experiment was conducted to study the effect of epinephrine (ep) and bromocriptine (br) on productive traits of laying hens. thirty white leghorn hens, 50 weeks old, were divided into three equal treatments (with 10 hens for each treatment): control, physiological serum (0.5 ml/hen/week), ep (0.5 ml/hen/week) and br (100 g/kg of body weight (bw); w/v in absolute alcohol). hens were injected ...

Introduction: Radiation therapy (RT) is the gold standard treatment for more than half of known tumors. There is increasing evidence that combining radiation therapy with a radiosensitizer can enhance the efficiency of this treatment modality. A radiosensitizer preferably enhances dose at the site of tumor and increases discrimination between tumor and normal surrounding tissue...

This research evaluated physicians' agreement about patients' diagnoses and nurses' ability to detect patient change using traditional charts (TC) and a work domain analysis-based paper prototype (PP) and also sought to determine whether differences persisted when the PP was represented as an electronic prototype (EP). Nurses' change detection improved using the PP and EP compared to TC (PP vs ...

Regulatory modifications of steroidogenesis were induced following the administration on rats and humans of a nutritive supplement, Humanofort, containing two embryonary peptides (EP) of 5 and 10 kDa. The administration of EP to rats for 60 days increased significantly the urinary excretion of 17-ketosteroids in all animals. The serum cholesterol increased only in females, by ~50%, this increas...

A hybrid of evolutionary programming (EP) and a deterministic optimization procedure is applied to a series of nonlinear and quadratic optimization problems. The hybrid scheme is compared with other existing schemes such as EP alone, two-phase (TP) optimization, and EP with a non-stationary Penalty function (NS-EP). The results indicate that the hybrid method can outperform the other methods wh...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Radiation therapy (RT) is the gold standard treatment for more than half of known tumors. Despite recent improvements in RT efficiency, the side effects of ionizing radiation (IR) in normal tissues are a dose-limiting factor that restricts higher doses in tumor treatment. One approach to enhance the efficiency of RT is the application of radiosensitizers to selectively ...