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"n Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} Background: According to importance of post operative period, admission duration, post operative pain, and acceptable rate of complications, minimally invasive approaches with endoscope in pancreatic pseudocyst management becomes more popular, but the best choice of procedure and patient selection is currently not completely established. During past decade endoscopic procedures are become first choice in most authors' therapeutic plans, however, open surgery remains gold standard in pancreatic pseudocyst treatment."n"nMethods: we present here a patient with pancreatic pseudocyst unresponsive to conservative management that is intervened endoscopically before 6th week, and review current literatures to depict a schema to management navigation."n"nResults: A 16 year old male patient presented with two episodes of acute pancreatitis with abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting. Hyperamilasemia, pancreatic ascites and a pseudocyst were found in our preliminary investigation. Despite optimal conservative management, including NPO (nil per os) and total parentral nutrition, after four weeks, clinical and para-clinical findings deteriorated. Therefore, ERCP and trans-papillary cannulation with placement of 7Fr stent was performed and led to a dramatic improvement."n"nConclusions: Endoscopic based approaches must be considered the first line intervention for pseudocyst management and its complications. Complexity and need for technical expertise for endoscopic therapy is rate limiting issue for this approach. Surgical intervention must be reserved for unresponsive patients to minimally invasive treatments. Further investigations need for more complex endoscopic procedures that promote the results.

Introduction: The aim of this study was to evaluate the expression of pinopodes as animplantation marker after ovarian hyper stimulation and progesterone injection using scanningelectron microscopic studies. Material and Methods: Three groups of NMRI adult female mice were used in the experiment. The control group (Group A) were untreated pseudopregnant mice. Group B mice were made pseudopregnant after super ovulation treatment with hMG and hCG. Group C micewere treated the same as Group B and then received progesterone daily from day 1 of pseudopregnancy. Animals were sacrificed by cervical dislocation 3.5 and 4.5 days after hCG injection. Tissues were obtained from the middle 1/3 part of uterine horns and processed for scanning electron microscopic studies. Results: In the control group there were some pinopodes at 3.5 days of pseudopregnancy and the apical surface of all cells expressed these projections on day four. In the hyperstimulated group without progesterone injection no pinopodes were seen 3.5 days after hCG injection and some appeared on day 4. In the hyper stimulated and progesterone-injected group well developed pinopodes were expressed 3.5 days after stimulation and they became much smaller on day 4 after hCG injection. Conclusion: The results showed that the life span of pinopodes is short and changeable during hyper stimulation and that progesterone causes premature expression of the pinopodes, suggesting that the implantation after ovarian stimulation might depend upon the timing of the pinopode expression.

Independence test based on empirical copula does not perform well in the presence of weak dependency or when dependency occurs only in the tails. The copula density, which is estimated by a local likelihood probit transformation method, is used to detect the independence. In this article, three nonparametric tests of independence based on α-divergence and copula density are introduced. These tests are capable of considering weak dependency. The asymptotic consistency of the copula-based α-divergence estimator is also derived. In addition, the empirical powers of the proposed tests are computed through extensive simulations. The results show that the new tests outperform in small sample sizes or weak dependencies. Finally, an application in uranium exploration is presented to illustrate the applicability of the proposed tests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study was conducted to determine the effects of supplemented curcumin (CMN), derived from plant Curcuma longa, extract on performance and blood parameters of acetaminophen (ACT) induced quail hepatic injury. 240 quails from 0-37 days of age were used in a completely randomized design with 4 treatments of 4 replicates each and 15 chickens per replicate. All groups received 750 mg/kg body weight oral doses of ACT at 12 days of age. Japanese quails were divided into four groups: control (no CMN), commercial diet with 20 g CMN per ton, commercial diet with 40 g CMN per ton and commercial diet with 60 g CMN per ton. Feed intake and body weight gain were recorded weekly. Blood albumin, glucose, total protein, triglyceride, aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase, bilirubin, uric acid and creatinine were determined at 28 and 35 days of age. Adding curcumin to the diets significantly increased serum aspartate aminotransferase at 28 days of age (P<0.05) and decreased triglyceride and bilirubin at 35 days of age (P<0.05). There were no significant differences in performance and other blood parameters among the treatment groups at 28 and 35 days of age. The data indicated that curcumin is a natural antioxidant hepatoprotective agent against hepatotoxicity induced by acetaminophen model. Thus, curcumin may have a therapeutic value in drug-induced hepatotoxicity as well as in acetaminophen therapy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Foamy oil expression has puzzled many reservoir engineers in characterizing some heavy oil reservoirs. The strange fluid behavior of such reservoirs is considered as the reason of abnormally high flow rates and (the higher than expected) recovery factors. The authors aimed to briefly elaborate the foamy oil concept, review methodologies and laboratory experiments for identifying foamy oil behavior, and present a modified methodology for laboratory investigation of foamy behavior. The concern here is an Iranian heavy oil reservoir whose foamy nature is under debate (according to some production reports). Experimental results indicate that the studied crude oil acquires foamy characteristics, which makes it the first heavy oil reservoir with foamy behavior in the Middle East region. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]