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Sleep Quality in Hemodialysis Patients
(UNIVERSITATSVERLAG ULM GMBH, 2008)
Background: The need for sleep is a part of basic human needs and their daily activities. Hemodialysis changes the quality of sleep, and poor sleep can have serious detrimental effects on health, possibly resulting in ...
Effects of Simvastatin on Mandibular Distraction Osteogenesis
(W B SAUNDERS CO-ELSEVIER INC, 2008)
Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of local and systemic simvastatin application on distraction osteogenesis. Materials and Methods: Eighteen New Zealand white rabbits underwent unilateral mandibular ...
Wedge type vaned diffuser flow measurements in a low speed centrifugal compressor
(NATL INST SCIENCE COMMUNICATION-NISCAIR, 2008)
This study establishes effectiveness of vaned diffuser in comparison with vaneless diffusers in centrifugal compressor. Hot wire measurements at three inter-vane positions for mean velocity, turbulent kinetic energy and ...
Extreme complications of Fixion nail in treatment of long bone fractures
(SPRINGER, 2008)
The authors present their experience related to extreme complications in treatment of diaphyseal fractures of the long bones with application of the Fixion expansion intramedullary nail in a total of 48 surgeries. We have ...
Effect of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition on experimental hepatic fibrogenesis
(SPRINGER, 2008)
The renin-angiotensin system is suggested to be important in liver fibrogenesis. It induces hepatic stellate cell proliferation and up-regulates transforming growth factor beta-1 (TGF-beta 1) expression. Matrix metalloproteinase-2 ...
Inhibition of neuronal nitric oxide synthase prevents iron-induced cerebellar Purkinje cell loss in the rat
(NENCKI INST EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY, 2008)
Iron plays an important role in maintaining normal. brain function. However, in many neurodegenerative diseases abnormal iron accumulation in specific brain regions has been consistently reported. In this study, we ...
K-Ar ages of granitoids unravel the stages of Neo-Tethyan convergence in the eastern Pontides and central Anatolia, Turkey
(SPRINGER, 2008)
K-Ar dating of mineral separates extracted from various granitoid rock units of the eastern Pontides and central Anatolia, Turkey, has provided some new insights unravelling various stages of the Neo-Tethyan convergence ...
Punctuated Exhumation and Foreland Basin Formation and Infilling in (Circum)-Central Anatolia (Turkey) Associated with the Neo-Tethyan Closure
(SCIENTIFIC TECHNICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL TURKEY-TUBITAK, 2008)
Apatite fission-track data indicate that the (circum)-central Anatolian granitoids (CAG) were exhumed during successive shortening phases following continent-continent collisions within the Neo-Tethyan domain in central ...
Limnological studies on the transboundary Turkish soda lake: Lake Aktas
(PARLAR SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS (P S P), 2008)
Lake Aktas is a small, shallow, and turbid soda lake located between Turkey and Georgia. During the survey, conductivity, pH, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, NO(3)-N, NH(4)-N, TP, SRP, silicate, major anions (Cl(-), SO(4), ...
Thoracotomy in Spine Surgery
(GEORG THIEME VERLAG KG, 2008)
Objective: Aim of the study was the assessment of thoracotomies performed for spine surgery. Methods: All patients undergoing spine surgery with thoracotomy between December 2004 and October 2007 were included and evaluated ...