Physicochemical and sensorial properties of tomato leathers at different drying conditions.

Tomato leather as a healthy alternative to traditional fruit leathers was formulated. A tray dryer with changing temperature (50, 60, and 70°C) and relative humidity (5%, 10%, and 20%) was used to achieve the best product in terms of color, water distribution, lycopene content, mechanical, and sensorial properties. Color change was the highest at 70°C due to the Maillard reaction.

Diffraction of a pseudo nondiffracting Bessel beam by a circular perfect electromagnetic conductor disk.

This study examined the diffraction of a pseudo nondiffracting Bessel beam by a perfect electromagnetic disk. The geometric optics beam waves were written from the geometry of the problem and related boundary conditions. The diffracted beam waves were derived by utilizing the relation between geometric optics and diffracted waves at the transition boundaries, considering the high frequency asymptotic expression of the scattered wave.

The effect of vibrating cold application and puppet use on pain and fear during phlebotomy in children: A randomized controlled study.

Background: Non-pharmacological methods are often used as a creative strategy to reduce pain and fear in children during a painful procedure such as phlebotomy.

Objectives: This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of Bee Buzzy and puppet use on pain and fear during phlebotomy in children.

Methods: This randomized controlled study was conducted in the pediatric phlebotomy unit of a university hospital.

Uniform solution for the diffraction by an impedance and reflectionless metasurface planar junction.

The scattering process of waves by a planar junction of two half-planes, one of which is impedance and the other a reflectionless metasurface, is studied. The transition boundary method is considered. The scattered geometric optics field is obtained by subtracting the initial fields from the total geometric optics field.

Melatonin in preservation solutions prevents ischemic injury in rat kidneys.

Transplantation is lifesaving and the most effective treatment for end-stage organ failure. The transplantation success depends on the functional preservation of organs prior to transplantation. Currently, the University of Wisconsin (UW) and histidine-tryptophan-ketoglutarate (HTK) are the most commonly used preservation solutions.

The effect of N-acetyl cysteine on biofilm layers in an experimental model of chronic otitis media.

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of N-acetylcysteine (NAC) on biofilm layers and on the course of disease in chronic otitis media.

Methods: Twenty-five rats that were induced with chronic otitis media (COM) were separated into three groups. In Group 1 (N = 18), 0.

Wild and Domestic Differences in Plant Development and Responses to Water Deficit in .

There is growing interest in widening the genetic diversity of domestic crops using wild relatives to break linkage drag and/or introduce new adaptive traits, particularly in narrow crops such as chickpea. To this end, it is important to understand wild and domestic adaptive differences to develop greater insight into how wild traits can be exploited for crop improvement. Here, we study wild and domestic development and water-use over the lifecycle, measuring responses to reproductive water deficit, a key Mediterranean selection pressure, using mini-lysimeters (33 L round pots) in common gardens under contrasting water regimes.

Gaussian source beam diffraction by a perfect electromagnetic half-plane.

In the present work, diffraction of a Gaussian source beam by a perfect electromagnetic conductor (PEMC) semi-screen is investigated. Due to the special property of the PEMC sheet, which is a combination of perfect electric conductor and perfect magnetic conductor surfaces, the reflected wave from the PEMC surface has a cross-polarized component in addition to the co-polarized component. For an electric line source illumination, the diffracted fields are derived by considering the analogy between the transition boundaries and scattered geometric optics fields.

Effects of Three Different Frequencies of Aerobic Physical Activity on Heart and Kidney Tissues in Type 2 Diabetes-Induced Rats.

Objective: Exercise has many beneficial effects in the treatment and prevention of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM). The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of physical activities with different frequencies performed within a total total duration of one week on the heart and kidney tissues and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expressions in experimental T2DM model.

Method: Rats (n: 30) were divided into sedentary control (SC), sedentary T2DM (SD), T2DM and continuous exercise (DEc, 30 min/day, 5 days/week), T2DM and short bouts exercise (DEsb, 3x10 min/day, 5 days/week), T2DM and weekend warrior exercise (DEww, 35+40 min/day, 2 days/week) groups.

Effect of adjuvant hyperbaric oxygen on healing of cartilage lesions treated with microfracture: an experimental study in rats.

Purpose: The purpose of this experimental study was to investigate the effect of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO2) therapy combined with microfracture technique in the treatment of cartilage lesions.

Methods: Adult Wistar rats (n=44) were divided into six groups. In Groups A, B, C and D, ICRS* (* International Cartilage Repair Society) grade 4 cartilage lesions were made on the femoral sulcus of both knees.

Modeling of an interface between isorefractive media by a resistive surface.

In this study, the scattering of plane waves by a half-plane with different face impedances, which lie between isorefractive media, is analyzed. A new approach for the solution of this scenario is proposed. According to this proposal, the problem of isorefractive media and an impedance half-plane is modeled by a junction of resistive and impedance sheets.

Ecology and genomics of an important crop wild relative as a prelude to agricultural innovation.

Domesticated species are impacted in unintended ways during domestication and breeding. Changes in the nature and intensity of selection impart genetic drift, reduce diversity, and increase the frequency of deleterious alleles. Such outcomes constrain our ability to expand the cultivation of crops into environments that differ from those under which domestication occurred.

Actinomycosis osteomyelitis of the jaws: Report of four cases and a review of the literature.

Actinomycosis osteomyelitis of the jaw bones, particularly in the maxilla, is an extremely rare disease. This report presents two cases of maxillary and two cases of mandibular actinomycosis osteomyelitis, with the diagnosis particularly based on histological procedures. The highly diversified pathogenicity of the phenomenon and the absence of solid diagnostic criteria are discussed.

Cystic bone lesions: histopathological spectrum and diagnostic challenges.

Objective: Bone cysts are benign lesions occurring in any bone, regardless of age. They are often asymptomatic but may cause pain, swelling, fractures, and local recurrence and may be confused with other bone lesions.

Material And Method: We retrospectively re-evaluated 143 patients diagnosed with aneurysmal bone cyst (n=98, 68.

Kidney biopsy reveals metastatic adenocarcinoma of the appendix simulating nephrotic syndrome.

Membranous glomerulonephritis (MGN) is among the most common causes of nephrotic syndrome in adults. The malignancy in presumed tumor-induced MGN has usually been diagnosed at the time the proteinuria is discovered. Here we report a 57-year-old male patient with a history of refractory pyuria and nephrotic syndrome.

Clinical and morphological characteristics of osteoid osteoma and osteoblastoma: a retrospective single-center analysis of 204 patients.

Osteoid osteoma and osteoblastoma are histologically similar, benign bone-forming tumors. In this retrospective study, we aimed to evaluate the natural history; clinical, pathologic, and radiologic findings; and treatment results in 204 patients between 1959 and 2006 in a single institution. According to the World Health Organization's definition, tumors ≤1 cm in diameter were classified as osteoid osteoma, and those ≥2 cm, as osteoblastoma.

Intensive polyoma virus nephropathy treatment as a preferable approach for graft surveillance.

Background: Polyoma BK virus nephropathy (BKVN) is one of the important causes of graft failure and loss among renal transplant patients. Reduction of immunosuppression is the most important preferred treatment approach; however, there is no agreed protocol for additional treatments.

Objective: Our aim was to investigate the effects on graft survival of intensive treatment protocols for BKVN among renal transplant patients.

Autopsy findings of a case with oxalosis.

Oxalosis, deposition of calcium oxalate in tissues, is the final stage of hyperoxaluric syndromes. Being a rare entity, it is often missed, or the diagnosis is delayed, since the definitive diagnosis requires special laboratory tests. Kidneys, the walls of blood vessels, and bones are the major sites for crystal deposition.

Paraganglioma of the thoracic spine.

A 49-year-old man was admitted to hospital for treatment of a T10-11 paraspinal lesion, which was detected incidentally. He had suffered from facial flushing and palpitations associated with hypertension for many years. MRI confirmed the presence of a large, well-demarcated tumour in the left paraspinal area of the T10-11 vertebral bodies.

Comparison of the effects of Artemisia vulgaris and Artemisia absinthium growing in western Anatolia against trichinellosis (Trichinella spiralis) in rats.

Trichinellosis often causing diarrhea and more rarely fever, periorbital edema and myositis in human, is commonly treated with benzimidazole derivatives. The Artemisia genus has been found to be effective against a variety of parasites. In the present study, the efficacy against trichinellosis (Trichinella spiralis) of Artemisia vulgaris and Artemisia absinthium was examined for the first time in rats.

Constructive effect of exogenous melatonin against osteoporosis after ovariectomy in rats.

Objective: To analyze histomorphometric, densitometric and biochemical effects of melatonin on osteoporosis in ovariectomized rats.

Study Design: Wistar rats were divided into 6 groups. Group C: control; Group I: bilateral ovariectomy (OVX); Group II: OVX + vehicle; Group III: OVX + 10 mg/kg/day melatonin (MLT); Group IV: OVX + 30 mg/kg/day MLT; Group V: sham + 10 mg/kg/day MLT.

Erdheim-Chester disease: the effect of bisphosphonate treatment--a case report.

Erdheim-Chester disease is a distinctive pathologic and radiographic entity characterized by bilateral symmetric sclerosis of the diametaphyseal regions of long bones and infiltration of foamy lipid-laden histiocytes. It is a rare histiocytic disease of unknown etiology that is characterized pathologically by xanthogranulomatous infiltrates of multiple organs. We present a patient in her early sixties with bilateral mild knee and leg pain.

Osteoid osteomas and osteoblastomas of the spine.

Object: Osteoid osteomas and osteoblastomas are rare primary bone tumors that usually do not arise in the spine. In this report the authors analyze 16 cases of osteoid osteoma or osteoblastoma of the spine that were surgically treated over a 27-year period.

Methods: A retrospective study was conducted in which the following data were found: five patients had osteoid osteomas (two male and three female patients) and 11 had osteoblastomas (seven male and four female patients).

The effect of BCG vaccine at birth on the development of atopy or allergic disease in young children.

Background: Exposure to infectious diseases may reduce the development of asthma or allergy. In particular, the role of the BCG vaccine in modulating asthma or allergy has been a source of speculation.

Objective: To study newborns from 3 international sites to evaluate the prospective effect of BCG vaccine on allergic diseases or atopic development.