Effectiveness of Logotherapy on Death Anxiety, Hope, Depression, and Proper use of Glucose Control Drugs in Diabetic Patients with Depression.

Background: Logotherapy encourages the individual to find meaning in life, which is recognized as the driving force of every individual in their lifetime. Diabetes, caused by the impairment in metabolism of glucose, fat, and protein, is associated with lack of secretion or dysfunction of insulin. This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of logotherapy on death anxiety, hope, depression, and proper use of glucose control medication in diabetic patients with depression.

Effect of oral magnesium sulfate administration on lectin-like oxidized low-density lipoprotein receptor-1 gene expression to prevent atherosclerosis in diabetic rat vessels.

Aims/introduction: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the possible effect of oral magnesium sulfate (MgSO ) in the reduction of atherosclerosis plaques through inhibition of lectin-like low-density lipoprotein receptor-1 (LOX-1) gene expression in diabetic vessels.

Materials And Methods: A total of 50 rats were divided into five groups, including non-diabetic control, Mg-treated non-diabetic control, chronic diabetic, Mg-treated chronic diabetic and insulin-treated chronic diabetic. The induction of diabetes was carried out by streptozotocin.

Establishment of a fast and high yield method for routine production of [(131) I]MIBG and investigation of its radiochemical stability for diagnosis and treatment uses.

In this work, exchange radioiodination of metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) was carried out at optimum conditions that facilitates the production of [(131) I]MIBG both quickly and efficiently. The radiochemical purity and yield of the labeled product are typically as high as 99% and 90% for diagnostic dose and 95% and 80% for therapeutic dose, respectively. Stability studies show that labeled material at the room temperature met the demand of the clinical application.

Influence of drying conditions of zirconium molybdate gel on performance of (99m)Tc gel generator.

(99m)Tc can be produced from (99)Mo/(99m)Tc gel generators. These gels are part of the generator and the (99)Mo/(99m)Tc gel generator performance is directly related with gel structure. In this work a series of zirconium molybdate gels have been synthesized and dried under different conditions and characterized using thermal analysis (TGA, DTA), SEM, XRD and porosity measurements.