Can pirfenidone prevent tendon adhesions? An experimental study in rats.

Objectives: In this experimental study, we aimed to investigate the effectiveness of oral pirfenidone (PFD) treatment on preventing tendon adhesion and tendon healing in rats.

Materials And Methods: A total of 21 rats were assigned into three groups including seven rats in each group. In Group 1 (sham group), no surgical procedure was performed.

The prediction of live weight of hair goats through penalized regression methods: LASSO and adaptive LASSO.

The least absolute selection and shrinkage operator (LASSO) and adaptive LASSO methods have become a popular model in the last decade, especially for data with a multicollinearity problem. This study was conducted to estimate the live weight (LW) of Hair goats from biometric measurements and to select variables in order to reduce the model complexity by using penalized regression methods: LASSO and adaptive LASSO for and . The data were obtained from 132 adult goats in Honaz district of Denizli province.