Evaluation of antioxidant properties and nutritional composition of purslane (Portulaca oleracea) from arid regions.

This study evaluates the antioxidant properties and nutritional composition of purslane (Portulaca oleracea) grown in the arid region of Kyzylorda, Republic of Kazakhstan. The antioxidant capacity of purslane was assessed using the Ferric Reducing Antioxidant Power (FRAP) assay, yielding values of 43.5 ± 1.

Survival advantage of cyromazine-resistant sheep blowfly larvae on dicyclanil- and cyromazine-treated Merinos.

Objective: To determine whether a cyromazine-resistant strain of Lucilia cuprina was able to establish strikes sooner than a susceptible strain on cyromazine- or dicyclanil-treated sheep.

Methods: Groups of 7 sheep were treated with cyromazine or dicyclanil in accordance with label directions. Beginning 5 weeks after treatment, 5 sheep from each group were challenged by implantation of neonate larvae belonging to the cyromazine-resistant strain 'Nimmitabel-selected' and the susceptible blowfly strain 'Field 2011' according to standard larval implant technique.

The use of functional and traditional mobilization interventions in a patient with chronic thoracic pain: a case report.

There is little information in the literature regarding the efficacy of spinal manual therapy (SMT) interventions for patients with chronic thoracic spinal pain. In addition, information regarding the clinical decision-making associated with the application of SMT for this patient population is deficient. The purpose of this case report is to present the rationale for and results of applying specific SMT interventions on a patient with chronic spinal pain.

Prolonged neuromuscular paralysis following rapid-sequence intubation with succinylcholine.

Objective: To report a case of severely prolonged succinylcholine-induced neuromuscular paralysis in a patient with previously undiagnosed butyrylcholinesterase deficiency.

Case Summary: A 54-year-old female was admitted for surgical drainage of a groin abscess. She was given propofol 200 mg and succinylcholine 160 mg (1 mg/kg) intravenously to induce sedation and paralysis for endotracheal intubation.

Assessing regulatory effectiveness with exogenously declining risk: a case study of the CPSC's 1973 mattress standard.

Introduction: This paper examines the contribution of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's (CPSC) 1973 cigarette ignition mattress flammability standard to reduce mattress fires since 1980, when the U.