Report of Health Care
Volume:4 Issue: 2, Spring 2018

Whole body vibration (WBV) has been studied as a relatively new and effective way to provide strong mechanical stimulation in the muscular nervous system, cardiovascular, respiration, bone and muscle tissue in a wide range of medical, ergonomic and animal experiments. This study aimed to investigate the effect of WBV during the recovery period on the anaerobic performance indices and the blood lactate concentration of wrestlers.

Twelve male wrestlers of college students in Tehran with a mean age of 25.75 ± 2.55 years old, height 175.58 ± 6.35 cm, weight 71.4 ± 7.75 kg and body fat percentage 14.22 ± 6.87 (%) volunteered for participation in the study. The training protocol was 10 minutes of warming and then the subjects performed intensive anaerobic activity for 2 minutes and then 15 minutes of recovery was performed; after a recovery, the same 2 minutes of intensive anaerobic activity was repeated. On the first day, inactive recovery, and after four days on the second day, WBV as active recovery was used. In this study, blood lactate concentrations were measured four times. Paired sample t-test, repeated measure ANOVA and Bonferroni post hoc at significant level of 0.05 were used to analyze the data.

The results of present study showed that WBV in comparison with inactive recovery, improves the anaerobic power of wrestlers in the second activity than the first activity (Peak Power, p=0.61; Average Power, p=0.62), but does not have a significant effect on the concentration of blood lactate (p=0.006).

This study showed WBV as an active recovery method can have beneficial effects on the improvement of anaerobic power indices and blood lactate in wrestlers.

Psychological factors are very important variables in the addiction potential. The aim of current research was to investigate the mediating role of self-control in the relationship between emotion regulation and addiction potential among university students. This research was cross-sectional correlational. The statistical population of the present study included students from Yasouj University in the academic year 2017-18. 394 of the university students were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method and responded to the Iranian scale of addiction potential, emotion regulation subscale, and self-control scale. The gathered data were analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficient, regression analysis, path analysis and sobel test (p≤0.05). Results showed that, emotion regulation could negatively predict addiction potential (p=0.01) and positively predict self-control (p=0.01). Also emotion regulation could indirectly predict addiction potential with the mediating role of self- control (p=0.01) The results of current research implies the importance of psychological factors such as emotion regulation and self- control in explaining addiction potential. Also, the role of emotional regulation in direct and indirect explanation of addiction is important.

Maternal stress during pregnancy leads to neuroinflammation of the fetus and cognitive disorders in children. On the other side, Trichostatin A (TSA) as a histone deacetylase inhibitor has anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective effects. The aim of the present study was an evaluation of TSA effect on amelioration of spatial memory deficit and modification of pro-inflammatory cytokines in rat’s hippocampus of prenatal footshock stress model. In the present study, 24 pregnant Wistar rats were divided into 4 groups including control, PFS+Saline, PFS+TSA5, and PFS+TSA10. In order to induce prenatal footshock stress (PFS), the pregnant rats were subjected to electrical shock at 1 mA, 50 Hz for 2 seconds with 5 repetitions at 3-minute intervals from 12 to 18 days of pregnancy. Two hours before applying the shock intraperitoneal administration of TSA was performed daily. When the offsprings were one-month old, their spatial memory was assessed by the Morris water maze. Finally, the levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines (TNF-α, IL-1β, and IL-6) were measured by ELISA method. a reduction in spatial memory and an increase in the level of TNF-α, IL-1β, and IL-6 were observed in PFS+Saline group compared to the control. Besides, spatial learning showed a significant increase in TSA-treated groups compared to PFS+Saline. TSA with anti-inflammatory effects led to the reduction of hippocampal inflammatory cytokines and amelioration of spatial memory in offsprings who were exposed to stress in the prenatal period.

Trimethyltin is a methylated organotin, which induces selective damage and neuronal death in human and rodents’ CNS. On the other hand, the neuroprotective effects of Gallic acid can prevent toxicity of trimethyltin. In the current study, the repairing effect of Gallic acid in cell injury caused by trimethyltin in rats was evaluated. Also, this study assessed the effects of Gallic acid on neuronal density of the different hippocampal areas of intoxicated rats with trimethyltin. 30 rats were divided in three groups: the no treatment control group, the control group, and the experimental group with intraperitoneal injection of trimethyltin (8 mg/kg) and Gallic acid solvent for 14 days. In the experimental group, after the administration of trimethyltin, 50 mg/kg of Gallic acid was injected. It was continued for 14 days. Finally, the rats were killed with transcardial perfusion. Histopathological and stereological analysis was performed on the rats. In this research, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, one-way analysis of variance, and Tukey’s post-hoc test were used. The results of this study showed that neuronal density of different hippocampal areas of the no treatment control group was significantly increased compared to the rats of the control and experimental groups (P<0.05), while chronic administration of Gallic acid could prevent apoptosis and protect hippocampal cells. According to the results, it is suggested that chronic administration of Gallic acid decreases the effects of trimethyltin and therefore, it prevents the reduction of hippocampal cells.

Autism is one of the structural disorders of brain which is accompanied by deficiency in motor skills and verbal communications. The present study was conducted aiming at investigating the effect of social story telling on the development of motor skills and verbal communications among the children and adolescents suffering the autism. This study was semi-experimental of pretest- posttest type with control group. Statistical population of this study included all children with autism from 5 to 17 years old in Sirjan City in March 2017- March 2018 from among whom, 16 persons were selected by accessible random sampling method based on the conditions for entering the study, then they were divided randomly into two experimental and control groups. Experimental group was involved with the social stories intervention for children and adolescents through researcher direct training for 12 weeks and 2 sessions a week and control group received no intervention. Research tools were GARS autism rating scale, Vineland social maturity scale and social stories. Results obtained from pretest and posttest stages were analyzed by statistical test of covariance and the significance level was considered at p< 0.05. Finding showed that the social skills training increases significantly the motor skills and verbal communications among the children and adolescents with severe autism spectrum disorder at level of p < 0.001 compared to the control group. Social skills training to autistic children is likely to improve the motor skills and verbal communications among them through strengthening the sensorimotor integration, creativity and motivation for progress and reducing the anxiety.

Consumption of green coffee may play a protective role against various diseases in modern societies, such as obesity. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of eight weeks of aerobic training with green coffee on body composition and lipid profile in overweight women. In this semi-experimental study, 30 overweight housewives were selected voluntarily and randomly divided into experimental (aerobic training-green coffee, 15 people) and control (aerobic training, 15 people) groups. Experimental (aerobic training-green coffee) and control (aerobic training) groups participated in the aerobic training program for 8 weeks, 3 sessions per week, 60 minutes each session with intensity of 70-80% of maximum heart rate. The subjects of the green coffee group daily consumed 90 mg of green coffee for 8 weeks. Data were analyzed with covariance analysis at p≤0.05. Eight weeks of aerobic training and green coffee consumption had no significant effect on waist to hip ratio, body fat percentage, BMI, body mass, TG and HDL in overweight women (P>0.05). However, eight weeks of aerobic training and green coffee consumption significantly decreased cholesterol (P=0.001) and LDL (P=0.01) in overweight women. According to the findings of study, eight weeks of aerobic training and green coffee consumption caused a significant decrease in cholesterol and LDL in overweight women. Therefore, it can be said that probably aerobic exercise and green coffee consumption can reduce the harmful lipids in overweight individuals.

Resistance to macrolide can be created by erm genes in Staphylococcus. The aim of the current study was to determine whether or not cell phone use can result in the antibiotic resistance of 16S rDNA, Coa, ermA, ermB and ermC genes in Staphylococci isolated from cell phone users’ and non- users’ ears. A total of 150 isolates of Staphylococci were tested by the disk diffusion method. The isolates were examined by PCR for 16S rDNA, Coa, ermA, ermB and ermC genes. According to PCR results, in two statistical societies, 65.33% cell phone users with positive Coa had only one erm, 33.33% cell phone non-users with negative Coa had only one erm and %1.34 had genes, whereas 24% cell phone non-users with positive Coa had one erm, %44 cell phone non-users with negative Coa had one erm and 32% had a minority of genes. Results showed that 16S rDNA, Coa, ermA, ermB, and ermC genes in the cell phone users group were more prevalent than the other group in Staphylococci isolated from ears. It is revealed that the presence of 16S rDNA, Coa, and erms genes had a significant relation to erythromycin and methicillin. Detection of ermA, ermB and ermC plays crucial roles in the molecular mechanisms, epidemiology of the efflux pump and methylase erythromycin ribosome. Since antibiotic resistant Staphylococci isolates may mutate and prompt constitutive resistances it is suggested that inducible resistance test should be implemented on erythromycin resistant sensitive isolates to prevent treatment failures.

Air pollution is the result of the emission of chemicals, particulate matter, and biologic material into the atmosphere, which caused adverse effects on the environment and health. Major air pollutants that threaten human health are carbon monoxide, Nitrogen oxide, ozone, Sulfur dioxide, chemical vapors, and particulate matter. Air pollution is an important risk factor for cardiovascular health, therefore in this review article; we discuss air-polluting particles and the adverse effects of them on cardiovascular disease.