Prooxidative-antioxidative balance of cells in different types of renal replacement therapy.

Stem Cell Therapy: the ethical issues

The ability to culture human stem cells long term, and possibly indefinitely, and to control how such cells specialise to form the different tissues of the body offers the possibility of major advances in healthcare. Stem cells have been isolated and cultured, but a great deal of research is required to develop cell lines which can generate replacement cells and tissues to treat many diseases.S...

The Effect of Early Progressive Isotonic Exercise Therapy on Static Balance Control of Patients with Total Knee Replacement

Purpose: Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is believed to be an important risk factor for falling. Total knee replacement (TKR) is a commonly used choice when other methods are not satisfactory. Proprioception impairment, risk of falling and balance disorder are within the main complications of this method. While multiple protocols have been suggested for TKR, efficacy of early isotonic ...

Effect of replacement of alfalfa hay with straw in iso-fibrous diets with different levels of cation-anion balance on dairy cows performance

Oxidative Damage and Antioxidative Therapy in Systemic Sclerosis

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune connective tissue disorder of unknown etiology. This disease is characterized by a large variety of clinical patterns, which include the fibrosis of skin and visceral organs causing a variety of clinical manifestations. Genetic and environmental factors participate in the etiology of this disease; however, recently many studies underline the oxidative b...

Antioxidative and Prooxidative Actions of Xylose-Lysine Maillard Reaction Products.

Maillard reaction products were prepared by heating xylose and lysine at pH 9.0 and 100°C for 3 h, and then fractionated by ethyl ether and ethanol into acidic, neutral and basic low-molecular-weight, ethanol-soluble and ethanol-insoluble fractions. The ethanol-soluble and -insoluble fractions were the major fractions of the xylose-lysine Maillard reaction products (XL MRPs), contributing 79.5%...