Phthalates, plasticizing chemicals, are top-rated environmental contaminants. Diethyl phthalate (DEP), a chief member of this family, was declared potent endocrine disruptor and carcinogen in animals humans. The current study designed to explore the probable reproductive damage induced by DEP therapeutic efficacy raw honey male albino mice. Four-week-old 50 mice were randomized equally five gro...

The AP-2 family of transcriptional regulator proteins has three members, alpha, beta and gamma. AP-2alpha and gamma are expressed in placenta and in the human trophoblast cell line JEG-3. AP-2 has been shown to regulate expression of the placental human chorionic gonado-tropin (hCG) alpha- and beta-subunit genes, however, previous work did not distinguish between the family members. Tryptic pep...

Correspondence: Ekaterina Pavlova Institute of Experimental Morphology, Pathology and Anthropology with Museum, BAS, Acad. G. Bonchev Str., Bl. 25, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria. Tel.: +359 2 979 2336 e-mail: [email protected] ABSTRACT Sodium nitrite (NaNO2) is an inorganic salt with various industrial applications. In the circulation NaNO2 oxidizes hemoglobin to methemoglobin, which is incapable of t...

Walleye pollock, Theragra chalcogramma, is the most commercially important species in the eastern Bering Sea. Estimates of maturity are critical for setting an appropriate harvest rate for pollock spawning biomass, and correct classification of ovaries into a maturity condition is necessary for accurate estimation of maturity. Data on length, weight, and ovary weight and condition were collecte...

MAMMALS, as a rule, are described as having melanocytes of neural crest origin confined almost entirely to the skin. Of the organs other than skin which have been described as possessing melanocytes are portions of the gonado-genital apparatus of the Opossum (Burns, 1939), and, in the house mouse, tissues of the nictitans, the meninges of the brain, the parathyroids, the thymus and harderian gl...

Ribbonfish, Trichiurus lepturus (Linnaeus, 1758), is an important component of subsistence fisheries throughout its tropical and subtropical distribution. The catch rate of ribbonfish has increased seven-fold in a decade in the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea. We collected monthly biological samples from T. lepturus, to estimate growth and mortality parameters, and identify species reproductive patte...