BACKGROUND Plants play a significant role in maintaining human health and improving the quality of human life. They serve humans well as valuable components of food, as well as in cosmetics, dyes, and medicines. In fact, many plant extracts prepared from plants have been shown to exert biological activity in vitro and in vivo. The present study explored antioxidant and antigenotoxic effects of ...

Quantitative and histochemical nitroblue with polycythemia vera and neoplasia astetrazolium reduction (NBT) tests were persociated with fever, as well as in those with formed on leukocytes of 13 patients with known bacterial infection. It is suggested polycythemia vera, seven with chronic that patients with neoplasia or polycygranulocytic leukemia, eight with neothemia vera may show a false pos...

This paper presents VEC-NBT, a variation on the unsupervised graph clustering technique VEC, which improves upon the performance of the original algorithm significantly for sparse graphs. VEC employs a novel application of the state-ofthe-art word2vec model to embed a graph in Euclidean space via random walks on the nodes of the graph. In VEC-NBT, we modify the original algorithm to use a non-b...

Tempol catalyzes the formation of H(2)O(2) from superoxide and relaxes blood vessels. We tested the hypothesis that the generation of H(2)O(2) by tempol in vascular smooth muscle cells during oxidative stress contributes to the vasorelaxation. Tempol and nitroblue tetrazolium (NBT) both metabolize superoxide in vascular smooth muscle cells, but only tempol generates H(2)O(2). Rat pressurized me...

Resveratrol (3,5,4'-trihydroxy-trans-stilbene) is a naturally occurring phytoalexin found in grapes and wine, and has been reported to exert a variety of important pharmacological effects. We have investigated the activity of resveratrol on proliferation and differentiation of the acute promyelocytic leukemia cell line NB4. The growth inhibitory properties of resveratrol appear to be due to its...

Genetic parameters of litter traits and their relationships with farrowing kinetics traits were estimated in a Large White population to examine the impact of selection for litter size on perinatal mortality and one of its main determinants, farrowing kinetics. Data were collected on 2,947 farrowings from 1,267 sows between 1996 and 2004. Litter traits included the number born in total (NBT), n...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to retrospectively observe and analyze the long-term treatment outcomes of 191 elderly patients with esophageal squamous cell cancer (ESCC) who were treated with californium-252 (252Cf) neutron brachytherapy (NBT) in combination with external beam radiotherapy (EBRT). MATERIAL AND METHODS From January 2002 to November 2012, 191 patients with ESCC underwent NB...

Abstract The rapid post-millennial internationalisation of Japan's tourism sector and the influx international visitors have quickly increased visitor motivations’ heterogeneity, thereby posing challenges for management. Given lack prior research, we aimed to identify nature-based (NBT) push-factor motivation domains in a Japanese national park segment domestic based on their motivations, demog...

Diallyl disulfide (DADS) has shown potential as a therapeutic agent in various cancers. Previously, calreticulin (CRT) was found to be downregulated in differentiated HL-60 cells treated with DADS. The present study investigated the role of CRT proteins in DADS-induced proliferation, invasion and differentiation in HL-60 cells. The present study demonstrated that DADS treatment significantly ch...