many factors including genetic, environmental, and acquired are involved in breast cancer development across various societies. among all of these factors in families with a history of breast cancer throughout several generations, genetics, like predisposing genes to develop this disease, should be considered more. early detection of mutation carriers in these genes, in turn, can play an import...

An avian ortholog of transforming growth factor beta1 (TGFbeta1) is the target-derived factor responsible for the developmental expression of large-conductance Ca(2+)-activated K(+) (K(Ca)) channels in chick ciliary ganglion (CG) neurons developing in vivo and in vitro. Application of TGFbeta1 evokes an acute stimulation of K(Ca) that can be observed immediately after cessation of a 12 hr expos...

The objective of this study was to estimate genetic parameters for milk protein fraction contents, milk protein composition, and milk coagulation properties (MCP). Contents of α(S1)-, α(S2)-, β-, γ-, and κ-casein (CN), β-lactoglobulin (β-LG), and α-lactalbumin (α-LA) were measured by reversed-phase HPLC in individual milk samples of 2,167 Simmental cows. Milk protein composition was measured as...

The reaction of lanthanoid metal powders (Ln) with sulfur and cesium azide (CsN3) as a nitrogen source in the presence of lanthanoid tribromides (LnBr3) yields lanthanoid nitride sulfides with the composition Ln4N2S3 (Ln = Ce–Nd) when appropriate molar ratios of the starting material are used. Additional cesium bromide (CsBr) as a flux secures quantitative conversion (7 days) at 900 ◦C in evacu...