Survival of Clostridium difficile in an aerobic environment is possible because of spore formation. When sodium taurocholate is substituted for the egg yolk of a selective medium, cycloserine-cefoxitin-fructose-agar (CCFA), enhanced recovery of C. difficile spores is shown. This selective medium (TCCFA) does not improve recovery of vegetative forms. In this study, dry and saline-moistened swabs...

Beef liver agar (Stafseth, Mich. State Univ. Agr. Expt. Sta. Tech. Bull. No. 49, part 2, 1920) inoculated with large numbers of brucellae is one of the most satisfactory media for obtaining rapid and abundant surface growth. Certain aerobic strains of this genus fail to grow on liver agar plates when the surfaces are inoculated with 103 or fewer live cells. Attempts (Polding, Med. Res. Council ...

Disparities in longitudinal growth within a species can be partly explained by endocrinological differences. We hypothesized that regulatory networks acting locally in the growth plate may also be important. We tested this hypothesis by evaluating the IGF/IGFBP expression, the vitamin D pathway, and the PTHrP-Indian hedgehog (IHH) feedback loop in rib growth plates from 10- and 21-wk-old small-...

The antifungal action of different concentrations of white-colored mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA) against Candida albicans was assessed in vitro. Fresh mix of MTA was prepared at concentrations varying from 0.78 mg/ml to 50 mg/ml by dilution with 10 ml molten agar at 45 degrees C. The MTA-agar compound was thoroughly mixed and the uniform mix was then poured into sterile Petri dishes and allo...

Volume 31, No. 3, Page 307-313, 2016Page 310, Legend for Fig. 4 IncorrectFig. 4. Growth degree of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. spinaciae for organic fertilizers at each dilution based on an estimation of the ellipse area (A) and extension length (B) of the colony. Cont, compound inorganic fertilizer; SBM, steamed bone meal; CDC, cow dung compost; MI, microbial inoculant. Values show mean of median...

Introduction: Longitudinal bone growth is a complex process involving temporo-spatial progression of chondrocytes throughout the reserve zone, the proliferative zone and the hypertrophic zone of the growth-plate [1]. The growth rate of a bone is a complex interplay between: 1) cell replication in the proliferative zone; 2) cell enlargement in the hypertrophic zone; and 3) matrix synthesis as we...