Background and objectives: Pain is a primarily protective in nature, but often causes discomfort. Currently available analgesic drugs are not useful in all cases due to their side effects. Medicinal plants are believed to be an important source of new chemical substances with potential therapeutic effects, such as, Teucrium polium (TP) used traditionally to relieve hea...

The interaction of cadherin-catenin complex with the actin-based cytoskeleton through alpha-catenin is indispensable for cadherin-based cell adhesion activity. We reported previously that E-cadherin-alpha-catenin fusion molecules showed cell adhesion and cytoskeleton binding activities when expressed in nonepithelial L cells. Here, we constructed deletion mutants of E-cadherin-alpha-catenin fus...

Background: Accumulation of pleural and peritoneal fluid is seen in some diseases. In order to diagnose the disease and start the treatment, one of the most important actions will be to differentiate between exudates and transudates. The objective of this study was to determine the diagnostic value of measuring the specific gravity of the fluid through...

We study a scenario based upon mass-less $\lambda \phi^4$ theory coupled to massive neutrino matter with $Z_2$ symmetry using conformal coupling, $A(\phi)=1-\alpha\phi^2/2M_{pl}^2;~\alpha=M^2_{pl}/M^2$ where $M$ is cut off mass. The chosen coupling generically leads the spontaneous breaking at late times such that field acquires non-zero mass, $m_\phi=(\alpha \Omega_{0\nu})^{1/2}H_0 \ll H_0 $ a...

nN backward scattering data above 5 GeV /c are analyzed in terms of the baryon Regge pole exchange and accompanying Regge cut due to the strong absorption. The fit of the cross sections is reasonable. The role of the cut turns out to be very important: (1) The extrapolated magnitude of the L10 residue at a 4 =! is significantly larger than that without the cut. Ll0 residue with or without the w...

Introduction: Smokers and non-smokers are at the risk of developing lung cancer when exposed to alpha rays as a result of the relatively low levels of radium and radon that may be present in different tobacco species. There is a great interest in studies and research on the radionuclides in narghile tobacco emitting alpha particles to know the relationship between smok...