We investigated the clinical, arthroscopic and biomechanical outcome of transplanting autologous chondrocytes, cultured in atelocollagen gel, for the treatment of full-thickness defects of cartilage in 28 knees (26 patients) over a minimum period of 25 months. Transplantation eliminated locking of the knee and reduced pain and swelling in all patients. The mean Lysholm score improved significan...

Occurrence of chalkiness is a major problem as it is an important parameter in determining the quality of rice grains. High temperature during the grain filling period results in loose packing starch granules that could be due to the involvement of starch degrading enzymes i.e., amylases. Therefore, two rice genotypes viz., PAU 3699-13-2-1-1 and PR122 were sown at two different dates. Thirty-da...

Recent success in functional recovery by photoreceptor precursor transplantation in dysfunctional retina has led to an increased interest in using embryonic stem cell (ESC) or induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived retinal progenitors to treat retinal degeneration. However, cell-based therapies for end-stage degenerative retinas that have lost the outer nuclear layer (ONL) are still a big...

Cell replacement therapy is a viable option for the treatment of Huntington's disease (HD), where the aim is to replace the lost medium spiny projection neurons of the stria‐ tum. The intra‐striatal engraftment of developing striatal precursors harvested from the foetal brain has provided proof of concept in both rodent models and human patients that these primary foetal tissue grafts can bring...

Background—An increasing number of patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) are reaching adulthood and may require heart transplantation. The survival of these patients after listing and transplantation has not been evaluated. Methods and Results—A total of 41 849 patients (aged 18 years) were listed for primary transplantation during 1995–2009. Patients with a history of CHD (n 1035; 2.5%)...

The efficacy of oxamyl in controlling Heterodera schachtii on cabbage was determined by applying various contbinations of soil drenches at 6.7 kg (a.i.)/ha and foliar sprays at 0.04 kg (a.i.)/100 liters of water to cabbage seedlings. Pretransplant drenches provided some control of H. schachtii over a 13-week period. A single foliar spray of oxamyl 1 week before transplanting apparently prevente...

Aiming at the trouble of low survival rate cantaloupe seedling in hyperthermia, drought and dry land Turpan region China, existing transplanting machine is key to mechanized non-destructive transportation planting large plants young tender melon seedlings, root water injection, precise soil piling holes，and other technical difficulties. The design mulch film transplanter for laying pipes belts ...

Osteoarthritis (OA) is the leading form of arthritis in the elderly, causing pain, disability, and immobility. OA has been associated with accumulation of senescent cells in or near joints. However, evidence for a causal link between OA and cellular senescence is lacking. Here, we present a novel senescent cell transplantation model involving injection of small numbers of senescent or nonsenesc...

The relative contributions of segmental versus prosodic factors to the perceived naturalness of synthetic speech was measured by transplanting prosody between natural speech and the output of a diphone synthesizer. A small corpus was created containing matched sentence pairs wherein one member of the pair was a natural utterance and the other was a synthetic utterance generated with diphone dat...