Objective: To analyze factors related to the prognosis of primary extra-gastrointestinal stromal tumors (EGISTs). Methods: The pathological and clinical data of 42 patients with primary EGISTs was collected and retrospectively analyzed. The patients were hospitalized from January 2004 to December 2013 and received complete surgical resection in Ruijin Hospital. The follow-up of postoperative pa...

Testicular neuroendocrine tumors (NET) or carcinoid tumors are rare neoplasms which represent 1% of all testicular tumors and can be divided into 3 subgroups: pure primary testicular NET, primary testicular NET associated with a teratoma, and NET metastases to the testis. We report an unusual presentation of a primary testicular neuroendocrine tumor in a 39-year-old male who presented after a p...

Epothilones, macrocyclic lactones from culture filtrates of the myxobacterium Sorangium cellulosum, are known as taxol-like microtubular drugs in human medicine. To date, nothing is known about the effect of epothilones on microtubules (MTs) in plant cells and/or on the plant cell cycle. As shown in this report, the treatment of tomato cell suspension cultures with epothilone D produced a conti...

Hitherto, studies of mitotic indices in zooxanthellae have involved identification of doublet cells in the mitohc phase of cytokinesis. This note presents comparative results for zooxanthellae in the temperate sea anemone Anemonia viridis Forskal based upon measurements in both cytokinesis and karyokinesis, provides some evidence for the relative duration of these phases of mitosis in A. viridi...

Moquiniastrum polymorphum subsp floccosum (Cabrera) G. Sancho is used in traditional Brazilian medicine to treat inflammation and infection, which is supported by scientific data. However, only one study has been conducted on the mutagenic activity of the extract, which has important safety implications. This study evaluated the mutagenic/antimutagenic activity of M. polymorphum ethanolic extra...

Prognosticators evaluating survival in breast cancer vary in significance in respect to lymph node status. Studies have shown e.g. that HER2/neu immunohistochemistry or HER2/neu gene amplification analysis do perform well as prognosticators in lymph node positive (LN +) patients but are less valuable in lymph node negative (LN -) patients. We collected data from different studies and tried to e...

The aim of study was to determine the influence of mobile phone frequency radiation on the proliferation, cytoskeleton structure, and mitotic index of V79 cells after 1 h, 2 h, and 3 h of exposure. V79 cells were cultured in standard laboratory conditions and exposed to continuous-wave (CW) RF/MW radiation of 935 MHz, electric field strength of (8.2+/-0.3) V m(-1), and specific absorption rate ...

Phytohemagglutinin (PHA) is a lectin, obtained from the red kidney bean that binds to the membranes of T-cells and stimulates metabolic activity, cell division, etc. The object of this research was the comparison between self made PHA (Indigenous) and imported commercial one, following conventional and High Resolution Cell Synchronization technique (HRCS) .From each blood sample of healthy indi...

Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) originate from diffuse neuroendocrine cell system and can develop in many organs. Gastroenteropancreatic (GEP) NETs account for approximately 70%, followed by bronchopulmonary thymic NETs.[1] The World Health Organization (WHO) classification divides GEP into well-differentiated poorly differentiated carcinoma (NEC). Well-differentiated be grade 1 (G1; mitotic count...

The clinical application and reliability of the leukocyte culture method for the diagnosis of freemartinism were examined and the length of time that blood samples could be held at room temperature and in the refrigerator prior to culturing, was investigated. The chromosome findings by the leukocyte culture method in 14 freemartins and 9 non-freemartin females belonging to heterosexual twins or...