Embryonic segmentation in clitellate annelids (oligochaetes and leeches) is a cell lineage-driven process. Embryos of these worms generate a posterior growth zone consisting of 5 bilateral pairs of identified segmentation stem cells (teloblasts), each of which produces a column of segmental founder cells (blast cells). Each blast cell generates a lineage-specific clone via a stereotyped sequenc...

It is recognized that explosive blast Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) may be a significant risk factor for seizure and consequently Post-Traumatic Epilepsy (PTE). This has importance clinically as the manifestation of seizures following a blast exposure may be the only objective clinical sign that a victim may have suffered cellular and structural brain injury. The mechanisms by which explosive bl...

Circulating blast cells from the peripheral blood of acute myeloblastic leukemia patients include a subpopulation capable of colony formation in the presence of phytohemagglutinin-stimulated leukocyte-conditioned medium (PHA-LCM). We describe the complete replacement in the blast assay of PHA-LCM by conditioned medium from a human bladder carcinoma cell line, HTB9. Both conditioned media contai...

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backgrounds: thyroid hormones play an important physiological role in human metabolism. erythrocyte abnormalities are frequently associated with thyroid disorder. however, they are rarely investigated and related to the subclinical and primary hypothyroidism in kashmiri patients. in this study an attempt was made to study hematological parameters in untreated and treated subclinical hypothyroid...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Blast lung injury is a common type of blast injury and has very high mortality. Therefore, research to identify medical therapies for blast injury is important. Perfluorocarbon (PFC) is used to improve gas exchange in diseased lungs and has anti-inflammatory functions in vitro and in vivo. The aim of this study was to determine whether PFC reduces damage to A549 cells c...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Elderly patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) have a less favorable outcome, which has been related, among other factors, to multidrug resistance (MDR) phenotypes. DESIGN AND METHODS Freshly obtained erythrocyte-lysed bone marrow samples from 150 elderly patients (> 65 years) with de novo AML and 30 younger AML patients were analyzed using a 4-color immunofluore...

Because suppressor of cytokine signaling (SOCS) proteins are negative regulators of cytokine-induced signaling, it has been hypothesized that aberrant SOCS expression confers resistance against cytokine therapy. This study reports on the constitutive expression of SOCS3 in most chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) cell lines, which are resistant to treatment with interferon alpha (IFN-alpha). In ...

IBM’s Cell Broadband Engine (Cell BE) [8] is an novel computing platform that provides a unique set of design challenges and opportunities to developers. Based around multi-core architecture with two distinct types of processing cores, the Cell BE supports high levels of processor and data level parallelism. To explore part of the application design space for the Cell BE, we are developing an i...

the methanolic extracts of indigofera aspalathoides (meia) and wedelia calendulaceae (mewc) were evaluated for their anticancer activity against ehrlich ascites carcinoma (eac) in swiss albino mice. on day 1, the extract of indigofera aspalathoides at a dose of 250 and 500 mg/kg body weight and the extract of wedelia calendulaceae at a dose of 250 and 500 mg/kg body weight were administered ora...