C lathrin is best known for its role in endocytosis and other membrane traffi cking events, but the protein's heavy chain has several additional functions , including organization of mitotic spindles and coordination of actin fi laments at intercellular adhesions. Vassilopoulos et al. now reveal that the clathrin heavy chain (CHC) also helps to organize skeletal muscle sarcomeres by promoting t...

background: the treatment of human brucelosis is controversial. the purpose of this study was to search published clinical trial papers to provide a simple and effective treatment in brucellosis. methods: many studies on brucellosis treatment in a twenty- year span from 1993 to 2012 were searched in pubmed, web of science (isi), scopus, google scholar, magiran, iranmedex and sid. the studies th...

The lizard, Sceloporus occidentalis has an all-cone retina. In lizards maintained on a 12-h light:12-h dark (12L:12D) cycle, a burst of cone outer segment (COS) shedding occurs 2 h after light offset (1400 h circadian time) (Young, R.W., 1977, J. Ultrastruct. Res. 61:172-72). In this investigation, we studied the effect of different lighting regimes on the pattern of cone disk shedding in this ...

Several aspects of behavior and physiology, such as sleep and wakefulness, blood pressure, body temperature, and hormone secretion exhibit daily oscillations known as circadian rhythms. These circadian rhythms are orchestrated by an intrinsic biological clock in the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) of the hypothalamus which is adjusted to the daily environmental cycles of day and night by the proce...

Abstract In the 19th century when arsenic was recommended treatment for psoriasis, little consideration given to toxic side-effects of potent carcinogen. Thomas Girdlestone, an English physician, is said have been first advocate use treat psoriasis. Girdlestone prescribed Fowler’s solution, a solution potassium arsenite 1%. 1876, Alexander John Balmanno Squire inadvertently discovered dithranol...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE High-dose chemotherapy and autologous bone marrow transplantation (ABMT) has become the standard approach for most patients with relapsed or refractory Hodgkin's disease. Disease status at transplant has been correlated with outcome following ABMT. In light of this, we employ mini-BEAM (BCNU, etoposide, cytarabine and melphalan) salvage therapy in order to achieve a sta...

Photostimulation with green light accelerated BW and muscle development of broilers. In experiment 1, temperature sensors were inserted into 50 broiler eggs. The eggs were placed under 5 green light-emitting diode (LED) lamps at an intensity of 0.1 W/m2 at eggshell level for 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25 min (n = 10). Egg temperatures were recorded continuously. A high correlation was found between lig...