This research had conducted to investigate light intensity effects on the lucky bamboo growth in Islamic Azad University, Abhar Branch. The experiment arranged as a complete randomized block design with five treatments (0.75, 1.14, 1.89, 2.29 and 4.09 mmol m-2 s-1) in ten replications. Results showed that 1.89 mmol m-2 s-1 had significant differences than other treatments. The higher level of r...

PURPOSE To review clinical characteristics of pigmented villonodular synovitis (PVNS) in China. METHODS Electronic medical records (EMR) of four Chinese institutes were queried for patients with histologically proven PVNS between January 2005 and February 2014. Their data were collected including gender, age at diagnosis, clinical presentation, affected site, symptom duration, comorbidities, ...

On July 2, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit delivered what could be the final note in Tuomey Healthcare System’s (“Tuomey”) decade long battle with the government regarding the legality of certain physician compensation arrangements under the Stark law and False Claims Act. In its opinion, the court affirmed a $237,454,195 lower court judgment against Tuomey for violating ...

The seasonal occurrence of the beet armyworm, Spodoptera exigua (Hübner), and the southern armyworm, Spodoptera eridania (Cramer), was monitored over a 2year period using International Pheromones, Ltd. Moth Traps  baited with rubber septa impregnated with pheromone blends identified from conspecific females and also with pheromone emitted by live female beet armyworm moths. The pheromone blend...

Glutathione S-transferases (GST) are a family of enzymes involved in phase-II detoxification of endogenous and xenobiotic compounds. Polymorphisms in GST genes have been associated with susceptibility to different diseases. In this study we determined the frequencies of polymorphisms in GSTM1, GSTT1, and GSTP1 in DNA of 138 children from Cameroon, presenting with uncomplicated malaria (N = 19),...

BACKGROUND The Bacillus subtilis genome-reduced strain MGB874 exhibits enhanced production of exogenous extracellular enzymes under batch fermentation conditions. We predicted that deletion of the gene for RocG, a bi-functional protein that acts as a glutamate dehydrogenase and an indirect repressor of glutamate synthesis, would improve glutamate metabolism, leading to further increased enzyme ...

From the Department of Medicine, McMaster University and Henderson Research Centre, Hamilton, ON, Canada (S. Schulman, C.K.); the Department of Hematology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm (S. Schulman); Thrombosis Research Institute and Queen Mary University of London, London (A.K.K.); the Department of Vascular Pathology, Bellevue Hospital, Saint Etienne, France (P.M.); Medical Divis...