Background: Tumour microvascularity is a significant determinant of prognosis for a large number of different tumours, including uveal melanoma. The development of blood vessels within these and other tumours is partly controlled by soluble pro-angiogenic cytokines, of which basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) and vascular endothelial growth factor-A (VEGF) are the best described. Methods: Be...

There has been great interest in bone marrow aspirate concentrate (BMAC) as a cost effective method in delivering mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) to aid in the repair and regeneration of cartilage defects. Alongside MSCs, BMAC contains a range of growth factors and cytokines to support cell growth following injury. However, there is paucity of information relating to the basic science underlying ...

functional foods have a large and growing global market and are regarded as one of the most actively researched areas of food science. the growth in popularity of functional foods is attributed to the phenomena of consumer health care, increasing health awareness and knowledge in the many benefits of functional foods. common benefits of functional foods include reduction of disease, health main...

the study of comparative politics ,in the field of political science, has a great significance. this article not only introduces schools of thought which have been phenomena in the history of comparative politics but also surveys the history behind this growth. the present article shall . deal with and subsequently explain the success of this field and its current status. the new conceptualizat...

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the paper under review delineates the scenario, perspective and the future trends of science –driven entrepreneurship in the islamic world. it digs out the factors causing the sluggishness and suggests the plan of action for the renaissance of indigenous science –driven entrepreneurship with grafting of the modern scientific high tech marketing techniques on it. the paper highlights that entrep...

the aim of this study was comparative evaluation of iran scientific output in the field of food science and technology with five countries including ireland, turkey, egypt, argentina and malaysia during 1990-2010 in the web of science. the number of indexing scientific outputs in this database show that ireland, argentina and turkey ranked sequentially. articles have the largest share of scient...