ALTHOUGH genes governing many characters have been transferred between species, the inheritance of only a few of these genes has been studied in detail in their new genetic backgrounds. ALLARD and SHANDS (1954) reported that the stem rust resistance transferred from Triticum timopheeui Zhuk. to a common wheat variety C.I. 12633 was controlled in certain hybrids by duplicate dominant genes linke...

The aim of this study was to see if an analgesic effect of subanaesthetic concentrations of isoflurane could be detected with evoked potentials elicited by nociceptive stimuli. We studied 10 healthy volunteers breathing three steady-state subanaesthetic concentrations of isoflurane (0.08, 0.16 and 0.24 vol% end-tidal). Reaction time, subjective pain intensities and evoked vertex potentials to l...

BACKGROUND We conducted a randomized trial in which we compared high-dose chemotherapy plus hematopoietic stem-cell rescue with a prolonged course of monthly conventional-dose chemotherapy in women with metastatic breast cancer. METHODS Women 18 to 60 years of age who had metastatic breast cancer received four to six cycles of standard combination chemotherapy. Patients who had a complete or ...

Objective: Evaluation activity was conducted using three spearmint genotypes (WG-SPM-Engl, SPM-Fran and SPM-EAS) and one standard check (WGSM-03) at Wondo Genet, Awassa, Debre Zeit and Allagae during 2012 and 2013 for two years. Methods: The treatments were arranged in randomized complete block design with four replications. Data on leaf to stem ratio, leaf yield/ha, Essential oil content and e...

Transplantation of stem cells requires a huge amount of cells, deeming the expansion of the cells in vitro necessary. The aim of this study is to define the optimal combination of basal medium and serum for the expansion of suspension peripheral blood mononucleated stem cells (PBMNSCs) without resulting in loss in the differentiation potential. Mononucleated cells were isolated from both mice a...

The increasing need for clean water can be attributed to a number of reasons, such as population growth, industrial development, and climate change. As result modern agricultural methods, the amount trash generated daily is also on rise. Waste management demand freshwater are two most pressing problems facing human race today in future. This study makes an attempt strike balance between these c...

The desire to improve engraftment following transplantation of limited numbers of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) has spurred the investigation of ex vivo stem cell expansion techniques. While surrogate outcomes, such as an increase in SCID-repopulating cells, suggest successful stem cell expansion in some studies, it is not clear that such assays predict outcomes using a more clinically relevan...

The desire to improve engraftment following transplantation of limited numbers of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) has spurred the investigation of ex vivo stem cell expansion techniques. While surrogate outcomes, such as an increase in SCID-repopulating cells, suggest successful stem cell expansion in some studies, it is not clear that such assays predict outcomes using a more clinically relevan...