objective articular cartilage as an avascular skeletal tissue possesses limited capacity to heal. on the other hand, it is believed that the regeneration capacity of each tissue is largely related to its stem cell contents. little is known about the presence of mesenchymal stem cells in articular cartilage tissue. this subject is investigated in the present study. materials and methods articula...

conclusions it seems that plantar changes have insignificant effect on static and dynamic indices evaluated by the biodex balance system. objectives the current study aimed to evaluate the relation between these structural characteristics and balance indices. patients and methods the study population was 100 male and female students from semnan university of medical sciences, semnan, iran. to e...

The chapters throughout this volume illustrate the many contributions of mitochondria to the maintenance of normal cell and tissue function, experienced as the health of the individual. Mitochondria are essential for maintaining aspects of physiology as fundamental as cellular energy balance, the modulation of calcium signalling, in defining cellular redox balance, and they house significant bi...

Guidelines and purposes for case study submissions to Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research are presented in this article. The purposes of empirical research studies and case studies are reviewed and differentiated. Common problems with case studies submitted to the journal are identified. Recognizing that the intent is not to be narrowly prescriptive, detailed suggestions are ma...

Predictive modeling is the key factor for saving time and resources with respect to manufacturing processes such as fermentation arising e.g. in food chemical processes. According Zhang et al. (2002), open-loop dynamics of yeast are highly dependent on initial cell mass distribution. This can be modeled via population balance models describing single-cell behavior cell. There have already been ...

Graves' ophthalmopathy (GO) is considered to be an organ-specific autoimmune disease. However, the pathogenesis of GO is incompletely understood at the present time. To clarify the immunological differences between newly diagnosed GO and Graves' disease (GD) without ophthalmopathy or healthy controls (HC), we examined T-cell profile and the Th1/Th2 profile cell balance in GO (n=20), GD (n=20) a...