In this paper, all graphs are simple, i.e., without self-loops or parallel edges, unless otherwise stated. A weighted graph G is a triple (V (G), E(G), costG), where V (G) is the vertex set of G, E(G) is the edge set of G, and costG is a function from E(G) to nonnegative reals, called the cost function of G. For each edge e of G, we call costG(e) the cost of e. Let G be a (weighted) graph. For ...

bronchial asthma is a multifactorial disease whereby both environmental and genetic factors contribute to its aetiology and/or clinical severity. the aim of this study was to examine the association of 22 cytokine gene polymorphism in the macedonian population with bronchial asthma (ba). the sample of the population comprised of 301 normal unrelated individuals and 74 patients with ba. cytokine...

background: pre-eclampsia (pe) is one of the most important and life-threatening pregnancy disorders that affect at least 3-5% of all pregnancies. imbalance in helper t cell functions may play a role in predisposing to pe or severity of the disease. elevated frequencies of th17 cells in the peripheral blood of pe patients have been reported. several single nucleotide polymorphisms (snp) within ...

background: toll-like receptor (tlr)-mediated inflammatory processes are supposed to be involved in pathophysiology of spontaneous abortion and preterm labor. here, we investigated functional responses of human endometrial stromal cells (escs) and whole endometrial cells (wecs) to lipopolysaccharide (lps) and lipoteichoic acid (lta). methods: endometrial tissues were obtained from 15 cycling wo...

background three single nucleotide polymorphisms (snps) near interleukin-28b (il-28b) gene were shown to be highly associated with treatment response (svr) in patients with chronic hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection. there is limited data about the role of single and combined il-28b polymorphisms in hcv-infected polish population. objectives this study's aim was to determine predictability of th...

HIGHLIGHTS Hydrogen-rich water can be applied as non-toxic compound for the treatment of bacterial infectious diseases fish without any residual effects on or water. IL-1β and IL-6 gene expression levels decreased with increase hydrogen in HRW could reduce prevent death zebrafish infected L. garvieae (G5).