Calciphylactic blockade of Reticulo endothelial system (REB) was used to study the role of reticulo-endothelial system (RES) in hepatic regeneration. REB was induced by i.v. egg yolk administration in DHT sensitized animals, which were subsequently partially hepatectomized. Mitotic index and percentage regeneration were studied in these animals 48 hr after partial hepatectomy. REB produced a si...

The aim of the current study was to investigate effect different storage period on some external and internal egg quality ovalbumin levels goose eggs. alterations these traits have not been examined sufficiently in eggs during storage. For this purpose, a total 150 were from 50 weeks-old German origin Embden geese. stored under constant temperature (+4°C) ~ 60-65% relative humidity conditions f...

To examine the functional differentiation of chloride cells in the yolk-sac membrane of tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) embryos, we developed a 'yolk-ball' incubation system in which the yolk sac was separated from the embryonic body and subjected to incubation in vitro. The yolk-ball preparation consists of the yolk and the covering yolk-sac membrane, which contains a rich population of chlo...

402 Isolation and Differentiation of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells Obtained from Second Trimester Amniotic Fluid; Experiments at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Hsiu-Huei Peng, MD; Tzu-Hao Wang, MD, PhD; An-Shine Chao, MD; Shuenn-Dyh Chang, MD 408 Associations between Brain-derived Neurotrophic Factor G196A Gene Polymorphism and Clinical Phenotypes in Schizophrenia Patients Tiao-Lai Huang, MD; Chie...

Throughout this paper, we use intA and CoA to denote the interior and the convex hull of a set A, respectively. Let I be an index set. For each i ∈ I , let Yi, Ei be two Hausdorff topological vector spaces. Consider a family of nonempty convex subsets {Xi}i∈I with Xi ⊆ Ei. Let X = ∏ i∈I Xi and E = ∏ i∈I Ei. An element of the set Xi = ∏ j∈I\i Xi will be denoted by xi; therefore, x ∈ X will be wr...

the present study was conducted to estimate correlations among performance and egg quality traits in iranian native fowl. data were collected from 21,679 birdsat the isfahan native fowl breeding center to derive genetic parameters for performance traits and egg quality traits were measured on eggs of 1,020 birds. genetic correlations of performance and egg quality traits were estimated with a b...

objective(s): atherosclerosis is the main leading cause of cardiovascular diseases. the purpose of this study was to assess the potential preventive effect of egg yolk hdl on the atherosclerosis plaque formation. materials and methods: thirty rabbits were divided into five groups: a; normal diet, b; hyper-cholesterolemic diet, c; hypercholesterolemic + 400 mg/kg egg yolk hdl d; hypercholesterol...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients are at higher risk of developing lung cancer and its metastasis, but no suitable biomarker has been reported for differential diagnosis of these patients. Levels of serum biomarkers (VEGF, IL-8, MMP-9 and MMP-2) were analyzed in these patients, which were compared with healthy donors (HD). Levels of VEGF (P < 0.005) and MMP-9 (P < 0.05) were...