Sheep are an important component of livestock in terms of the various direct and indirect benefits human beings derive from them. However, various species of gastrointestinal nematodes (GIN) parasitize sheep and affect their productivity worldwide. The principal mode of control of GIN is based on chemical anthelmintics (CA) because it is simple, cheap and offers both therapeutic and prophylacti...

In the past few years, many convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been applied to hyperspectral image (HSI) classification. However, of them following drawbacks: they do not fully consider abundant band spectral information and insufficiently extract spatial HSI; all bands neighboring pixels are treated equally, so CNNs may learn features from redundant or useless bands/pixels; a significan...

Bauhinia vahlii Wright & Arn is a huge climber native mainly to India and has been cultivated as an ornamental plant in different regions including Eygpt. It belongs family Fabaceae (Caesalpinaceae), which grows Sub-Himalayan region at altitude of 3000m above sea level Assam, Central India, Eastern Western Ghats. The herb extensively utilised numerous traditional medical practises, Ayurveda, Un...

A family of four putative transporters (Arn1p–4p) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is expressed under conditions of iron deprivation and is regulated by Aft1p, the major iron-dependent transcription factor in yeast. One of these, Arn3p/Sit1p, facilitates the uptake of ferrioxamine B, a siderophore of the hydroxamate class. Here we report that ARN family members facilitated the uptake of iron from th...

Inducible nitrogen oxide synthase (iNOS) is the primary contributor of the overproduction of nitric oxide and its inhibitors have been actively sought as effective anti-inflammatory agents. In this study, we prepared 70% ethanol extracts from 81 Chinese herbs. These extracts were subsequently evaluated for their effect on nitrogen oxide (NO) production and cell growth in LPS/IFNγ-costimulated a...

Activation of androgen receptor (AR) is crucial for prostate cancer growth. Remarkably, also castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) is dependent on functional AR, and several mechanisms have been proposed to explain the addiction. Known causes of CRPC include gene amplification and overexpression as well as point mutations of AR. We report here the pharmacological profile of ODM-201, a nov...

BACKGROUND To report the outcome of oral valacyclovir as the sole antiviral therapy for patients with acute retinal necrosis (ARN). METHODS This study reports a retrospective, interventional case series of nine consecutive patients with ten eyes with newly diagnosed ARN treated with oral valacyclovir as the sole antiviral agent. Eight patients received oral valacyclovir 2 g tid (Valtrex, Glax...

BACKGROUND Acute retinal necrosis (ARN) syndrome is an uncommon but severe ocular disease that typically affects otherwise healthy individuals. It is frequently complicated with retinal detachment and the visual prognosis in such patients is usually poor. METHODS We operated on four eyes in four patients from 1999 through 2001. Three ophthalmologists in our hospital did these operations, resp...