three experiments were conducted to study metabolizable energy, protein quality and chemical composition of four blood meal (bm) samples from local animal rendering plant during 20 days sampling. all experiments were designed in a completely randomized design. the result of first experiment showed that chemical composition averages of bm samples were: dm, 88.43; cp, 77.03; ee, 1.12; ash, 5.01; ...

A collection of related N by M images, such as a set of faces, may be modeled by a manifold embedded in an NM -dimensional Euclidean space called an image manifold. With the modeling of image spaces as manifolds, geometric properties of image manifolds can be studied either theoretically or experimentally. A practical result of the investigation of image manifolds provides an insight into image...

Inv(11)(p15q22)/NUP98-DDX10 rearrangement is a rare but recurrent chromosomal translocation associated with myeloid malignancies. Structural chromosomal rearrangements of the nucleoporin 98 gene (NUP98) at 11p15.4 produce NUP98 fusions with the DDX10 DEAD (Asp-Glu-Ala-Asp) box polypeptide 10 (DDX10) gene on chromosome 11q22 [1]. To date, only 15 such cases, except the present case, with de novo...

Dear Editor, The association of CLL with hematologic malignancies such as AML is relatively rare [1, 2], with mostly associated with prior cytotoxic chemotherapy [3]. Few reports of untreated CLL manifesting with or followed by AML suggested that each tumor probably evolved from simultaneous expansion of two independent clones, not a common clone [1]. Concomitant AML and CLL having a common clo...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the diagnostic value of CSF lactate (L(CSF)) for the diagnosis of bacterial meningitis (BM) following neurosurgery, and compare it with other CSF markers. METHODS Prospective study of consecutive neurosurgical postoperative patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Maciel Hospital. Patients with clinical suspicion of BM were categorised, according to preset c...

the present study was initiated to derive an indirect method for estimating body fat mass (bfm) and to evaluate the correlation between indirect anthropometric techniques for this estimation and to examine the relation of these parameters and of iq to age of menarche. a total of 578 adolescent girls of ten junior high schools in five educational districts of mashhad, participated in a cross sec...

The newly established ovarian cell line of Bombyx mori, DZNU-Bm-12 was tested for its susceptibility to homologous nucleopolyhedrovirus, BmNPV. The BmNPV was serially passaged in the cell line for five times along with the other four cell lines Bm-1, Bm-16 and Bm-17 which is established in our laboratory and Bm-5 is a widely used cell line. All the cell lines are susceptible to BmNPV. The overa...

Testicular torsion is a consequence of spermatic cord twisting which causes progressive damage to the structure of the testis and reduces sperm quality and usually results in infertility. In the present study, with the assumption of the protective effects of L-carnitine and betamethasone against ischemia-reperfusion (IR) injuries, their effects on twisted testicles were evaluated and compared. ...

BACKGROUND Steady-state bone marrow (SS-BM) and granulocyte colony-stimulating growth factor-primed BM/peripheral blood stem-cell (G-BM/G-PBSC) are the main stem-cell sources used in allogeneic hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation. Here, we evaluated the treatment effects of SS-BM and G-BM/G-PBSC in human leucocyte antigen (HLA)-identical sibling transplantation. METHODS A total of 226 pat...

Subcutaneous and perirenal adipose tissue from bovine animals that had different fat deposition patterns were characterized in terms of the weight of the adipose tissue organ and adipose cell number and mean cell size as determined by electronic counting of osmium-fixed adipose cells. Similar parameters were also measured in the interfascicular adipose tissue dissected from four muscles. Adipos...