Transgenic mice possessing an ovine growth hormone gene were used to study the effects of elevated growth hormone on quantitative genetic variation. Males hemizygous for the transgene were mated to wild-type females to produce half- and full-sib families in which approximately half the progeny were transgenic and half were wild type. Analyses of body weights at 3-10 weeks, and weight gains from...

We describe our system for SemEval-2018 Shared Task on Semantic Relation Extraction and Classification in Scientific Papers where we focus on the Classification task. Our simple piecewise convolution neural encoder performs decently in an end to end manner. A simple inter-task data augmentation significantly boosts the performance of the model. Our best-performing systems stood 8th out of 20 te...

BACKGROUND Degraded and osteogenic property of coated magnesium alloy was evaluated for the fracture fixation in rabbits. METHODS Magnesium alloy AZ31 with a different coating thickness by microarc oxidation was used, and the bilateral radial fracture model was created by the bite bone clamp. Thirty-six New Zealand white rabbits in weight of 2.5~3.0 kg were randomly divided into A, B, and C g...

introduction: regarding the cross contamina-tion, prevention from infection is of high prior ity. the aim of this research was assessment of knowledge and attitude of dental students toward infection control in endodontics depart ment of faculty of dentistry, babol uni versity of medi cal sciences. materials and methods: the study was accom plished among 8th, 10th and 12th grade dental students...

We examined the effect on the Syrian hamster fetal pancrease of N-nitrosobis(2-oxopropyl)amine (BOP), a potent pancreatic carcinogen in adult hamsters. Pregnant Syrian hamsters (F0 generation) were treated with BOP (10 mg/kg body weight) at the 8th, 10th, 12th, and 14th days of gestation (for a total dose of 40 mg/kg body weight). Treatment was well tolerated and all hamsters delivered, at term...

objective(s):spinal cord injury (sci) is one of the most serious clinical diseases and its treatment has been a subject of interest to researchers. there are two important therapeutic strategies in the treatment of sci: replacing lost tissue cells through cells implantation and scar elimination. therefore, in this study we used human adipose-derived stem cells (hadscs) implantation and injectio...

AIM The aim of this study was to investigate the dose dependence of citicoline's previously-reported effects on recovery of peripheral nerve injury. MATERIAL AND METHODS Right sciatic nerves of sixty adult female Wistar Albino rats were incised and primary anastomosis was performed. Rats were then divided into four groups: Control group received 2 ml of saline intraperitoneally, while rats in...

A 5-month-old male child with normal birth events presented with history of asymmetric face, and inability to close left eye since birth. There was history of deviation of mouth while smiling, and gurgling sound from throat along with regurgitation of feed from nose on and off. Examination was suggestive of left sided infranuclear facial nerve and 8th , 9th ,10th, 12th cranial nerve palsy (FIG....

The incidence of congenital toxoplasmosis in Fischer rats infected between the 8th and 12th days of pregnancy with three different strains of Toxoplasma gondii (RH, 76K, and Prugniaud) were 58.2, 35.2, and 62.8%, respectively. No infected fetuses were collected from rats previously infected with RH or Prugniaud strain parasites, even if the rats were reinfected during pregnancy. Since pups from...