The issue of how basic sensory and temporal processing are related is still unresolved. We studied temporal processing, as assessed by simple visual reaction times (RT) and double-pulse resolution (DPR), in patients with partial vision loss after visual pathway lesions and investigated whether vision restoration training (VRT), a training program designed to improve light detection performance,...

We describe here a 3-month-old male infant with brachy-plagyocephaly, short neck, widely spaced nipples, mild hypertonia, and ambiguous external genitalia but with both testes in the scrotum and no Müllerian derivates. His karyotype was 45,X,der(Y;9)(q12;p24).ish der(Y;9)(DYZ3+,SRY+,9ptel-) de novo. This patient's impaired sex differentiation is consistent with gonadal dysgenesis and compares w...

BACKGROUND Palliative care is an approach that has been used to care for terminally ill patients. The current study was performed to assess the association between the status of patient dignity and quality of life (QOL) in Iranian terminally ill patients with cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS This descriptive correlational study was conducted on 210 end-stage cancer patients (102 men and 108 wome...

ATP hydrolysis by the isolated F1-ATPase drives the rotation of the central shaft, subunit , which is located within a hexagon formed by subunits ( )3. The C-terminal end of forms an -helix which properly fits into the “hydrophobic bearing” provided by loops of subunits and . This “bearing” is expected to be essential for the rotary function. We checked the importance of this contact region by ...

Flagellate green algae possess a visual system, the eyespot. In Chlamydomonas reinhardtii it is situated at the edge of the chloroplast and consists of two carotenoid rich lipid globule layers subtended by thylakoid membranes (TM) that are attached to both chloroplast envelope membranes and a specialized area of the plasma membrane (PM). A former analysis of an eyespot fraction identified 203 p...

This article reviews the relationship between the energy status of plant cells under O(2) stress (e.g. waterlogging) and the maintenance of membrane intactness, using information largely derived from suspension cultures of anoxia-intolerant potato cells. Energy-related parameters measured were fermentation end-products (ethanol, lactate, alanine), respiratory rate, ATP, adenylate energy charge,...

The purpose of the present study was to prepare inclusion complex of domperidone with hydroxylpropyl-β-cyclodextrin in order improved the solubility and hence to increase dissolution of domperidone. An effect of concentration of hydroxylpropyl-β-cyclodextrin on the aqueous solubility of domperidone was determined by phase-solubility method. The aqueous solubility of domperidone increased as a f...

Although archives today are more and more urged to preserve digital data, the processes in archives are still predominantly bound to the handling of traditional paper-based records and strongly depend on implicit knowledge, i.e., the processes through which records are being transferred to and stored and maintained in the archives are only roughly sketched and rarely explicitly documented (a fe...

From the pharmacological interest of fat-soluble riboflavin derivatives such as B2 But (1) and B2-Nic (2), it is important to show whether these compounds are, when ad ministered orally, incorporated through gastro intestinal tract into blood stream of mammals without losing their intactness of the ester bonds at 2•L, 3•L, 4•L and 5•L position. To test this, B2-Nic may be suitable because it is...

Plastids are functionally and structurally diverse organelles responsible for numerous biosynthetic reactions within the plant cell. Plastids from embryos have a range of properties depending upon the plant source but compared to other plastid types are poorly understood and therefore, we term them embryoplasts. Isolating intact plastids from developing embryos is challenging due to large starc...