the transcriptional factor sox2 regulates the expression of some of the developmental genes, which are essential for the maintenance of pluripotency of stem cells. sox2 also expresses in the female gamete during folliculogenesis, but its role remains ambiguous. the aim of this study was to investigate the expression of sox2 in the mice ovarian tissue during different stage of estrous cycle. adu...

abstract background: the intracytoplasmic sperm injection procedure ending with total fertilization failure is very distressfull event for both the clinician and the patient. objective: the aim of this study was to identify independent factors which could be used to identify total fertilization failure before the day of intracytoplasmic sperm injection. materials and methods: this was a retrosp...

a special class of cubic graphs are the cycle permutation graphs. a cycle permutation graph pn(α) is defined by taking two vertex-disjoint cycles on n vertices and adding a matching between the vertices of the two cycles.in this paper we determine a good upper bound for tenacity of cycle permutation graphs.

introduction: estrogen and progesterone are supposed to modify pain sensitivity. however, the actual role of each of these steroid hormones in this respect is not well known. plasma concentrations of these hormones show variation during estrous cycle. the role of alpha2 receptors in tonic pain has been pointed out. the aim of the present study was to investigate the agonist and antagonist effec...

to investigate uterine fluid and serum copper (cu) and zinc (zn) variations during the estrous cycle in water buffaloes, 71 genital tracts and blood samples were collected from the abattoir in urmia, iran. the phase of the estrous cycle was determined by examining ovarian structures; 18, 15, 16 and 22 were pro-estrous, estrous, met-estrous and diestrous, respectively. the uterine fluid was coll...

for a given graph $g=(v,e)$, let $mathscr l(g)={l(v) : vin v}$ be a prescribed list assignment. $g$ is $mathscr l$-$l(2,1)$-colorable if there exists a vertex labeling $f$ of $g$ such that $f(v)in l(v)$ for all $v in v$; $|f(u)-f(v)|geq 2$ if $d_g(u,v) = 1$; and $|f(u)-f(v)|geq 1$ if $d_g(u,v)=2$. if $g$ is $mathscr l$-$l(2,1)$-colorable for every list assignment $mathscr l$ with $|l(v)|geq k$ ...

in this paper we define the removable cycle that, if $im$ is a class of graphs, $gin im$, the cycle $c$ in $g$ is called removable if $g-e(c)in im$. the removable cycles in eulerian graphs have been studied. we characterize eulerian graphs which contain two edge-disjoint removable cycles, and the necessary and sufficient conditions for eulerian graph to have removable cycles h...

water sources optimizing required a suitable irrigation program. different material can use to increase water use efficiency. superabsorbent is one of the materials where used in around the world. these materials put in the soil and absorb water so that reserved water is usable by plant in the time of drought stress and they can reduce stress and lead to prevent yield loss. therefore, the exper...

The study aims to identify long-term trends in the changes of drought occurrences using Mann-Kendall (MK) test and Theil-Sen estimator. Trend research was carried out on example catchment area Upper Note? River, which covers an agricultural Poland with some lowest water reserves. meteorological droughts were identified based Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), while hydrological determined ...