Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of visual impairment. Anti–vascular endothelial growth factor drugs used to treat AMD carry the risk inducing subretinal fibrosis. We investigated use adrenomedullin (AM), vasoactive peptide, and its receptor activity-modifying protein 2, RAMP2, which regulate vascular homeostasis suppress The therapeutic potential AM-RAMP2 system was ev...

Hepcidin is an innate immune element which decreases the iron absorption from diet and iron releasing from macrophage cell. In contrast to the chemical iron chelators, there has been limited effort applied to the specific use of hepcidin as a new drug for decreasing the iron overload. Hepcidin is produced in different biological systems. For instance, E-coli is used for human hepcidin expressio...

the purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (icsi) and piezo-assisted sperm injection after pretreatment with calcium ionophore (cai) on the mouse embryo development. methods: in this study, the conventional icsi and piezo-icsi procedures were used. the efficacy of the methods was examined after mouse matured oocytes were fertilized with or witho...

This study was designed to examine the effects of retinoic acid adding to cumulus and/or fibroblast cellsmonolayer on the development of mouse early embryos. One-cell mouse embryos were obtained from NMRImice after superovulation by an intraperitoneal injection of 5 IU equine chorionic gonadotrophin (eCG)followed 48 hrs later by 5 IU human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG). Mouse embryonic fibrobla...

introduction: the aim of this study was evaluate the ability of notochord to induce neural induction and/or differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cell to neuron and motor neuron, respectively. methods: in order to produce embryoid bodies, es cells line royan b1 were grown in suspension in the absence of lif for 4 days. ebs were divided into 4 groups. ebs in group 1 & 2 were further cultured i...

hepcidin is an innate immune element which decreases the iron absorption from diet and iron releasing from macrophage cell. in contrast to the chemical iron chelators, there has been limited effort applied to the specific use of hepcidin as a new drug for decreasing the iron overload. hepcidin is produced in different biological systems. for instance, e-coli is used for human hepcidin expressio...

background: the preparation of endometrium for embryo reception and implantation are controlled by ovarian hormones. these hormones have distinct cyclical changes during estrus cycle. objective: the aim of this study was to evaluate the changes in morphology and morphometrical indices of endometrium by daily injections of estrogen and progesterone in ovariectomized mouse. materials and methods:...

We first study the suitability of behavioral biometrics to distinguish between computers and humans, commonly named as bot detection. then present BeCAPTCHA-Mouse, a detector based on: i) neuromotor model mouse dynamics obtain novel feature set for classification human samples; ii) learning framework involving real synthetically generated trajectories. propose two new trajectory synthesis metho...

This article aims to present the authors’ perspective regarding challenges and opportunities of mouse-tracking methodology while performing experimental research, particularly related map-reading process. We briefly describe existing metrics, visualization techniques software tools utilized for qualitative quantitative analysis mouse-movement data towards examination both perceptual cognitive i...

objective: the brucella melitensis virb operon, encoding a type iv secretion system (t4ss), is required for intracellular replication and persistent infection in the mouse model. the product of the second gene of the virb operon, virb2, is predicted to be localized at the bacterial surface, where they could potentially interact with host cells. studies to date have focused on characterization o...