A high throughput regeneration protocol has been developed for Lagerstroemia speciosa through node explants under the regime of various plant growth regulators (PGRs). This can provide an alternative mode to seed-grown plants and minimize cost–time regeneration, significantly. Murashige Skoog (MS) medium containing combinations PGRs exhibited a marked stimulatory effect on morphogenesis. Of tri...

introduction: several radiotracers are being used for sentinel node mapping in patients with breast cancer. in the current study, we reported our experience with 99m-tc phytate for sentinel node mapping in mashhad university of medical sciences. methods: all breast cancer patients who underwent sentinel node mapping using 99m-tc phytate were included. all patients received intradermal peri-areo...

to review children with kawasaki disease admitted in 17-shahrivar hospital of rasht from 1999 to 2007. we reviewed retrospectively 64 children with kawasaki disease between 1999-2007 admitted in 17-shahrivar hospital of rasht. frequency distributions of variants including age, sex, season, clinical and laboratory manifestations, response to treatment and complications of the patients were abstr...

In this paper the properties of node-node adjacency matrix in acyclic digraphs are considered. It is shown that topological ordering and node-node adjacency matrix are closely related. In fact, first the one to one correspondence between upper triangularity of node-node adjacency matrix and existence of directed cycles in digraphs is proved and then with this correspondence other properties of ...

PURPOSE To demonstrate corneal endothelial (CE) integrity enhanced during eye banking by a brief treatment of human donor corneoscleral explant (explant) with CE autocrine trophic factor vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP). METHODS Paired explants were used as control versus VIP (10 nM)-treated before storage in corneal storage medium (4°C). CE ciliary neurotrophic factor receptor (CNTFRα) an...

Endothelin (ET) peptides stimulate AVP secretion via ETB receptors at hypothalamic loci. Nitric oxide modulates the actions of ET in the cardiovascular system and also influences neurotransmission and specifically suppresses firing of magnocellular neurons. The purpose of these studies was to ascertain whether nitric oxide, generated in response to ETB receptor stimulation, buffers the stimulat...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Understanding the fate and dynamics of cells during callus formation is essential to understanding totipotency and the mechanisms of somatic embryogenesis. Here, the fate of leaf explant cells during the development of embryogenic callus was investigated in the model legume Medicago truncatula. METHODS Callus development was examined from cultured leaf explants of the high...

OBJECTIVE In this study, we aimed to explore prognostic value of MASTL (microtubule-associated serine/threonine kinase-like) in breast cancer patients on the basis of ER status and molecular subtypes. MATERIALS AND METHODS The raw microarray data (GDS5666) of 4T1 derived bone-aggressive explant and primary tumor explant were reanalyzed to identify the dysregulated genes. To pool previous anno...

AIMS To develop an in vitro assay for the putative glutamyl endopeptidase, "aggrecanase", which is thought to degrade cartilage aggrecan, and to examine the role of the enzyme in tumour necrosis factor stimulated aggrecan cleavage. METHODS Aggrecan fragments released by bovine nasal cartilage explants, with and without exposure to tumour necrosis factor alpha, were purified and analysed by we...

The present study investigated the influence of trophic factors on the expression of cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript peptide (CARTp) in guinea-pig cardiac ganglia maintained in explant culture. In acutely isolated cardiac ganglia preparations, <1% of the cholinergic cardiac neurons exhibited CARTp immunoreactivity. In contrast, this number increased to >25% of the cardiac neurons ...