Cytotoxicity of depleted uranium, as a byproduct of military has been came to spotlight in recent decades. DU is known as a chemical rather than radioactive hazard and efforts to illustrating its mechanism is undergo, but the precise complete molecular mechanisms are still unclear. Recent studies showed that uranium induces biological changes in many different target tissues, such as the kid...

Trophoblasts perform different functions depending on their location. This study aimed to obtain structural clues about the of villous and extravillous trophoblasts by using light electron microscopy. Term placenta samples were obtained from 10 healthy pregnant women following cesarean sections. Frozen sections stained with hematoxylin-eosin, semi- thin toluidine blue examined a microscope, whi...

The hemizonid (6) is a ventro-lateral, commissure (7) which extends around the ventral side of nematodes between the hypodermis and the cuticle, stopping at the lateral fields (2, 4, 6, 8). Although the hemizonid has been recorded mainly from plant parasitic nematodes (1,4, 6, 7, 8), Timm (11) reported its presence in a wide variety of nematodes and suggested that it may be present t h r o u g ...

The application of calorimetric principles to the determination of phosphorus is especially desirable in view of the long drawn out and laborious gravimetric method now customarily employed. The accuracy of calorimetric methods, the ease with which most calorimetric procedures are carried on and their employment where only small amounts of material are available for analysis would make a reliab...

Microscopic ovary features of Zebrafish were analyzed. Samples were fixed in Bouin’s solution, mounted in parafin and cut into 6-7 μm-thick slices which were stained with Hematoxylin and Eosin (HE), methylene blue and using Periodic-acid Schiff method (PAS). The thin sections in ultramicrotome with the thickness of approximately 0,5 – 0,7 μm were examined by using Jeol electron microscope follo...

When ultrathin frozen sections of chicken cardiac muscle were osmicated, dehydrated in ethanol, embedded in ethyl cellulose, and stained with acidic uranyl acetate, filaments of 10-12 nm width were visualized in wide interfibrillar spaces. Immunostaining of the frozen sections for desmin resulted in exclusive labeling of such filaments. These observations indicated that longitudinally oriented ...

Human placental endogenous retroviral (ERV) particle isolates were investigated by ultrastructural evaluation. Although retrovirus-like structures in normal human placental tissue sections have been described, the precise nature of these particles has not previously been defined. By direct electron microscopic (EM) observation of placental ERV isolates that display retroviral reverse transcript...

AIMS To determine whether Coxiella burnetii, the aetiological agent of Q fever, undergoes endogenous spore-like formation, the crucial stage of the developmental cycle, in the infected cardiac valves of patients with chronic Q fever endocarditis. METHODS Surgically removed valves from three cases of Q fever endocarditis were processed for electron microscopy. Sections were stained with potass...

Objective. To investigate the effect of castration, bromocriptine and cyproterone acetate treatment on lysosomal hydrolytic enzymes and ultrastructure of the rat Harderian gland. Methods. Groups of rats were subjected to the treatment by bromocriptine, cyproterone acetate and castration. Harderian glands were dissected from each experimental animal, cut into small pieces and immediately stored ...

The structure of weeksite, K1.26Ba0.25Ca0.12[(UO2)2(Si5O13)]H2O, orthorhombic, a 14.209(2), b 14.248(2), c 35.869(4) Å, V 7262(2) Å3, space group Cmmb, has been solved by direct methods using data collected with MoK X-radiation and a CCDbased detector and refined by full-matrix least-squares techniques, on the basis of F2 for all unique reflections, to an agreement factor (R1) of 7.0% and a goo...