Phytophthora species are considered as the major cause of several plant diseases resulting in huge yield losses in agricultural crops. Despite years of effort to develop Phytophthora resistance varieties, there is no reports of a resistant cucumber variety. In this study, the effect of concomitant application of potassium phosphite (KPhi) and chitosan on some physiological and molecular respons...

BACKGROUND Postherpetic neuralgia is pain that persists long after the disappearance of the cutaneous lesions of herpes zoster. However, the mechanisms of this delayed pain are unclear. Herpes simplex virus infection induces cutaneous lesions and pain-related responses in mice. The authors examined whether such responses would persist after the disappearance of the cutaneous lesions and whether...

One intracardiac inoculation of adenovirus 5 in guinea pigs leads to virus persistence in different organs, viz., 5 days in lungs and liver, 14 days in blood and lymph nodes, and 56 days or more in the spleen. After cultivation of tissue cells for 1 week, virus was recovered from blood, lymph nodes, or spleen lymphocytes, but virus could be detected directly in cells only when organs were remov...

The antitumor activities of forphenicinol against murine transplantable tumors were examined. Ehrlich carcinoma was suppressed by treatment with 0.08 approximately 0.31 mg/kg/day of forphenicinol given for 10 days starting 5 days after tumor inoculation. IMC carcinoma was also suppressed by treatment with 0.5 approximately 5 mg/kg/day given for 5 days starting 8 days after the inoculation. The ...

Thrombocytopenia is a frequent complication of acute leukemias of humans and animals. To define the possible causes of this decrease in platelets, we have studied platelet kinetics in mice after transplantation of 10(6) ascites cells from mice bearing L1210 leukemia. The circulating half-time of 51Cr-labeled platelets was reduced to approximately one-half that of controls when studied 1 or 3 da...

Ducks are important maintenance hosts for avian influenza, including H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses. A previous study indicated that persistence of H5N1 viruses in ducks after the development of humoral immunity may drive viral evolution following immune selection. As H5N1 HPAI is endemic in Indonesia, this mechanism may be important in understanding H5N1 evolution in that regio...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Our group has developed a collagen vitrigel sponge scaffold containing basic fibroblast growth factor (b-FGF) for tracheal reconstruction. In this study, we have investigated the regenerative process of tracheal epithelium histologically and morphologically. STUDY DESIGN A preliminary animal experiment. METHODS A collagen vitrigel sponge scaffold was fabricated with si...

systemic induction of peroxidase and polyphenoloxidase in tomato roots and stem followed by application of split root system method was investigated. root system of tomato seedling in the sixth growth stage were divided in two equal sections after washing and replanted in two adjacent pots and then inoculated with nematode and fungus as fallowing treatments. the second treatment was inoculation...