BACKGROUND There has been no effective treatment or agent that is available for corneal injury in promoting corneal wound healing. Previous studies on edible bird's nest extract (EBN) had reported the presence of hormone-like substance; avian epidermal growth factor that could stimulate cell division and enhance regeneration. This study aimed to investigate the effects of EBN on corneal keratoc...

Dietitians can obtain nutrition-related information from a variety of sources. The current study was to investigate how registered dietitians look for nutritional information and perceive evidence-based nutrition (EBN). A postal questionnaire survey was conducted, with 67 valid returns collected. The most common informational sources were Web portals, followed by continuing education, colleague...

BACKGROUND Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder affecting the senile population with manifestation of motor disability and cognitive impairment. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) is implicated in the progression of oxidative stress-related apoptosis and cell death of the midbrain dopaminergic neurons. Its interplay with mitochondrial functionality constitute...

The human colonic adenocarcinoma cell line (Caco-2 cells) and a macrophage cell line (RAW 264.7 cells) are widely used in vitro model to study the intestinal system and Tumor Necrosis Factoralpha (TNF-α) release in cells, respectively. The objectives of this study were to assess the proliferative effect of EBN on Caco-2 cells and its effect on TNF-α release in RAW cells. The percentage of cell ...

been found in many plant and animal species (Kaul their genetic diversity. In addition to simple disomic and Murthy 1985; Hawley 1993; Dawe 1998; Lindsey inheritance, the employment of haploids has the great 1999). A number of comprehensive reviews surveying advantage for improvement of 2x hybrid populations. research activities with these natural and induced muThese 2x hybrids obtained by this...

BACKGROUND Edible birds' nest (EBN) is reported to be antioxidant-rich. However, the fate of its antioxidants after oral consumption is not yet reported. To explore this, we hypothesized that EBN antioxidants are released from their matrix when subjected to in vitro simulated gastrointestinal digestion. METHODS EBN samples were extracted using hot water (100°C) with or without subsequent sequ...

We introduce an expandable Bayesian network (EBN) to handle the combination of diverse multiple homogeneous evidence sets. An EBN is an augmented Bayesian network which instantiates its structure at runtime according to the structure of input. We show an application of an EBN for a multi-view 3-D object description problem in computer vision. The experiments show that the proposed method gives ...

Polyploidization has played a major role in the origin and evolution of polyploid species. In this article we outline the unique characteristics of 2n gametes and implications of their participation in the evolution of polyploid Solanum species. The genetic consequences of 2n gametes indicate that sexual polyploidization results in greater variability, fitness, and heterozygosity than does soma...

هيلع لوصلحا نكيم يذلا وه يبطلا ناهربلا يلع لوصلحا نكيم فنصتو يلماكتو يليلتح ،يفصو نوكي دق يتلاو ،جهن نم طاقن في صخلتو اهتيعونل اًقفو ةجردتم تايوتسم ىلإ ةلدلأا براجتلا ،ءاربلخا ءارآ نم ةلدلأا رداصم جردتتو .ةيصوتلا في ةوقلا بسانلما مادختسلاا نإ .يولتلا ليلحتلا ىتح ،ةطوبضلما ةيئاوشعلا ددحي ىضرلما ةياعرب ةلصلا تاذ تارارقلا ذاختا في ةيلالحا ةلدلأل لاقلما اذه في .ةلدلأا ىلع ةمئاقلا باصعلأاو خلما ةحارج...