Background: Alcohol is a potent teratogen and alcohol use in pregnancy and the periconception period can cause many complications in mother, fetus and neonate.  Discussion: Alcohol in the mother's blood passes through the placenta to the baby through the umbilical cord. Drinking alcohol during pregnancy can cause miscarriage, stillbirth, and a range of lifelong disorders. Alcohol-related birth ...

Here we reported that, in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, deleting Swi1 (ScSwi1), a core component in Swi/Snf complex, caused defects of invasive growth, pseudohyphal growth, FLO11 expression, and proper cell separation. Re-introduction of SWI1 into the swi1 mutants could suppress all defects observed. We also showed that overproducing Swi1 could suppress the defect of flo8 cells in pseudohyphal grow...

in this study, the tio2 nanorods were synthesized from p25 tio2 nanoparticles by hydrothermal method in 10 m naoh solution. the effects of annealing temperatures on produced nanorods were investigated  by scanning  electron microscopy (sem) x-ray diffraction (xrd) and photoluminescence (pl) spectroscopy. diameter growth and  changes  of  surface  oxygen  defects of  synthesized nanorods are stu...

In the present study, the effects of growth defects and chromium content loss on the degradation of corrosion and passivation of cathodic arc evaporation (CAE-PVD) of stainless steel coating were investigated in 2 M sulphuric acid solution. EDS analysis indicated that the micro-particles were obtained during the coating growth. In addition, it was detected that the growth defects had poor adhes...