at the crop level, the drought stress accounts for most variations in yield. a controlled glasshouse investigation at day/night temperatures of 22/15°c based at perth city, western australia was performed (in 2006) to assess the influence of different soil moisture contents (field capacity percentage basis) on emergence as well as early plant growth in twenty chickpea genotypes. the experiment ...

background: an association between lung cancer and chemokines has been advocated in the recent years. this study aims at investigating the association between lung cancer and 16c/a single nucleotide polymorphism (snp) (rs. 4359426) in c-c motif chemokine 22 (ccl22) as well as c1014t snp (rs. 2228428) in c-c chemokine receptor type 4 (ccr4), which serves as the receptor for ccl22. methods: genot...

background and aims. lichen planus is a relatively common chronic mucocutaneaous disease with an unknown cause, and is considered a manifestation of cell-mediated immune response. hepatitis c virus (hcv) and its subgroups have been associated with lichen planus in different geographic locations. the present study was undertaken to evaluate the prevalence of hcv antibody in patients with lichen ...

background: ccl22 is a chemokine that induces the migration of th2- and regulatory t cells to the inflammatory sites. the aim of this study was to investigate the association of a single nucleotide polymorphism (snp), rs4359426, in ccl22 gene, with multiple sclerosis (ms) in patients from southeast of iran. materials and methods: the blood samples collected from 150 patients with ms and 150 hea...

background: metabolic syndrome (mets) is a prevalent disorder in pediatric age groups, described by a combination of genetic and environmental factors. sterol regulatory element‑binding transcription factor 1 (srebf‑1) induces the expression of a family of genes involved in fatty acid synthesis. moreover, dysregulation of mir‑33b, which is located within the intron 17 of the srebf‑1 gene, disru...