Antigenic and structural variation in the major nucleocapsid protein, VPN41, from different strains of respiratory syncytial (RS) virus was observed using a combination of monoclonal antibodies and two-dimensional peptide mapping. Limited trypsin treatment of intact nucleocapsids produced two peptide fragments Mr 27K and Mr 14K. Two monoclonal antibodies, N1 and N2, reactive with primary sequen...

In this study, histopathological and immunohistochemical evaluations were made on the damage to gastric tissue in peptic ulcer model induced by indomethacin, it was investigated whether plants Hypericum perforatum Rosa spinosissima have a therapeutic effect. order create an model, 25mg/kg indomethacin administered orally rats other groups, except sham control group, 2 doses, 24 hours apart. tre...

Ring sideroblasts (RS) are a distinct morphological feature present in myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative neoplasms (MDS/MPN) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The International Working Group on Morphology of Myelodysplastic Syndrome (IWGM-MDS) defines them as erythroblasts with a minimum of 5 siderotic granules covering at least one third of the circumference o...

BACKGROUND Medical circumstances in Japanese patients with cancer of the corpus uteri have greatly changed since the late 1990s, including the introduction of concomitant therapy with taxane and platinum. We evaluated changes in survival rates for this cancer following these advances by analyzing data from population-based cancer registries in Japan. METHODS Data were available for 8562 cases...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) risk is modulated by diet and there is convincing evidence of reduced risk with higher non-digestible carbohydrates (NDCs) consumption. Resistant starch (RS), a NDC, positively modulates the expression of oncogenic microRNAs, suggesting that this could be a mechanism through which NDCs protect against CRC. The present study aimed to investigate the effects of supplementa...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to evaluate if the immunohistochemical expression of a pulmonary apoptosis marker and plasma level of Fas ligand (FasL) correlates with the dose- and time-dependent severity of lung injury, induced by the administration of lipo-polysaccharide (LPS) in an endotoxemic rat model. MATERIALS AND METHODS Our study included 30 male Wistar rats, randomly divid...

Resistant Starch (RS) is one of nature’s most interesting bioactive compounds. There is a wide variety of starchy food plants in Thailand that are good sources of RS, but they have not been well studied. As such, this study was carried out to investigate the potential food source of RS. Twenty-two promising food plants were selected. The samples included (1) cereals comprised of five long grain...