Ecological studies on native and invasive populations of European perch Perca fluviatilis pumpkinseed Lepomis gibbosus are often based stable isotope (SI) analysis dorsal muscle, where samples usually taken from sacrificed fishes. However, other tissues, such as scale fin tissue, can be used non-lethal alternatives, their SI values standardised to muscle for comparative purposes. In both pumpki...

vitamin d deficiency is a worldwide epidemic, with well known impacts on calcium metabolism and bone health, but increasingly recognized associations with chronic health problems such as bowel and colonic cancer, arthritis, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. in recent years in the sports medicine literature, there has been an increased focus on the potential impact that inadequate vitamin d l...

The present study was carried out in 2011 to measure concentration of heavy metals chromium and tin in liver and muscle tissue of Liza aurata (golden grey mullet) in estuaries of the rivers Babolroud, Tajan and Gorganroud. Accordingly, after sampling the target are asandisolating muscle (18samples) and liver (18samples) tissues, they were digested and analyzed using Graphite Furnace Atomic Abso...

the environmental scanning electron microscopy (esem) is a new development in the field of electron microscopy. in this study esem has been used to study the structure of veal semimembranosus muscle. four treatments, raw (control), conventional heating, domestic and industrial microwave heating, were observed using esem. the temperature used in conventional heating was 163 0c. frequency app...

bladder cancer (bc) ranks the second most common genitourinary tract malignant tumor with high mortality and 70% recurrence rate worldwide. mirnas expression has noticeable role in bladder tumorigenesis. the purpose of this study was to assess mir-200c, mir-30b and mir-141 in tissue samples of patients with bc and healthy adjacent tissue samples and their association with muscle invasion, grade...

the current study is focused on determination of the accumulation rate of cadmium (cd) and lead (pb) in the liver and muscle tissues of the caspian kutum fish. specimens were collected randomly from twelve stations in mazandaran province, the caspian sea basin, between october 2009 and march 2010. fork length, weight and length-weight relationship of samples were measured. one-way analysis of v...

Muscle biopsy has been used for a long time for diagnosis of muscular, nerurogenic and systemic disorders with muscle involvement, because only very few of these disorders show sufficient specific clinical features for definite diagnosis. Since the presence of difficulties in the screening of numerous genes, muscle biopsy could be a time and cost effective procedure for solving the diagnostic p...