Background Chromomycin A3 (CMA3) staining has been used to assess protamine deficiency. The aim of this study was to determine credibility of CMA3 along with semen parameters for assessment of fertility potential. MaterialsAndMethods Semen analysis and CMA3 staining were carried out on 234 fertile and 178 subfertile individuals. Semen analysis was assessed according to WHO criteria. Protamine d...

Three structurally related anticancer drugs, mithramycin, chromomycin A3, and olivomycin, exhibited large differences (>100fold) in their toxicity towards cultured cells from various species. These differences are species related, as all cell lines from any one species showed similar sensitivity to the three drugs. Of the three species examined, namely, human, mouse, and Chinese hamster, human ...

various cultured cells by actinomycin D or chromomycin A3 (1 1, 12, 23). In all these cell types, the nucleolar shape seems to reflect a low rate of nucleolar RNA synthesis. Although the ultrastructural morphology of undifferen tiated and well-differentiated cells of lymphosarcomas (poorly and well-differentiated malignant lymphomas) is very similar to leukemic lymphocytes in various stages of ...

The male karyotypes of Acmaeodera pilosellae persica Mannerheim, 1837 with 2n=20 (18+neoXY), Sphenoptera scovitzii Faldermann, 1835 (2n=38-46), Dicerca aenea validiuscula Semenov, 1895 - 2n=20 (18+Xyp) and Sphaerobothris aghababiani Volkovitsh et Kalashian, 1998 - 2n=16 (14+Xyp) were studied using conventional staining and different chromosome banding techniques: C-banding, AgNOR-banding, as we...

In vitro chemosensitivity of urological cancers was assessed by a human tumor colony forming assay (HTCA) and a 3H-thymidine incorporation assay. Primary tumor cells from 160 of 253 (63%) urological cancers showed adequate colony growth (greater than 30 colonies per well), and there was a 57% true positive and 100% true negative rate for predicting clinical response of anticancer agents. On the...

The title compound, C(6)H(12)O(5), is the α-pyran-ose form of the reducing aldose 2-de-oxy-d-arabino-hexose. The six-membered pyran-ose ring adopts a (4)C(1) conformation, with the anomeric hy-droxy group in axial and the other substituents in equatorial positions. In the crystal, each of the four hy-droxy groups acts as an inter-molecular hydrogen-bond donor function, resulting in a three-dime...

DNase I and MPE.Fe (II) footprinting both employ partial cleavage of ligand-protected DNA restriction fragments and Maxam-Gilbert sequencing gel methods of analysis. One method utilizes the enzyme, DNase I, as the DNA cleaving agent while the other employs the synthetic molecule, methidium-propyl-EDTA (MPE). For actinomycin D, chromomycin A3 and distamycin A, DNase I footprinting reports larger...