Sheep intelectin1 and sheep intelectin3 (sITLN1 and sITLN3) were cloned and sequenced. The amino acid sequences of sITLN1 and sITLN3 shared 86% and 91% homology with the previously cloned sheep intelectin2 (sITLN2), respectively. Expression of sITLN1 and sITLN3 transcript was demonstrated in abomasum, lung, colon and gastric lymph node, terminal rectum, skin, jejunum, mesenteric lymph node, ile...

Background: The airway surface liquid (ASL), which is a ï‌‚uid layer coating the interior epithelial surface of the bronchi and bronchiolesis, plays an important defensive role against foreign particles and chemicals entering lungs.Objective: Numerical investigation has been employed to solve two-layer model consisting of mucus layer as a viscoelastic fluid and periciliary liquid layer as a New...

Cortisol is the major endogenous glucocorticoid (GC) both in human and fish, mediated by corticosteroid receptors. Due to the absence of aldosterone production in teleost fish, cortisol is also traditionally accepted to function as mineralocorticoid (MC); but whether it acts through the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) or the mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) remains a subject of debate. Here, we use...

Skates and rays, which are widely encountered in the by-catch of fisheries activities from Sea Marmara banned for sale by regulation, species that discarded if caught. For this reason, our study, we aimed to determine bioactive potentials these species, considered fishing waste, investigating skin secretions microbial flora. In both flora mucus contents Dasyatis pastinaca (Linnaeus,1758), Mylio...

Healthy individuals have few goblet cells in their airways, but in patients with hypersecretory diseases goblet-cell upregulation results in mucus hypersecretion, airway plugging, and death. Multiple stimuli produce hypersecretion via epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) expression and activation, causing goblet-cell metaplasia from Clara cells by a process of cell differentiation. These cel...

a number of studies have attempted to demonstrate the antibacterial properties of skin mucus from different species of fish such as turbot, atlantic salmon, rainbow trout, gold fish, seabass, seabream, flounder, barramundi, cichlid and yellowtail . however, most have suffered from alack of definitive data concerning the virulence of the organisms used for in vitro assessment of antibacterial pr...

  Effect of Cervical Mucus Aspiration with Insulin Syringe on Pregnancy Rate in ART Cycles     A. Aflatoonian MD1*, M. Asgharnia MD 2, N.Tabibnejad GP3     1- Associated Professor, Dept. of Gynecology, University of Medical Sciences and Research and Clinical Center of Infertility, Yazd, Iran   2- Assistant Professor, Dept. of Gynecology, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran   3- G...