conclusions according to our study, phototherapy should not be used as prophylactic therapy for all vlbw infants, but rather it should be individualized in order to maintain low bilirubin levels. results the mean bilirubin level on the first day in both groups exhibited no significant difference. the peak serum bilirubin was 7.7 ± 1.4 and 8.5 ± 2.1 mg/dl in the prophylactic and therapeutic grou...

Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching (FRAP) has been a versatile tool to study transport and reaction kinetics in live cells. Since the fluorescence data generated by fluorescence microscopy are in a relative scale, a wide variety of scalings and normalizations are used in quantitative FRAP analysis. Scaling and normalization are often required to account for inherent properties of diffus...

The total phenolic content and related total antioxidant capacity of 70 medicinal plant infusions was analyzed. Infusions were prepared in common way in which teas are prepared for human consumption. The total phenolics were measured by Folin–Ciocalteau assay. The total antioxidant capacity was estimated by Ferric Reducing/Antioxidant Power (FRAP) assay. To make practical comparison of relative...

FRAP (fluoride-resistant acid phosphatase)-reactivity in the substantia gelatinosa of the mouse spinal trigeminal nucleus caudalis (STNC) was examined by light and electron microscopy. Degenerated figures of terminals caused by capsaicin were compared with the FRAP-positive terminals. Scalloped (fan-like) or indented, sinuous, slender, and cap-like figures with closely packed agranular synaptic...

Susceptibility to mouse plasmacytomagenesis is a complex genetic trait controlled by several Pctr loci (Pctr1, Pctr2, etc). Congenic strain analysis narrowed the genetic interval surrounding the Pctr2 locus, and genes identified in the interval were sequenced from susceptible BALB/c and resistant DBA/2 mice. Frap (FKBP12 rapamycin-associated protein, mTOR, RAFT) was the only gene differing in a...

Objectives. The total antioxidant capacity (TAC) of a sample can be measured with a ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) assay. There are commercially available kits for FRAP assays, however they are more expensive than in-house kits. We aimed to evaluate a FRAP direct measurement method under our laboratory conditions using a microplate reader and establish reference values to use in futur...

BACKGROUND Macromolecule mobility is often quantified with Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching (FRAP). Throughout literature a wide range of diffusion coefficients for GFP in the cytoplasm of Escherichia coli (3 to 14 µm²/s) is reported using FRAP-based approaches. In this study, we have evaluated two of these methods: pulsed-FRAP and "conventional"-FRAP. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS To address ...

Background and Aims: Bilirubin has been considered an antioxidant that protects against atherosclerosis. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship of serum bilirubin level with the severity and complexity of coronary artery disease (CAD) and long-term outcome in the patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Materials and Methods: This prospective coho...

background: neonatal jaundice is clinically presented in 60% of full-term newborns. about 8% of newborns with jaundice have urinary tract infection (uti) without any other clinical signs in favor of uti. in present study we evaluated clinical and paraclinical data that help to rapid and early diagnosis of uti in apparently healthy newborns with jaundice.   methods: from february to august 2006,...