background & aim: because of seed germination ability of medicinal plants seed is low and, generally exposed to problem. priming is one of the techniques that help seeds to be germinated faster and uniformly. experimental: a laboratory experiment was carried out on germination and growth improvement in heracleum persicum desf.  by seed osmo-primming in seed technology laboratory ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of mycophenolic acid (MPA) on the proliferation of rat pulmonary microvascular endothelial cells (PMVECs) and on the secretion of endothelin-1 (ET-1) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) by these cells. METHODS Rat PMVECs were treated with five different final concentrations of MPA (0, 0.1, 1, 10 and 100 μM). The fetal bovine serum-induced proliferation of the PMVECs w...

in this work, we investigated the stability of molybdate-phosphonic acid (mpa) complex by density functionaltheory (dft) computations in six solvents with the dielectric constant ranging from 1.92 to 10.36. the methodsare used for calculations are b3lyp and b3pw9 i that have been studied in two series of basis sets: d95nand6-31+g (d,p) for hydrogen and oxygen atoms; lanl2dz for mo and phosphoru...

Renal involvement is a common and often severe complication of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody (ANCA) associated vasculitides (AAV). With the exception of Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS), where kidney involvement is not a prominent feature, renal disease is present in about 70% of patients with Wegener's granulomatosis, now called granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) and in almost 100% ...

Most plant seeds tolerate desiccation, but vegetative tissues are intolerant to drastic dehydration, except in the case of resurrection plants. Therefore, changes in the regulation of genes normally expressed in seeds are thought to be responsible for the evolutionary origin of desiccation tolerance in resurrection plants. Here, we show that constitutive overexpression of the seed-specific HSFA...

Germination of Bacillus spores with a high pressure (HP) of ∼150 MPa is via activation of spores' germinant receptors (GRs). The HP germination of multiple individual Bacillus subtilis spores in a diamond anvil cell (DAC) was monitored with phase-contrast microscopy. Major conclusions were that (i) >95% of wild-type spores germinated in 40 min in a DAC at ∼150 MPa and 37°C but individual spores...

Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are induced not only under heat stress conditions but also under other environmental stresses such as water stress. In plants, HSPs families are larger than those of other eukaryotes. In order to elucidate a possible connection between HSP expression and photosynthetic acclimation or conditioning, we conducted a water stress experiment in loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L....

We examined self-reported frequency and severity of performance related musculoskeletal pain (PRMD), trigger point pain (TPP) and depression, social phobia (SPIN), and music performance anxiety (MPA; Kenny Music Performance Anxiety Inventory, K-MPAI) in a cross-sectional survey of 377 professional orchestral musicians. Most (84%) musicians had experienced performance impairing pain; 50% reporte...

This is a case study of a patient diagnosed with microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) and complicated with deep vein thrombosis (DVT), who died of respiratory failure despite treatment. Autopsy revealed severe crescentic glomerulonephritis and massive alveolar hemorrhage. The thrombus contained abundant neutrophils. Although it is reported that patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV) have an i...