background and objective: pneumocystis pneumonia (pcp) has been historically the most prevalent opportunisticinfection in patients infected with the human immunodeficiencyvirus. culture of the organism has not been faced with suitable success in artificial media, while various results have been reported for cell culture media. the aim of this study was proliferation of pneumocystis carinii on t...

Hepatoma cells derived from liver carcinoma are a candidate cell source for bioartificial (BAL) systems due to their high proliferative capacity, although function of hepatoma is considerably low compared with primary hepatocytes. In our previous study, genetically engineered mouse inducible were established by transducing liver-enriched transcription factor (LETF) genes. this we aimed develop ...

The concept of counterpulsation was introduced over four decades ago by Clauss et al. (1) and adapted to intra-aortic balloon pumping (IABP) by Moulopaulus et al. (2) in 1962, and it remains the most common mode of cardiac assist. Intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation (IABCP) was first introduced into clinical practice by Kantrowitz et al. (3) in 1968 for the treatment of cardiogenic shock. Ini...

9 PCR amplification of pure bacterial DNA is vital to the study of bacterial interactions 10 with corals. Commonly used bacterial-specific primers 8F and 27F paired with universal 11 primer 1492R amplify both eukaryotic and prokaryotic rDNA. An alternative primer set, 12 63F/1542R, is suggested to resolve this problem. 13

PCR amplification of pure bacterial DNA is vital to the study of bacterial interactions with corals. Commonly used Bacteria-specific primers 8F and 27F paired with the universal primer 1492R amplify both eukaryotic and prokaryotic rRNA genes. An alternative primer set, 63F/1542R, is suggested to resolve this problem.

To identify metastasis-related proteins in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), iTRAQ-tagging combined with 2D LC-MS/MS analysis was performed to identify the differentially expressed proteins (DEPs) in high metastatic NPC 5-8F cells and non-metastatic NPC 6-10B cells, and qRT-PCR and Western blotting were used to confirm DEPs. As a result, 101 DEPs were identified by proteomics, and 12 DEPs were se...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Thromboembolic events related to CAS continue to be the main limitation to the widespread use of this technique as a first-line treatment for carotid occlusive disease. Our aim was to evaluate thromboembolism during CAS using DWI for catheterization techniques of the carotid artery. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty-two consecutive patients with symptomatic carotid stenosis ...

Materials and methods From 2001 to 2007, 123 patients 62-86 y.o. (average 74), with GSV insufficiency, selected through ultrasound examination according to the features of GSV: duration reflux longer 1”; diameter between 5 and 12 mm; distance to skin > 5mm [1]; preterminal valve incompetent, terminal valve competent, regular path and bore. Patients were not affected by severe leg arteriopathy (...

In this paper, we obtain the general solution and the generalized Hyers-Ulam Rassias stability of the functional equation f(2x+ y) + f(2x− y) = 4(f(x+ y) + f(x− y))− 3 7 (f(2y)− 2f(y)) + 2f(2x) − 8f(x).