A punch biopsy of the axillary region was performed for histopathological study, staining with hematoxylin-eosin (Figure 2), periodic acid-Schiff (PAS), and Congo red. The histological findings included papillomatosis, orthokeratotic hyperkeratosis and epidermal acanthosis, focal atrophy of the granular layer, and mild hyperpigmentation of the basal layer of the epidermis. There was a moderate ...

Schiff bases of fatty acid hydrazides made from Oil recovered from spent bleaching earth (ORSBE) and Acid oil (AO)were prepared. These newly synthesized Schiff bases were characterized on the basis of FT-IR, elemental analysis and evaluated for biological performance. Schiff bases exhibited mild antibacterial activities against certain micro-organisms if compared with streptomycin used as stand...

Objective(s) Oxidative stress plays an important role in diabetic nephropathy pathogenesis. Rosmarinic acid, a plant phenolic compound, was first used as an antioxidant agent for inhibition of diabetic nephropathy. Material and Methods Forty male rats were uninephrectomized from the left flank.The rats were divided in four groups randomly; group one as control, group two diabetic untreatment...

In this study, we aimed to determine whether skeletal muscle cells per se are a source of interleukin (IL)-6 during contraction and whether IL-6 production is fiber type specific. Muscle biopsy samples were collected from seven males before (PRE) and after (POST) completing 120 min of continuous bicycle ergometry. Biopsies were sectioned and analyzed for the following: IL-6 protein detected by ...

REDUCTION IN THE MEAN AMOUNT of periodic acid-Schiff reactive material ( PASMa ) in neutrophil leukocytes from patients with chronic myelocytic leukemia ( CML ) has previously been noted with semiquantitative “score” methods.’m The PASMa studied in these investigations proved to be digestible with saliva or diastase and was therefore considered to consist of glycogen. So far, no attempt has bee...

The family Potamotrygonidae are the only species of stingrays restricted to fresh water and located exclusively in South America. objective this research was analyze morphological aspects germ cells male reproductive tract Potamotrygon amandae. samples were fixed 10% formalin, then dehydrated an ascending ethanol series (70 100%). To carry out light microscopy analyses, they embedded paraffin, ...

BACKGROUND Mucus hypersecretion and excessive cytokine synthesis is associated with many of the pathologic features of chronic airway diseases such as asthma. 6-Mercaptopurine (6-MP) is an immunosuppressive drug that is widely used in several inflammatory disorders. Although 6-MP has been used to treat asthma, its function and mechanism of action in airway epithelial cells is unknown. METHODS...