The effects of heavy metals pollution in two Polish rivers on the genome of phylogenetically distant species of the family Chironomidae were studied. The concentrations of Pb, Zn and Cd in the channel sediments of Chechło and Biała Przemsza Rivers were many times higher than reference data, as a result of over 50 years of the lead and zinc ores extraction. In the studied species Prodiamesa oliv...

INTRODUCTION A novel population-based health index was identified, in addition to calculation of the rates of psychiatric disorder in a random sample from a large urban center. METHODS With use of the regional population as a sampling frame, 685,684 individuals (45.8% male) were selected randomly, with physician billing visit and cost data from 1994 to 2009 grouped on the basis of the presenc...

Background: Unilateral sporadic vestibular schwannomas (USVS) are caused by inactivating somatic mutations of both alleles of the neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2) tumor suppressor gene. Unilateral sporadic vestibular schwannomas have a widely-varying growth patterns whose causes are poorly understood. Objective: We examined the relationships between an index of USVS growth, and genetic abnormalities a...

BACKGROUND Among patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), depression is both common and underrecognized. The association of different manifestations of depression, somatic and cognitive, with depression recognition and long-term prognosis is poorly understood. METHODS AND RESULTS Depression was confirmed in 481 AMI patients enrolled from 21 sites during their index hospitalization wit...

Wen-San Huang (1996) Reproductive cycles and sexual dimorphism in the viviparous skink, Spenomorphus indicus (Sauria: Scincidae), from Wushe, central Taiwan. Zoological Studies 35(1): 55-61. Seasonal variation in the male and female reproductive cycles of the viviparous scincid Sphenomorphus indicus is described in this study. Mean snout vent length (SVL) of adult females (n = 50) (range: 76 to...

We have analyzed health and physiological aging parameters in male and female Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua, captured in Kattegat, Skagerrak and in Öresund. Gender differences were clearly evident in a number of variables. Males had longer liver telomeres and higher catalase activities than females, while females had higher superoxide dismutase activity, liver somatic index and condition factor. E...

The effect of contaminants on the genomes of Chironomus plumosus L. and Chironomus bernensis Wülker, Klötzli species was studied in the Dunajec River (station 1) and in the littoral of Czorsztyn Reservoir (stations 2 and 3). According to the index of geoaccumulation, the sediments were polluted by cadmium (Cd) and chromium (Cr). Cd concentrations at stations 1, 2, and 3 were 0.71, 0.56, and 1.2...

this study was carried out to investigate the morphological and anatomical aspects of somatic embryogenesis in date palm. lateral bud and shoot tip explants excised from young offshoots were cultured on ms medium with 2,4-d. somatic embryogenesis was in-duced by transferring the calli produced on the same medium without hormones. micro-tome sectioning of paraffin-embedded specimens was carried ...

mastitis is one of the most serious and costly diseases affecting dairy cattle production. in the present study, effects of a lactoferrin gene polymorphism (intron 6) on milk somatic cell count (scc) and subclinical mastitis was investigated in 121 holstein dairy cattle. two alleles of a and b and two genotypes of aa and ab were found in an ecori recognized single nucleotide polymorphism in int...

abstract somatic embryogenesis is a new approach to in vitro plant propagation. this technique is based on stem cell obtain and its differentiation to a complete plant. this is affected by components of media culture. so, the effects of ms, b5 and nl media on carrot petiole somatic embryogenesis investigated via histological experiment. to do this, carrot petioles (with 1 cm dimension) cultured...