background: matrix metalloproteinase-9 (mmp-9) gene -1562c/t polymorphism could regulate its expression level and thus affected people’s predisposition to essential hypertension. however, related studies yielded inconsistent or contradictory results. methods: to evaluate the association of mmp-9 -1562c/t polymorphism with essential hypertension, we performed a meta-analysis by combining all ava...

the fao penman - monteith (f-p-m) method is now broadly accepted as the standard for estimating the reference evapotranspiration (et0). the method is also now used for evaluating the temperature-based [blaney-criddle (b-c) and hargreaves-samani (h-s)] and radiation-based [jensen-haise (j-h) and turc (tc)] methods. the objective was to compare the et0 estimated by the b-c, h-s, j-h, tc methods w...

alzheimer's disease (ad) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by memory and cognitive dysfunction due to neuronal cell loss in higher brain centers. senile plaques containing amyloid β (aβ) are associated with this disease as well as a reduction in cholinergic neuron numbers. tacrine is a reversible cholinesterase inhibitor in clinical use to treat moderate forms of ad. chit...

in the human genome, chromosome 11 contains a cluster of matrix metalloproteinase (mmp) genes. single nucleotide polymorphisms in the promoter region of mmp genes are important for mmp expression. a common adenine deletion polymorphism (5a) at position -1171 of the mmp-3 gene promoter (5´-aaaaaaccat-3´ change to 5´-aaaaaccat-3´) facilitates transcriptional factor binding and mmp-3 promoter acti...

in order to investigate the effects of municipal waste compost and benefit fungi of trichoderma species on seedling emergence parameters, growth and some micronutrients uptake of garden cress a pot experiment was carried out in factorial arrangement based on randomized complete block design with 3 replications. treatments consisted of three levels of municipal waste compost (15, 30, 45 mg ha-1 ...

a comprehensive study pertaining to the emulsion liquid membrane (elm) extraction process to enrich dilute aqueous solutions of silver salt is presented. the study has highlighted the importance and influence of membrane composition for maximizing the extraction of ag+ ions. the liquid membrane was made up of cyanex-302 as an extractant and the industrial solvent mainly consists of paraffinic a...

tio2 nanoparticles were synthesized by modified sol—gel method using pure room temperature ionic liquid(rtil) 2-hydroxyethylammonium formate as a reaction medium. the structure and morphology of tio2nanoparticles were characterized with x-ray powder diffraction (xrd), bet surface analysis and scanningelectron microscopy (sem). tio2 nanoparticles were synthesized in open and closed vessels. the ...

palm date leaves were processed with lime in a processing reactor in a factorial arrangement of treatments (3 × 3) with 3 levels of temperatures (40, 80 and 100°c) and time periods (80, 160, and 240 minutes) in a completely randomized design. fermentation parameters measured using gas production technique. with increasing pretreatment time and temperature lignin content reduced from 13.0 percen...

introduction: acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all ) is the most worldwide common type of childhood cancer. methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (mthfr) and 5-methyltetrahydrofolate-homocysteine methyltransferase (mtr) are crucial enzymes in folate pathways. folate availability is critical factor for dna integrity, required for the transfer of methyl group in the biosynthesis of thymidilate. proced...