Formaldehyde (FA) is a genotoxic and mutagenic substance. In 2004, IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer) concluded that FA is carcinogenic in humans after reevaluating the available evidence on the carcinogenicity of FA. Although many studies have shown that FA had extensive genotoxicity including DNA-protein crosslinks (DPC) and DNA single strand breaks (DSSB), most of these studi...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a fatal muscle disease that is often associated with cognitive impairment. Accordingly, dystrophin is found at the muscle sarcolemma and at postsynaptic sites in neurons. In muscle, dystrophin forms part of a membrane-spanning complex, the dystrophin-associated protein complex (DPC). Whereas the composition of the DPC in muscle is well documented, the existence of...

We have evaluated two commercially available 125I radioimmunoassay kits (Diagnostic Products Corp., DPC; and Radioassay Systems Laboratories, RSL) for measurement of serum or plasma progesterone, to determine their suitability for use in in vitro fertilization programs. Both kits were suitably rapid for program requirements. Results by both were linear with concentration up to 60 nmol/L, and bo...

Mouse fetal ovaries were cultured to investigate germ cell development in the presence of a combination of the growth factors (GFs) stem cell factor, insulin-like growth factor-1 and leukaemia inhibitory factor. Ovaries were isolated from fetal mice at 13 and 14 days post-coitum (dpc) and cultured to the equivalent of 17 dpc. Culture conditions comprised minimal essential medium-alpha plus 5% f...

• Characterizing and valorizing date processing waste are reviewed. Date (DPC) rich in chemicals nutrients. DPC have the potential to be used as a bioeconomy feedstock. We still need lab pilot studies before is valorized. Characterization of rarely considered. In Middle East North Africa, dates traditional economically valuable crop, playing an essential role people's daily diets. fruit product...

The PAG family is encoded by distinct genes expressed in extra-embryonic chorionic membranes (TR--trophoblast, TRD--trophectoderm) of various pregnant mammals. The objective of our study was to determine N-glycodiversity of porcine PAG protein family (pPAG) produced in vitro by TR or TRD explants of gilts (n=26) throughout pregnancy (16-77 dpc). Explants were cultured for over 1200 h (TR, 16 dp...

Despite its many advantages, the conventional direct power control (DPC) of shunt active power filters (SAPF) poses some problems. This paper investigates the design of a new control technical combining DPC control and passivity theory (PT) to ensure quasi-sinusoidal grid currents, under various conditions of the source voltages. The proposed approach (DPC-PT) appeals to the theory of symmetric...

Defined sets of transcriptional factors can reprogram human somatic cells to induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. However, many types of human cells are not easily accessible to minimally invasive procedures. Here we evaluated dental pulp cells (DPCs) as an optimal source of iPS cells, since they are easily obtained from extracted teeth and can be expanded under simple culture conditions. From...

We evaluated the analytical performance and clinical utility of three dual-label simultaneous assays for lutropin and follitropin by comparison with widely used individual assays for these analytes (Diagnostic Products Corp.; DPC). Of the three assays evaluated, "Cotropin" (Clinetics Corp.) and "Combostat" (Micromedics Systems, Inc.) compared favorably with the DPC assay with respect to recover...

Picosecond laser induced fluorescence measurements provide for the first time the direct meanrrement of the intramolccular and intermolecular energy decay dynamics of singlet diphenylcarbene (’ DPC) in the presence of reactive molecules. As exemplified by the reaction of ’ DPC with alcohols it is found that reactive molecules provide ’ DPC witi not only a chemical decay channel but also an intr...