In recent years, many research studies have been conducted on the effects of magnetic field on plants. But certain mechanisms regarding magnetic influences have not been defined yet. In this study, effects of magnetic fields (MF) on the growth parameters and enzyme activities of Helianthus annuus L. were investigated. Sterilized seeds in sterile conditions were exposed to 0, 0.5, 1 and 1.5 mT o...

Background The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of applying the 1-mT magnetic field (MF) in the ovarian tissue vitrification. MaterialsAndMethods Ovaries of 6-8 week-old Naval Medical Research Institute female mice randomly were divided into 5 groups: V1: Ovaries that immediately after leaving of the mice body, were examined histologically (control group), V2: Ovaries that withou...

In this paper, we propose a successive interference cancellation (SIC) detector which utilises multiple feedback (MF) candidates for cancellation stages and a dynamic log-likelihoodratio (LLR)-based dynamic reliability ordering (RO) of the cancellation stages in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. The proposed multi-feedback reliability-ordered SIC (MF-RO-SIC) detector’s performance...

Previously, we found that exposure to a 50-Hz magnetic field (MF) at 0.4 mT could induce epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor clustering in Chinese hamster lung (CHL) fibroblast cells and superposition of an incoherent MF with the same intensity could inhibit the effect. In the present experiment, we investigated the effects of 50-Hz MF exposure at different intensities on EGF receptor cluste...

Meal-fed (MF) rats with access to food for only 4 consecutive hours during the light cycle learn to eat large meals to maintain energy balance. MF animals develop behavioral and endocrine changes that permit glucose tolerance despite increased meal size. We hypothesized that enhanced activity of the enteroinsular axis mediates glucose homeostasis during MF. Cohorts of rats were allocated to MF ...

OBJECTIVE Transformed mycosis fungoides (T-MF) is a rare variant of MF with an aggressive course. In this study, we aimed to describe characteristics of MF/Sezary syndrome (SS) patients with transformation. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients diagnosed with T-MF among MF/SS patients between 2000 and 2014 in a tertiary single center were evaluated retrospectively. Demographic data, clinical data, l...

Digital image processing (DIP) of bacterial smears is a new method of analysing the composition of the gut microbial flora. This method provides the opportunity to compare and evaluate differences in the complex highly concentrated anaerobic fraction of gut microbial flora, based on micromorphological differences. There is ample evidence that this fraction can be characterized as related or unr...

Schistosomiasis is an endemic parasite disease and praziquantel is the only drug currently in use to control this disease. Experimental and epidemiological evidence strongly suggests that Microtus fortis ( Mf ) is a naturally resistant vertebrate host of Schistosoma japonicum . In the present study, we found that Mf serum albumin ( Mf -albumin) and the conditioned medium of pcDNA3.1- Mf -albumi...

Infection of cynomolgus monkeys with microfilariae (Mf) of Onchocerca lienalis was studied as a model for human ocular onchocerciasis. Normal monkeys and immunized monkeys were given intracorneal/subconjunctival, intracameral, or intravitreal injections of Mf or bovine serum albumin (control). Selected animals were given diethylcarbamazine citrate (DEC) orally (15 mg/kg) daily after the ocular ...