Henry Kohler1* and Leila Harhaus2 1Department of Rehabilitation, BG Trauma Center, Ludwigshafen, Germany 2Department of Plastic Surgery of Heidelberg University, BG Trauma Center, Ludwigshafen, Germany *Corresponding author: Henry Kohler, Rehabilitation Centre and Department of BG Rehabilitation and Therapy Management, BG Clinic Ludwigshafen, Ludwig Guttmann Street 13, Ludwigshafen, 67071, Germ...

OBJECTIVES To compare the effectiveness of bioactive glass (BG), natural hydroxyapatite (HA), and demineralized freeze-dried bone (DFDB) in bone defects. METHODS All animal experiments were conducted in Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey, under the Selcuk University Guidelines for Animal Experimentation, in 2005. Eighteen New Zealand rabbits were used for the exp...

O6-benzylguanine (BG) is a potent inactivator of the DNA repair protein O6-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase (AGT) that enhances sensitivity to nitrosoureas in tumor cell lines and tumor-bearing animals. The major objectives of this study were to define the optimal modulatory dose and associated toxicities of benzylguanine administered alone and in combination with carmustine; to define the max...

Homozygous (bg/bg) and heterozygous (bg/+) beige mice were infected with Toxoplasma gondii, and splenic and peritoneal natural killer (NK) cell activities were assayed against YAC-1 lymphoma (NK-YAC) and thymocyte (NK-THY) targets. Although uninfected bg/bg mice were devoid of NK-YAC activity when compared with bg/+ mice, NK-THY activity was at a completely normal level. Both effector cells sho...

O6-Benzylguanine (BG) enhances cisplatin [cis-diammine dichloroplatinum (II)]-induced cytotoxicity and apoptosis in head and neck cancer cell lines by an unknown mechanism. We investigated the effect of cisplatin with and without BG on two targets of damage: DNA and the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). We chose three cancer cell lines to ascertain the mechanism of BG-enhanced cytotoxicity: SQ20b hea...

In this study, a composite of bioactive glass (BG) and cordierite (BG-cord) was proposed to increase the strength bioactivity BG. Both BG were separately synthesized with method melting, then, they used fabricate BG-cord variation sintering temperature (600 1000 °C). The highest diametral tensile (DTS=30.54 MPa) shown by at 925 ºC. Bioactivity tests conducted soaking in Hank’s balanced salt sol...

This Article contains a typographical error in Equation (2). () () = − −). ν ν ν ν + + + G 1 1 M N e h 2 1 1 bg tg bg tg 2 should read: 1 bg tg bg tg 2 In addition, the Acknowledgements section is incomplete.

Commercial brilliant green (BG)-sulfa agar was found to be nonselective toward a test series of Enterobacteriaceae. Various formulations of BG were prepared by using Trypticase soy agar (BBL) as a base. Results were more reproducible when BG dye was added after sterilization than before. Sulfonamides improved selectivity as compared with brilliant green alone. Sulfanilamide (SN) was slightly mo...

Beta-glucan (BG) is one of the most abundant forms of polysaccharides with the heterogeneous groups of glucose polymers connected by a 1→3 linear β-glycosidic chain hub. BG is unique depending on length and structure of the branches. Even though BG has highly variable branches, 1→4 or 1→6 glycosidic chains are the major branching group (Chan et al., 2009). BG is present everywhere from bacteria...