background: cytogenetic tests are usually used for diagnosing predisposed individuals to cancer by determining their lymphocyte radiosensitivity. objective: to determine the potential role of radiosensitivity in predisposition of prostate cancer by comparing lymphocyte radiosensitivity of prostate cancer patients with healthy donors. materials and methods: the blood samples of 10 prostate cance...

Eukaryote chromosomes usually condense during mitosis. Chromosome condensation is strictly regulated by cellular elaborated machinery but the details of the mechanism still remains to be elucidated. Occasionally, chromosomes condense at outside of mitosis under several circumstances (Gotoh et al., 1995; Gotoh and Durante, 2006). This phenomenon is known as premature chromosome condensation (PCC...

A striking contrast in the thermal conductivities of polyethylene glycol (PEG)/diatomite form-stable phase change composite (fs-PCC) with single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNs) as nano-additive has been reported in our present study. Compared to the pure PEG, the thermal conductivity of the prepared fs-PCC has increased from 0.24 W/mK to 0.87 W/Mk with a small SWCNs loading of 2 wt%. SWCNs are ...

The premature chromosome condensation (PCC) assay has been proposed as a useful and rapid end point for biological dosimetry following accidental high-dose radiation overexposures. A major benefit of the PCC assay is that it does not require cells to divide for evaluation of cytogenetic damage. The PCC assay was performed on isolated human peripheral lymphocytes exposed in vitro to doses from 1...

Compared with conventional piles such as the circle pile, the cast-in-place large-diameter pile (PCC pile) has many advantages: the lateral area of PCC pile is larger and the bearing capacity of PCC pile is higher. It is more cost-effective than other piles such as square pile under the same condition. The deformation of the PCC pile is very important for its application. In order to obtain the...

The baseline and longitudinal changes of the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) connectivity were assessed in order to clarify the neural mechanism of mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Twenty-eight right-handed subjects (14 MCI patients and 14 healthy elders) participated in this study. Clinical and neuropsychological examinations were performed on all the subjects. PCC functional connectivity was...

Colocalization analysis is the most common technique used for quantitative analysis of fluorescence microscopy images. Several metrics have been developed for measuring the colocalization of two probes, including Pearson's correlation coefficient (PCC) and Manders' correlation coefficient (MCC). However, once measured, the meaning of these measurements can be unclear; interpreting PCC or MCC va...