We aimed to develop a cost-effective and robust method to predict drug resistance in individualpatients. Representative tissue fragments were obtained from tumors removed from femalepatients, aged 24-74 years old. The tumor tissue was taken by a histopathology’s or a surgeonunder sterile conditions. Cells obtained by enzymatic dissociation from tumor after surgery, werecultured as a monolayer f...

We aimed to develop a cost-effective and robust method to predict drug resistance in individualpatients. Representative tissue fragments were obtained from tumors removed from femalepatients, aged 24-74 years old. The tumor tissue was taken by a histopathology’s or a surgeonunder sterile conditions. Cells obtained by enzymatic dissociation from tumor after surgery, werecultured as a monolayer f...

Objective: Arsenic, an environmental pollutant, decreases neuronal migration as well as cellular maturation and inhibits the proliferation of neural progenitor cells. Curcumin has been described as an antioxidant and neuroprotective agent with strong therapeutic potential in some neurological disorders. Human adipose-derived stem cells (hADSCs), a source of multipotent stem cells, can self-rene...

Sf9, a cell line derived from Spodoptera frugiperda, is an ideal model organism for studying insect apoptosis. The first notable study that attempted to identify the apoptotic pathway in Sf9 was performed in 1997 and included the discovery of Sf-caspase-1, an effector caspase of Sf9. However, it was not until 2013 that the first initiator caspase in Sf9, SfDronc, was discovered, and the apoptot...

The existing evidence suggests that the human reproductive system may be potentially vulnerable to COVID-19 infection. However, little is known about virus–host interaction of in sperm cells. We are first address connection between changes multiple seminal biomarkers and function male patients recovering from COVID-19. In a prospective longitudinal cohort study, ACE2 activity, markers inflammat...

Loss of neurons after traumatic brain injury (TBI) might involve dysregulated apoptosis. Activation of caspase-3 is one hallmark of apoptosis. Therefore, caspase-3 activity (cleavage of DEVD-afc) was measured in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples (n=113) from 27 patients with TBI at day 1 to 14 after trauma. Caspase-3 activity was detected in 31 (27.4%) CSF samples with highest values (> 5.5 mic...

The objective of this study was to investigate the protease family caspases in skeletal muscle and their potential contribution to postmortem proteolysis and meat tenderization. Ten Large White gilts were slaughtered, and samples of LM were taken at 0, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, and 192 h after slaughter and immediately snap frozen in liquid nitrogen. Samples were subsequently analyzed for caspase 3/7 an...