Objective(s): Predegeneration is a standard technique to obtain mitotically activated and enriched cultures of Schwann cells (SCs). This study, for the first time, evaluated the impact of various duration of predegeneration on cell yield and enrichment of SCs from dog peripheral nerve. Materials and Methods: Dog sural nerves were subjected to 5, 10, 15 day-long in vitro predegeneration. The tot...

Recent observational studies of intermediate-age star clusters (SCs) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) have reported that a significant number of these objects show double main-sequence turn-offs (DMSTOs) in their color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs). One plausible explanation for the origin of these DMSTOs is that the SCs are composed of two different stellar populations with age differences of ∼...

Based on the sources’ smoothed rank profile (SRP) and modified minimum description length (MMDL) principle, a method for estimation of the source coherency structure (SCS) and the number of wideband sources is proposed in this paper. Instead of focusing, we first use a spatial smoothing technique to pre-process the array covariance matrix of each frequency for de-correlating the sources and the...

Schwann cells (SCs) are known to play an important role for the regeneration of mammalian peripheral nerves. Their effect is likely due to the production of neuronotrophic and/or supportive factors. Here we study the effect of intraocular transplant of SCs on the survival of rat retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) after the intracranial section of the optic nerve. SCs were injected intraocularly in a...

In this study test-day records of milk (kg), fat (g), and protein (g) yields, somatic cell score (SCS, cells/ML) collected by Animal Breeding Center of Iran during 2007 and 2009 were used to estimate genetic parameters using random regression model. Models with different order of Legendre polynomials were compared using Bayesian information criterion (BIC).For milk, fat yield and SCS genetic an...

In clinical practice, deep brain stimulation (DBS) is effective for treatment of motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease (PD). However, the mechanisms have not been understood completely. There are some reports that electrical stimulation exerts neuroprotective effects on the central nervous system diseases including cerebral ischemia, head trauma, epilepsy and PD, although there are a few report...

This study attempts to validate an infiltration model, the Soil Conservation Service–Curve Number (SCS–CN) method, using nonofficial intermittent occurrence data of Eongtto Falls on Jeju Island, Korea. Simply due limited official continuous runoff concerning validation a newly set SCS-CN method for Island was practically impossible. Instead, this tries use purpose. focuses Falls, which is one m...

genetic parameters were estimated for somatic cell score (scs) in dairy cattle of iran using test day records. the records of first lactation were extracted from the database of national animal breeding center for cows calved between 2001 and 2010. data included 222923 test-day records, obtained from 29668 animals distributed in 100 different herds. estimates were carried out through gibbs samp...

Detailed mechanisms behind regeneration after nerve injury, in particular signal transduction and the fate of Schwann cells (SCs), are poorly understood. Here, we investigated axotomy-induced activation of extracellular-signal-regulated kinase-1/2 (ERK1/2; important for proliferation) and m-calpain in vitro, and the relation to Ca2+ deletion and Schwann cell proliferation and death after rat sc...

The understanding of the mode of action of spinal cord stimulation (SCS) as treatment of neuropathic pain is still fragmentary. SCS evolved from the gate-control theory postulating a spinal modulation of noxious inflow, but there is little evidence that SCS influences nociceptive pain; pain relief in peripheral vascular disease and angina pectoris is presumably secondary to other SCS effects. I...