background in the living donor liver transplant setting, the preoperative assessment of potential donors is important to ensure the donor safety. objectives the aim of this study was to identify causes and costs of living liver-donors rejection in the donation process. materials and methods from june 2010 to june 2012, all potential living liver donors for 66 liver transplant candidates were sc...

stem cell research has obtained much prominence in recent years for its therapeutic potential in dealing with serious diseases, many of which are essentially incurable by routine therapies. mesenchymal stem cells with pluripotency and immunomodulatory properties are suitable candidates for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. today, nanofibrous scaffolds are widely used in tissue engin...

human adipose tissue represents an abundant, practical and appealing source of donor tissue for autologous cell replacement. recent findings have shown that stem cells within the stromalvascular fraction of adipose tissue display a multilineage developmental potential. adipose tissue-derived stem cells can be differentiated towards adipogenic, osteogenic, chondrogenic,myogenic and neurogenic li...

A pressure chamber and a root pressure probe technique have been used to measure hydraulic conductivities of rice roots (root Lp(r) per m(2) of root surface area). Young plants of two rice (Oryza sativa L.) varieties (an upland variety, cv. Azucena and a lowland variety, cv. IR64) were grown for 31-40 d in 12 h days with 500 micromol m(-2) s(-1) PAR and day/night temperatures of 27 degrees C an...

The underground plant parts of reed (Phragmites australis) growing in anoxic soil of the littoral zone of lakes are provided with oxygen via an aerenchyma. Some of this oxygen is released into the rhizosphere, which creates a potential microhabitat for aerobic fungi. Although fungal endophytes of reed have been shown to occur also in roots of flooded habitats, it is not known whether or how fun...