Background: While assisted reproductive techniques (ARTs) are considered to be safe, many concerns exist about the safety of these techniques. Two important and indispensable parts of these techniques are in vitro culture and vitrification. While much progress has been made in developing culture conditions, it remains suboptimal. In order to investigate the effect of culture medium on in vitro ...

Summary: Uwe Drescher commemorates the life and work of Friedrich Bonhoeffer, whose pioneering – including development innovative in vitro assays led to important discoveries field axon guidance neural development.

it has been reported that cxcl12 binding to cxcr4 induces several intracellular signaling pathways, and enhances survival, proliferation, and migration of malignant cells. herein we examined the effects of anti-estrogen tamoxifen and anti-allergic tranilast drugs as a single or in combination on invasion by two in vitro invasion assays, wound-healing and matrigel invasion on mcf-7 and mda-mb-23...

objective(s):p in vitro chemosensitivity and resistance assays (csras) are a promising tool for personalized treatment of glioblastoma multiform (gbm). these assays require a minimum of 1 to 2 g of tumor specimen for testing, but this amount is not always accessible. we aimed to assess the feasibility and validity of utilizing stereotactic biopsies of gbm in csras. materials and methods: single...

background and objectives: dental caries is still remained as a major health problem. this problem has created a new interest to search for new antimicrobial agents from various sources including medicinal plants. since limited data is available so far regarding the antibacterial effect of coriandrum sativum seed and dentol drop against streptococcus mutans, this study aims to assess this activ...