BACKGROUND Our earlier studies have demonstrated upregulation of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) in NRK52E rat renal epithelial cells by exposure to oxalate (Ox) ions and crystals of calcium oxalate monohydrate (COM) or the brushite (Br) form of calcium phosphate. The upregulation was mediated by reactive oxygen species (ROS). This study was performed to investigate whether NADPH oxi...

Aim: Fasting plasma glucose (FPG) is the concentration of after an overnight (≤ 8 hours) fast. It diagnostic diabetes mellitus and prediabetes. used in screening other health conditions monitoring treatment diabetes. useful to determine factors that influence FPC for more accurate interpretation test. Procedure: One hundred fifty (150) apparently healthy subjects aged 1 – 80 years were recruite...

Oxalate and malonate have been found to bind to the flavoenzyme, lactate oxidase, in a two-step equilibrium process. The dissociation constant for the first step is of the order of lo-” M, and is independent of pH. The second step equilibrium is on the other hand directly proportional to [H+I due to the second forward step, which is a second order reaction involving proton uptake. The reverse o...

responses of plants to salinity stress and development of salt tolerance are extremely complex and various mechanisms appear to be involved. we employed a proteomic approach to study the mechanism of plant responses to salinity in a sensitive cultivar of barley (527 line). three-week-old seedlings were treated with 300 mm nacl for 3 weeks. total proteins of fourth leaf were extracted and separa...

in this study the effect of different concentrations of silicon( 0, 2 , 4 and 6 mm, on expression of some genes involved in resistance and activity of several antioxidan enzymes was investigated: the plants was treated in flowering stage via soil solution. the treated plants were inoculated with 106 spore suspended in 1 ml by injection into the lower part of the spikelets and then were harveste...