The main nonhormonal mechanism for controlling inorganic phosphate (P(i)) homeostasis is renal adaptation of the proximal tubular P(i) transport rate to changes in dietary phosphate content. Opossum kidney (OK) cell line is an in vitro renal model that maintains the ability of renal adaptation to the extracellular P(i) concentration. We have studied how two competitive inhibitors of P(i) transp...

background:   objective: we evaluated the icsi outcome in our program for (htlv-1) serodiscordant couples (sdcs) with the female infected in comparison with control group.   materials and methods: this study was performed between 2007 and 2011 in novin infertility treatment center (mashhad, iran). we examined 32 icsi cycles of htlv-1 infected women in comparison with an age matched control grou...

memory formation is the most important aspect of a vaccine which can guarantee long-lasting immunity and protection. the main aim of the present study was to evaluate the memory immune responses after immunization with a mini vaccine. mice were immunized with human immunodeficiency virus-1 p24-nef fusion peptide and then cellular and humoral immune responses were evaluated. in order to determin...

background: interleukin (il)-8 plays important roles in the recruitment and activation of immune cells during visceral leishmaniasis (vl). genetic variations in il-8 modulate the expression of il-8 protein and may be associated with vl. this study aimed to evaluate polymorphisms at the il-8 −251 position in vl patients. methods: this cross-sectional study was performed on three groups: leishman...

introduction: patients with schizophrenia characteristically exhibit cognitive deficits. the level of cognitive impairment is found to predict the functional outcome of the illness more strongly than the severity of positive or negative symptoms. the purpose of this study was to assess the efficacy of ondansetron, a 5-ht3 receptor antagonist as an adjuvant agent in the treatment of chronic schi...

the postharvest vase life of cut roses was studied to determine the effects of various physiological factors that influence the vase life of cut flower. cut roses were obtained from commercial area of siliguri. to assess the effect of preservatives on the postharvest life of rose, cut flowers were treated with following preservative solutions: fixed amount of citric acid (ca) (300 mg/ml) and 8-...

3-(2-furanyl)-2-propenoic acid has been used to prepare a new series of organotin complexes of general formula r3snl (r=me, et, n-bu, ph and cy) and r2snl2 (r=me and n-bu). these complexes have been characterized by elemental analyses, ir, 1h-nmr, mass and mössbaure spectroscopy.

let z2 = {0, 1} and g = (v ,e) be a graph. a labeling f : v → z2 induces an edge labeling f* : e →z2 defined by f*(uv) = f(u).f (v). for i ε z2 let vf (i) = v(i) = card{v ε v : f(v) = i} and ef (i) = e(i) = {e ε e : f*(e) = i}. a labeling f is said to be vertex-friendly if | v(0) − v(1) |≤ 1. the vertex balance index set is defined by {| ef (0) − ef (1) | : f is vertex-friendly}. in this paper ...

it is widely thought that bcl-2 family proteins regulate commitment to apoptosis primarily through their capacity to control the permeability of the mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization (momp) triggers the release of multiple apoptogenic factors into the cytosol and, thereby apoptosis. various bcl-2 family members affect this key event of the apoptotic cascade in different ways, determ...