Experiments have been designed to investigate hormonal effects on the human prostatic carcinoma cell line LNCaP in the presence of complete foetal calf serum. At physiological concentrations (3.3 x 10M), several derivatives of 17a-methyl-testosterone led to a significant reduction of cell proliferation, inhibition of colony formation in soft agar, change of morphology, induction of a prostate s...

Producing nutritious and safe foods sufficiently and sustainably is the ultimate goal of modern agriculture. Past efforts have focused on increasing crop yields, but enhancing the concentrations of mineral micronutrients has become an urgent task because about half of the world population suffers from the malnutrition of iron, zinc, and selenium. Biofortification of these trace elements can be ...

logical progress. Global development, however, raises new challenges, especially in the field of environmental protection and conservation. Technological ingenuity has enhanced the potential for improving industrial development and rapid progress is being made not only in the field of electronics but also in biological, medical and pharmaceutical applications. In recent decades, increasingly pr...

Environment may be considered as our surroundings which includes everything around us. Environment pollution is a big threat to the healthy existence of humankind. Several methods are involve in amelioration however, some of them are not possible in some situations or not economically and environmentally practical in other situation , Thus phytoremediation is a promising green technology to con...

This study aimed to explore the effects of Trichoderma reesei FS10-C on the phytoremediation of Cd-contaminated soil by the hyperaccumulator Sedum plumbizincicola and on soil fertility. The Cd tolerance of T. reesei FS10-C was characterized and then a pot experiment was conducted to investigate the growth and Cd uptake of S. plumbizincicola with the addition of inoculation agents in the presenc...

A comparison was made between the dissipation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in soil freshly spiked with pure PAHs, soil spiked with a coal tar mixture and a contaminated soil from a former coking works where the PAHs had been present for more than a century. The potential of five selected plant species for phytoremediation was investigated. The levels of all 7 PAHs in chemically am...