background: chronic fatigue syndrome (cfs) is a complex condition involving severe fatigue and disabling musculoskeletal and cognitive symptoms. we reported that 6, 12 and 24 months following infectious mononucleosis (im), 13%, 7% and 4% of adolescents, respectively, met criteria for cfs. whether endocrinologic or immunologic dysfunction accompanies cfs is unclear. objectives: to determine if s...

statement of the problem: lichen planus is a mucocutaneous disease that is relatively common in middle aged individuals. some studies have shown that oral lichen planus has a potential to progress to squamous cell carcinoma.p21 is a cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor that regulates the cell cycle, thus it acts as an inhibitor in cell proliferation. purpose: this study was aimed to evaluate and c...

The microRNA, miR-24, inhibits B cell development and promotes myeloid development of hematopoietic progenitors. Differential regulation of cell survival in myeloid and lymphoid cells by miR-24 may explain how miR-24's affects hematopoietic progenitors. MiR-24 is reported to regulate apoptosis, either positively or negatively depending on cell context. However, no role for miR-24 in regulating ...

Background:  The aberrant and altered patterns of gene expression play an important role in the biology of cancer and tumorigenesis. DNA methylation and histone deacetylation are the most studied epigenetic mechanisms. Histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACIs) such as valproic acid (VPA) and trichostatin A (TSA) are a group of anticancer compounds for the treatment of solid and hematological canc...

Fractionation of an antitrypanosomal lipophilic leaf extract from Strychnos spinosa led to the isolation of eight triterpenoids and sterols in this plant part for the first time. Two of these were found to possess in vitro antitrypanosomal activity, namely, saringosterol (14) and 24-hydroperoxy-24-vinylcholesterol (15), with IC(50) values of 7.8 +/- 1.2 and 3.2 +/- 1.2 microM, respectively. The...

Based on the Delsarte-Yudin linear programming approach, we extend Levenshtein’s framework to obtain lower bounds for minimum $h$-energy of spherical codes prescribed dimension and cardinality, upper maximal cardinality separation. These are universal in sense that they hold a large class potentials $h$ Levenshtein. Moreover, attaining universally optimal Cohn-Kumar. Referring Levenshtein ene...

background: epigenetic reprogramming of differentiated cells can modify somatic cells into pluripotential state. pluripotency can be induced in somatic cells by several approches. one of the easy ways to induce pluripotency is the exposure of the somatic cells to the embryonic stem cell (esc) extract. objective: the objective of this study was to increase the efficiency of reprogramming of gran...

BACKGROUND 1alpha,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 [1,25-(OH)2D3] is the biological active form of vitamin D. Its antiproliferative capacities make it a potential drug to treat diseases such as cancer. The clinical use of 1,25-(OH)2D3 as an antiproliferative agent is hampered by its calcemic effects. Hence, structural analogs such as the seco-9,11-bisnor-17-methyl analog, WY1112, have been developed with...