to evaluate the effect of shoot girdling, fruit thinning, urea, sucrose and zinc on inflorescence bud retention in pistachio, an experiment comprised of 12 treatments including girdling, fruit thinning, application of urea (0.5%), and sucrose (3 and 5%) and their combination of the first two with urea plus zinc sulfate (0.05 and 0.1% of pure zinc) as well as a combination of the two with urea, ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the High Resolution Computed Tomographic (HRCT) patterns in adults with Acid Fast Bacillus (AFB) positive new cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis (PTB). STUDY DESIGN A descriptive case series. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY The study was carried out at the Department of Pulmonology and Department of Radiology, Military Hospital, Rawalpindi, from June 2006 to August 2007. M...

Boreal tree species are excellent tools for studying tolerance to climate change. Bud phenology is a trait, which is highly sensitive to environmental fluctuations and thus useful for climate change investigations. However, experimental studies of bud phenology under simulated climate change outdoors are deficient. We conducted a multifactorial field experiment with single (T, UVA, UVB) and com...

OBJECTIVE To compare the effectiveness of budesonide/formoterol using fixed dosing (BUD/FORM) with inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) alone or alternative ICS and long-acting beta(2)-agonist (LABA) regimens for adults with moderate/severe asthma. METHODS BIOSIS, CENTRAL, EMBASE and MEDLINE were searched for abstracts and papers. All searching was completed in July 2006. No restriction was placed on...

Introduction: Oxidative stress has been implicated in the pathogenesis of various diseases affecting chondrogenesis or the function of articular cartilage. The purpose of the present study was to find the effect of soybean extract on reduction of detoriation effects of oxidativestress in embryonic chondrogenesis in vitro. Methods: In order to separate ectoderm from mesenchyme, the limb buds ...

An efficient, simple micro propagation method was developed for Zingiber officinale Rosc.) cv. Volvo using fresh sprouting bud in basal culture media. Explants were cultured on to Murashige and Skoog’s (MS) medium supplemented with different concentrations combinations of BA (Benzyl adenine) KIN (Kinetin) shoot IBA (Indol-3-Butyric acid) NAA (α- Naphthalene acetic root induction. MS 2.0 mg/L + ...

Asthma control is improved by combining inhaled corticosteroids with long-acting beta2-agonists. However, fluctuating asthma control still occurs. We hypothesized that in patients receiving low maintenance dose budesonide/formoterol (bud/form), replacing short-acting beta2-agonist (SABA) reliever with as-needed bud/form would provide rapid symptom relief and simultaneous adjustment in antiinfla...

Isolated microspore culture in vitro (IMC) is an advanced technique for producing doubled haploids. We developed a modified isolation method the Brassicaceae family, which exceeds results obtained by standard method. found that new allows increase percentage of microspores at embryogenic stage development culture. In spring rapeseed ‘Ratnik’ increases from 66.7% to 73%, and European radish ‘RBK...

Young seedlings of the conifer Norway spruce exhibit short day (SD)-induced cessation of apical growth and bud set. Although different, constant temperatures under SD are known to modulate timing of bud set and depth of dormancy with development of deeper dormancy under higher compared to lower temperature, systematic studies of effects of alternating day (DT) and night temperatures (NT) are li...

Branching morphogenesis of the ureteric bud in response to unknown signals from the metanephric mesenchyme gives rise to the urinary collecting system and, via inductive signals from the ureteric bud, to recruitment of nephrons from undifferentiated mesenchyme. An established cell culture model for this process employs cells of ureteric bud origin (UB) cultured in extracellular matrix and stimu...