Cancer immunosurveillance protects the host from outgrowth of tumor cells. Natural killer (NK) cell function positively associates with reduction of cancer risk and with better survival of gastrointestinal stromal tumor patients. We expanded murine NK cells and characterized their anti-tumor activity in vitro and in vivo. Adoptive transfer of the expanded NK cells into tumor-bearing mice reduce...

Nutrient loading can improve the growth and nutrient content of nursery-grown Betula alnoides Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don, but it is unknown whether enhances uptake after transplanting. Plants were grown with three treatments (N100, N200, N400; 100, 200, 400 mg N per plant as 15N-urea) in nursery containers then transplanted into plastic pots, or without controlled-release fertilizer (F0 F10, 0 10 g p...

An experiment was carried out to define the optimal rate of palm-press fibres in growing rabbits' diet. In total, 64 weaned rabbits (35 days old) of Beninese breed were divided in 16 groups of 4 rabbits (2 males and 2 females) each. During six weeks, rabbits were fed with 4 complete diets containing 0% (F0, control), 5% (F5), 10% (F10), and 15% (F15) of fibres from a palm oil industry. Results ...

Equine embryos are traditionally transported in Ham’s F10, a culture medium that requires special handling (bubbling with a specific gas mixture) before it can be used for the conservation of equine embryos. Two media have been tested for the cooled storage of equine embryos (Emcare Holding Solution and Vigro Holding Plus) and appear to be suitable alternatives to Ham’s F10. These media offer t...

The B16 melanoma-derived low lung-colonizing variant B16-F1 and the high lung-colonizing variant B16-F10 retained their differential lung-colonizing abilities throughout at least 35 serial s.c. transplant generations. The majority of the cells originating from solid B16-F1 tumors had a higher density than did cells originating from solid B16-F10 tumors. Cell suspensions of unselected solid B16 ...

Abstract Gastric ulcer is a common health issue. Cotinus coggygria heartwood extracts rich in the flavonoids fustin and sulfuretin have shown protective effects rat model of indomethacin-induced gastric ulceration. Fustin itself has been ethanol-induced ulcer. In present study we aimed to reveal effect flavonoid isolated from was purified. The experiment performed on 30 male Wistar rats allocat...

Elderberries are known for their high anthocyanins content, which have been shown to possess anti-proliferative and anti-cancer effects. Anthocyanins enriched extract (AEE) was obtained from elderberries and was characterized by LC/DAD/ESI-MS analysis. Five cyanidin-based anthocyanins were identified, among which Cy-3-O-samb was the major compound (51%). The total anthocyanins content of AEE wa...

The antitumor effects of the multifunctional iron-binding glycoprotein, lactoferrin (Lf), were investigated. Lf inhibited growth in mice of transplantable solid tumors induced by v-ras transformed fibroblasts and a methylcholanthrene-induced fibrosarcoma. Lf also substantially reduced lung colonization (experimental metastasis) by B16-F10 melanoma cells in syngeneic mice. Iron-saturated and apo...

Benzothiazolyl thiocarbamides has been achieved using a catalytic amount of 4-dimethylaminopyridine (DMAP) followed by its chemoselective oxidative cyclization with 1,3-di-n-butylimidazolium tribromide[bbim][Br(3)] to afford the N-bis-benzothiazole derivatives. All the synthesized compounds were evaluated for cytotoxic activity against two human monocytic cell lines (U 937, THP-1) and a mouse m...

B16 melanoma cell variants were used to determine if the metastatic properties of these cells could be correlated to distinct plasma membrane, microsome, and mitochondrial membrane lipid compositions and membrane-bound enzyme activities in high- and low-metastatic cell variants, respectively. The high-metastatic B16-F10 melanoma cell membranes had lower cholesterol/phospholipid ratios, lower ar...