Background: Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) have the potential to optimize the rhizospheric soil characteristics considerably thereby affecting plant growth. Objectives: The aim is to investigate the effects of fungi inoculation (Glomus intraradices) on morphological, physiological and phytochemical traits of Rosemary (Rosemarinus officinalis L.) under salt stress. Methods: A factorial...

In the present study we compared the inoculation of swine gastric mucus into the stomach of mice, the ureas test and carbolfuchsin-stained smears for the diagnosis of the infection with "Gastrospirillum suis" ("Helicobacter heilmannii" type 1), an uncultivated tightly spiralled gastric bacterium. Fragments obtained from the antral and oxyntic mucosa of the stomach of 50 slaughtered pigs were us...

We studied the biological features of cacheixa using renal cell carcinoma heterotransplanted to nude mice (JRC 11) where cachexia was caused after the inoculation of tumour. The results of our study were as follows; 1) The JRC 11 tumour expressed mRNA of interleukin-6 by the analysis using the polymerase chain reaction method (PCR). 2) The human IL-6 was detected in the sera of nude mice accord...

BACKGROUND Soybean red crown rot is a major soil-borne disease all over the world, which severely affects soybean production. Efficient and sustainable methods are strongly desired to control the soil-borne diseases. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We firstly investigated the disease incidence and index of soybean red crown rot under different phosphorus (P) additions in field and found that the natural i...

the low bioavailability of zinc (zn) is in calcareous and saline soil, therefore the study of chemical forms and bioavailability of zn in these soils is necessary to estimate the potential availability. the objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria and mycorrhizae fungi inoculation on the chemical forms of zn in a calcareous soil at different sal...

INTRODUCTION Hepatitis B (HB) may progress to cirrhosis and liver carcinoma. Its prevalence is estimated at 3.2 % in hemodialysis (HD) patients. HB vaccine when applied intramuscularly (IM) in end-stage renal disease patients often does not induce appropriate antibody titers. However, there has been suggestion for intradermal (ID) to be a more effective inoculation method. OBJECTIVE To compar...

Using the parameter of the number of tumor cells necessary to produce s.c. tumors in allogeneic animals at varying intervals after antigenic stimulation, immunity was found to be in force as early as 2 days after primary antigenic stimulation. It reached a peak at 8-10 days and had largely subsided by the end of a month. This method was also applied to the quantitative study of the onset, degre...