Betta fish are freshwater ornamental that very popular and have quite high economic value, but the reproductive process still depends on spawning season, so an increase in potential is needed. The experiment was conducted order to determine role of each induction Oocite development (Oodev) hormone diet betta female final maturation morphology gonads. Completely randomized design (CRD) with one ...

Visna lentiviruses have a natural tropism for cells of the macrophage lineage of sheep and goats, but virus replication in these cells in vivo is restricted so that only small quantities of virus are produced. One restricting factor suggested in previous studies is that virus replication is dependent on the maturity of the cells: the more mature the cell, the less restrictive the replication of...

background: in vitro maturation (ivm) of oocytes is a promising technique to reduce the costs and avert the side-effects of gonadotropin stimulation for in vitro fertilization (ivf). the pregnancy rates from oocytes matured in vitro are much lower than those of in vivo stimulation cycles, indicating that optimization of ivm remains a challenge. objective: in this study, we investigated the effe...

present study was conducted to consider the effects of different concentrations of 2,4-d and ba on somatic embryogenesis induction, development and maturation of three strawberry cultivars (kurdistan, parose and camarosa). for this purpose, leaf blade, nodal, petiole, stamen and flower bud calli were cultured on murashige and skoog (ms) medium supplemented with 2, 4 dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (...

Changes in anthocyanin and endogenous abscisic acid (ABA) contents the berry skins of Vitis labruscana × V. vinifera cultivars, ‘Aki Queen’, ‘Ruby Roman’ were investigated during fruit development period. Color Queen’ berries mainly occurred within 20 days post véraison, while that was prolonged for about 40 days. In both ABA level skin started to increase a few before véraison; however, accumu...

Rodent-based studies have shown that the membrane properties of oligodendrocytes play prominent roles in their physiology and shift markedly during their maturation from the oligodendrocyte precursor cell (OPC) stage. However, the conservation of these properties and maturation processes in human oligodendrocytes remains unknown, despite their dysfunction being implicated in human neurodegenera...

BACKGROUND Considerable variations in the development stage among patients of the same chronological age have led to introduce the concept of the developmental age based on the maturation of different organs such as cervical vertebrae or teeth. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to investigate the correlation between the stages of tooth calcification and the cervical vertebral maturatio...

Amelogenin, enamelin, sheathlin (ameloblastin/ amelin), enamelysin (MMP-20), and KLK4 (EMSP-1) are the major structural proteins and proteinases in developing tooth enamel. Recently, odontoblasts were reported to express amelogenin, the most abundant enamel protein. In this study, we hypothesized that odontoblasts express all enamel proteins and proteases, and we measured their relative mRNA le...

Rab20, a member of the Rab GTPase family, is known to be involved in membrane trafficking, however its implication in FcγR-mediated phagocytosis is unclear. We examined the spatiotemporal localization of Rab20 during phagocytosis of IgG-opsonized erythrocytes (IgG-Es) in RAW264 macrophages. By the live-cell imaging of fluorescent protein-fused Rab20, it was shown that Rab20 was transiently asso...

Using the distal molar of a minipig as a model, we studied changes in the microstructural characteristics of apatite crystallites during enamel maturation (16-23 months of postnatal age), and their effects upon the mechanical properties of the enamel coat. The slow rate of tooth development in a pig model enabled us to reveal essential heterochronies in particular components of the maturation p...