Background: It has been proposed that oxidative stress may contribute to the development of testicular abnormalities in diabetes. Morus alba leaf extract (MAE) has hypoglycemic and antioxidant properties. We, therefore, explored the impact of the administration of MAE on steroidogenesis in diabetic rats. Methods: To address this hypothesis, we measured the serum level of glucose, insulin, and f...

The expression of the steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR) in the human corpus luteum (CL) was examined throughout the luteal phase. The primary 1.6-kb StAR transcript was in greater abundance in early (3.1-fold) and mid (2.2-fold) luteal phase CL compared with late luteal phase CL. The larger StAR transcript (4.4 kb) was found in early and midluteal phase CL, but was not detected in l...

‎in this paper we try to extend geometric concepts in the context of operator valued tensors‎. ‎to this end‎, ‎we aim to replace the field of scalars $ mathbb{r} $ by self-adjoint elements of a commutative $ c^star $-algebra‎, ‎and reach an appropriate generalization of geometrical concepts on manifolds‎. ‎first‎, ‎we put forward the concept of operator-valued tensors and extend semi-riemannian...

the hosoya index and the merrifield-simmons index are two types of graph invariants used in mathematical chemistry. in this paper, we give some formulas for computed these indices for some classes of corona product and link of two graphs. furthermore, we obtain exact formulas of hosoya and merrifield-simmons indices for the set of bicyclic graphs, caterpillars and dual star.

The steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR) is required for the movement of cholesterol from the outer to the inner mitochondrial membrane, the site of cholesterol side chain cleavage. Here we describe a novel form of regulation of StAR gene expression in steroidogenic cells. Treatment of Y-1 BS1 adrenocortical cells with either low density lipoprotein (LDL) or high density lipoprotein (H...

performance of the fiber optic networks with different physical topologies such as point-to-point, bus, ring and star, with respect to requirements as bit rates, topology structure, bit. error rate (ber) and optical component characteristics including optical amplifiers, filters, sources and detectors, are analyzed and simulated. for this purpose, maximum number of supportable nodes and throug...

introduction: microleakage is a major factor affecting the longevity of adhesive restorations. colored compomer is a new restorative material that was specifically designed for the restoration of primary molars in different colors, but their microleakage is unknown. this study was carried out to compare the microleakage of a colored compomer (twinky star) and a conventional compomer (f2000) wit...