introduction: birth weight is one of the important sanitary indices in evaluating the prenatal care all over the world. the purpose of this research was to determine the relationship between the bio-environmental characteristics of mothers with infant’s birth weight. materials and methods: in corrolation study, first, all newborn babies in hospitals and maternity centers khuzestan between farwa...

Growing nanomaterials based consumer applications have raised concerns about their potential release into the aquatic ecosystems and the consequent toxicological impacts. So environmental monitoring of the nanomaterials in aqueous systems becomes imperative. The current study reveals the potential of Ceriodaphnia dubia (C. dubia) as a bio-indicator for aluminum oxide nanoparticles in a fresh wa...

Total mercury (Hg) concentration and several other geochemical parameters were determined for five sediment profiles from the Antarctic Ross Sea region. Our data exhibit significant positive correlations between Hg concentration and total organic carbon (TOC) content in all profiles, suggesting the predominant role of organic matter (OM) as a Hg carrier. The OM in the sediments originates prima...

Copyright 2007 by Wolfgang Britz. All rights reserved. Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies. Abstract Major environmental indicators require data at a spatial resolution below administrative units as found in economic models. The CAPRI-Dynaspat project added spatial results for ...

The delta-sarcoglycan-deficient hamster is an excellent model to study muscular dystrophy. Gait disturbances, important clinically, have not been described in this animal model. We applied ventral plane videography (DigiGait) to analyze gait in BIO TO-2 dystrophic and BIO F1B control hamsters walking on a transparent treadmill belt. Stride length was ∼13% shorter (P < .05) in TO-2 hamsters at 9...

Viral zoonoses have emerged as the key drivers of recent pandemics. Human infection by zoonotic viruses are either spillover events – isolated infections that fail to cause a widespread contagion – or species jumps, where successful adaptation to the new host leads to a pandemic. Despite expensive bio-surveillance efforts, historically emergence response has been reactive, and post-hoc. Here we...

We studied the distribution of biogenic silica (BSi) and other potentially bio-available Si pools (NaCl-, NaBDand NaOH-extractable Si) in short (0–25 cm) sediment cores from estuarine, coastal and open-sea areas in the Gulf of Finland (northeastern Baltic Sea). The BSi pool (150–1200 μmol g–1 DM, dry matter) was the largest potentially bio-available Si pool. In a part of the studied area, the c...

in order to study the effects of integrated application of bio-fertilizer and chemical fertilizers on yield and yield components of corn, an experiment was conducted in 2008 in dezful city, (khoozestan province) in a factorial arrangement based on complete randomized block design with four replications. treatments were integrated application of biological and chemical fertilizers in four levels...

Glioblastoma is the most malignant form of brain cancer. Due to its aggressive nature, extensive research has been performed, but little progress has been made in identifying effective treatment options. Glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3) is a ubiquitous, multifaceted protein kinase. Previous studies have shown that small molecule inhibitors of GSK-3 block the migration of glioblastoma cells an...

Excess nutrients shift the ecological balance of coastal ecosystems, and this eutrophication is an increasing problem across the globe. Nutrient levels may be routinely measured, but monitoring rarely attempts to determine the source of these nutrients, even though bio-indicators are available. Nitrogen stable isotope analysis in biota is one such bio-indicator, but across the British Isles, th...