A genetic linkage map of the European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) was constructed from 174 microsatellite markers, including 145 new markers reported in this study. The mapping panel was derived from farmed sea bass from the North Adriatic Sea and consisted of a single family including both parents and 50 full-sib progeny (biparental diploids). A total of 162 microsatellites were mapped in ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the frequency of luteinizing hormone (LH) variant in males and females in West region of the Czech Republic. This species of mutated LH concerns borderline alterations in pituitary-gonadal function, including higher risk for the development of more aggressive forms of prostate carcinoma in males. METHODS The examined normal population consisted of randomly selected 82 ma...

Prostate cancer, due to wide availability of PSA tests, is very often diagnosed in early stage, nowadays. This makes management of this disease even harder in every day oncology care. There is a wide range of treatment options including surgery, radiotherapy and active surveillance, but essential question is which treatment patient and oncologist should decide for. Due to recent publication of ...

Traditionally, potatoes are a central component of warm meals in many European countries (Wandel et al. 2001; FAO, 2004). In an analysis from the EPIC study (n 13 031 men and 22 924 women) including data from ten European countries (Greece, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, The Netherlands, UK, Denmark, Sweden and Norway), potatoes contributed on average 7 % to the total carbohydrates consumed, bu...

in order to evaluate genetic relationship, diversity and possible genetically andphysical mixing of kurdistan cultivar with russian, american and european cultivars acollection of 33 samples including: 20 accessions of cv. kurdistan from different fieldsof kurdistan province, 7 russian and 6 american and european cultivars were analyzedusing 10 molecular markers. result indicated that in each m...