BACKGROUND Neurotrophic factors have been investigated in the pathophysiology of alcohol and drug dependence and have been related to early life stress driving developmental programming of neuroendocrine systems. METHODS We conducted a follow-up study that aimed to assess the plasma levels of glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF), brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), nerve g...

Abstract The Asian pitviper genus Ovophis is a group of venomous snakes widely distributed in mid to high elevation mountains Asia, and presently five species are recognised. However, its systematics, diversity distribution boundaries remain poorly understood. We reconstructed the phylogenetic relationships explored Chinese based on two mitochondrial fragments (Cyt b ND4) four nuclear genes ( B...

Streptococcus agalactiae is one of the microbial pathogens causing dark-body disease on snakeskin gourami fish (Trichogaster pectoralis) that affects growth and quality fish. This research aimed to isolate select bacteria inhibiting S. which are able use for controling pathogenic instead antibiotics. Fourteen strains were isolated screened from healthy fishes, sediment water samples at ponds in...

The marginal zone (MZ) of embryonic neocortex is crucial to its normal development. We report that neurotrophin-4 (but not NT3 or NGF), applied to embryonic rodent cortex in vitro or in vivo, produces heterotopic accumulations of neurons in the MZ. Although heterotopia production is TrkB mediated, BDNF is >10-fold less effective than NT4. Heterotopic neurons have the same birth date and phenoty...

Our aim is to determine--in 30 healthy full-term infants and their mothers--circulating levels of neurotrophin-3 (NT-3) (important for antenatal and postnatal brain development and implicated in the immune response) and FLT3 tyrosine kinase receptor (FLT3) (controlling hematopoiesis and found in the nervous tissue), in the fetal and neonatal life. NT-3 levels, in contrast to FLT3 ones, increase...

Nghiên cứu được thực hiện nhằm đánh giá ảnh hưởng lợi khuẩn Bacillus CM3.1 và Lactobacillus TV3.2 lên chất lượng nước tăng trưởng của cá tra Pangasianodon hypophthamus. Hệ thống thí nghiệm gồm 12 bể composite chứa 400 L ngọt, (khối ban đầu 0,46±0,01 g) bố trí mật độ 150 con/bể theo dõi trong 30 ngày. với 4 thức, mỗi thức lặp lại 3 lần: đối chứng (NT1), không có bổ sung khuẩn; ăn (NT2); (NT3) kế...