The aim of the study was to investigate the association between oxidative stress and DNA damage with grafting time in patients submitted to autologous hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT). The study included 37 patients submitted to autologous HSCT diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma (MM) and lymphoma (Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's). Biomarkers of oxidative stress and DNA damage index (DI) ...

Abstract Split thickness skin grafts are widely used in treating burn injuries. To date, with limited availability of donor and minimal expansions offered by conventional grafting, it is challenging to cover large severe burns. In this study, novel synthetic alternating slit (AS) shaped cut patterns were developed tested evaluate the expansion potentials auxetic or negative Poisson’s ratio stru...

Watermelon [Citrullus lanatus (thumb.) Matsum and Nakai] cv. Charleston gray was grafted onto three rootstocks: Cucurbita pepo, Lagenaria siceraria and (Cucurbita maxima x C. moshata). The non grafted watermelon plant was used as control. In this experiment efficiency of two kinds of grafting methods: Tube grafting and Hole insertion grafting and it was found that, Hole insertion grafting gave ...

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Efficacy of AutologousMelanocyte Transplantation onAmnioticMembrane in PatientsWith Stable Leukoderma: A Randomized Clinical Trial Vitiligo is adisfiguringdiseasewithnodefinitive treatmentoptions that significantlyaffectspatients’qualityof life.Weaimed to compare, forwhatwebelieve to be the first time, the repigmentationefficacyof culturedepidermal cell suspension (CES) and amniotic membrane (A...

Interstitial cell (I-cell) migration in hydra is essential for establishment of the regional cell differentiation pattern in the organism. All previous in vivo studies have indicated that cell migration in hydra is a result of cell-cell interactions and chemotaxic gradients. Recently, in vitro cell adhesion studies indicated that isolated nematocytes could bind to substrata coated with isolated...

In the rat several paradigms of grafting of adrenal medulla into the striatum were studied following the induction of a parkinsonian model, using a unilateral 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) lesion of the substantia nigra. Direct autologous grafting of adrenal medulla into the caudate-putamen complex, a radiofrequency lesion of the striatum alone, and a radiofrequency lesion followed by delayed graf...

To examine how rod and cone function are differentially affected during retinal degeneration, and after subretinal cell grafting, we obtained light- and dark-adaptation curves by recording threshold multiunit responses from the superior colliculus of anesthetized rats. Unoperated RCS dystrophic and non-dystrophic rats were used and the effects of subretinal grafting in dystrophic rats of cells ...