Introduction: Preliminary studies have con.rmed reduction in cell death following treatment with antioxidants. According to this .nding we study the relationship between consumption of CoQ10 and expression of Bax and Bcl2 in hippocampus following ischemia/reperfusion as proteins involved in cell programmed death or apoptosis. Methods: We studied the protective role of CoQ10 against ischemia-rep...

aegilops triuncialis l. (2n=4x=28; ctctutut) is one of the tetraploid aegilops species harboring valuable genes for resistance to many biotic and abiotic stresses. in the present study the bread wheat cultivars mv17, navid, omid, pishgam, zarin were crossed with an accession of ae. triuncialis and the resulted f1 and f2 (obtained by the selfing of f1 plants) hybrids studied using the convention...

BACKGROUND Automated systems have enabled the counting of particles in urine to be standardized. Their superiority over traditional sediment analysis has been well documented, but they have not gained wide acceptance. The reasons for this are that sediment analysis has been performed and interpreted for decades. Additionally, pathologic casts and other unknown particles still must be confirmed ...

Fluorescence in situ hybridization allows the enumeration of chromosomal abnormalities in interphase cell nuclei. This process is called dot counting. To estimate the distribution of chromosomes per cell, a large number of cells have to be analyzed, especially when the frequency of aberrant cells is low. Automation of dot counting is required because manual counting is tedious, fatiguing, and t...