The present study aimed to evaluate the potential of improving feeding value Egyptian clover (EC), ryegrass (R), triticale (T), barley (B), and oats (O) monoculture, or mixed with (EC+R), (EC+O), barely (EC+B), (EC+T) at 75:25% seeding rate, respectively, during two successive winter seasons 2018/19 2019/20. Harvesting plots was carried out 5 cm stubble height after 60, 100, 140 days from sowin...

Vascular functions are affected by wall shear stresses (WSS) applied on the endothelial cells (EC), as well as by the interactions of the EC with the adjacent smooth muscle cells (SMC). The present study was designed to investigate the effects of WSS on the endothelial interactions with its surroundings. For this purpose we developed and constructed two co-culture models of EC and SMC, and comp...

Intoxication by cytolethal distending toxin depends on assembly of CdtB, the active A component of this AB toxin, with the cell surface-binding (B) component, composed of the CdtA-CdtC heterodimer, to form the active holotoxin. Here we examine the cell surface binding properties of Escherichia coli-derived CdtA-II (CdtA-II(Ec)) and CdtC-II(Ec) and their capacity to provide a binding platform fo...