the aim of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity of the population of fez and casablanca in morocco to dry white beans (phaseolus vulgaris) and to investigate the effect of food processing (heat and/or enzymatic hydrolysis by pepsin) on this sensitivity. work was based on a bank consisting of 146 sera from patients with atopic hypersensitivity in order to evaluate specific immunoglobulin e...

calcium-binding proteins play essential roles in the cell. one important class of calcium-binding proteins is the annexin family. this is a family of 13 proteins, which binds to phospholipids in a calcium-dependent manner. osteosarcoma cell line (mg-63) is a transformed cell that has many characteristics of the differentiated cell, such as a considerable serum dependency in its growth rate. usi...

Objective(s): To evaluate the role of Tc-99m TRODAT-1 Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) in Parkinson’s Disease (PD) by assessing the correlation of clinical disease severity, disease duration and age at onset of disease with specific uptake ratio of Tc-99m TRODAT-1 in striatum.Methods: The study included 63 patients in age range of 40-72 years with clinical diagnosis of PD and ...

The aim of this study is to optimize performance functions of turbofan engines considering the off-design model of turbofan engine as well as employing multi-objective genetic algorithm. The design variables including high-pressure compressor pressure ratio, low-pressure compressor pressure ratio, fan pressure ratio and bypass ratio are calculated in such a way that the corresponding functions ...

The nuclear factor of activated T cells 5 (NFAT5 or TonEBP) is a Rel family transcriptional activator and is activated by hypertonic conditions. Several studies point to a possible connection between nuclear translocation and DNA binding; however, the mechanism of NFAT5 nuclear translocation and the effect of DNA binding on retaining NFAT5 in the nucleus are largely unknown. Recent experiments ...

Lectin binding histochemistry was performed on the developing sympathetic ganglionic cells to investigate the distribution and density of defined carbohydrate terminals on the cell surface glycoproteins during autonomic system morphogenesis. Sprague-Dauley rat embryos from 9th gestational day to birth were fixed and paraffinized. Serial sections of these specimens were incubated with different ...

Porophyrins and their metal derivatives are strong DNA binders with association constant of  to  . Some of these compounds have been used for the radiations sensitization therapy of cancer and are targeted to interact with cellular DNA. Binding of porphyrins to DNA changes the expectral and other physic chemical characteristic of porphyrins, The mode of binding can be extracted from inspection ...