OBJECTIVE This study aimed to assess the long-term safety and clinical effectiveness of the Xience V everolimus-eluting stent (EES) compared to both Taxus paclitaxel-eluting stent (PES) and Cypher sirolimus-eluting stent (SES) in an unselected patient population. BACKGROUND There are limited long-term data comparing Xience V EES vs the first-generation Cypher SES. METHODS This retrospective...

—Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia) populations are declining in many portions of their range, and research and management efforts into stemming declines are underway. One tool with promise is the artificial burrow, which can supplement nesting opportunities and play a role in research, mitigation, translocation, and reintroduction studies. However, few studies directly assess important burrow ...

OBJECTIVES The JACTAX HD trial ("JACTAX" Trial Drug Eluting Stent Trial) evaluated the safety and clinical performance of a novel JACTAX HD (Boston Scientific Corporation, Natick, Massachusetts) paclitaxel-eluting stent (PES) in de novo coronary lesions. BACKGROUND The JACTAX HD (Boston Scientific) stent consists of a pre-crimped bare-metal Liberté (Boston Scientific) stent coated on its ablu...

BACKGROUND Incomplete stent apposition (ISA) is an unusual finding of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) that may occur both after drug-eluting stent (DES) or bare-metal stent (BMS) implantation and could be associated with late stent thrombosis. Controversy still remains about whether the risk of late-acquired ISA is increased after DES implantation. This meta-analysis aimed to clarify whether DE...

Plants are rich source of natural products used for centuries to cure various the plant-derived medicines are based upon the premise that they contain natural substances that can promote health and alleviate illness. Silver NPs represent material, which can be used as a potential antibacterial agent in medical applications and different commercial products due to its biological activity. Recent...

Taxol is a very important anticancer drug which was first isolated from Yew plant (Taxus spp.). However, Taxol supply by extraction from natural sources, has several limitations, and cannot meet current market's demands. Therefore, it seems necessary to use alternative production methods. Producing Taxol through biotechnological approaches is among the main options which have some advantages su...

Yew trees are famous for production of the anti-cancer drug Taxol (paclitaxel). A new study sheds light on why endophytic fungi that live inside Yew trees also make the same drug.

The taxonomy of an ancient gymnosperm genus Taxus, with high value in horticulture and medicine, is perplexing because few reliable morphological characters for diagnosing species. Here, we performed a comprehensive investigation the evolutionary dynamics Taxus chloroplast genomes estimated phylogenetic relationships, divergence times, ancestral distributions species by comparing 18 complete ge...

Cell culture is an effective technology for taxol production. This paper discusses the effect of Taxus cell cultures on the 18S rRNA gene sequences based on the phylogenetic analysis of cultured T. chinensis cells and related species. The phylogenetic tree is reconstructed using the maximum parsimony method and the relative rate test to test the hypothesis of a molecular clock. The phylogenetic...