Alstromeria is a new cut flower in Iran that due to the high performance, long life, and pretty flowers and colors diversity is highly regarded. Premature yellowing of leaves in cut flowersAlstromeria before petal fall is the most important factor limiting the vase life of flowers. To delay leaf yellowing and increased quality, factorial experiment based on completely randomized design carried ...

OBJECTIVE Insulin may play important roles in brain metabolism. Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy ((1)H-MRS) of the central nervous system gives information on neuronal viability, cellular energy, and membrane status. To elucidate the specific role of insulin action in the brain, we estimated neurometabolites with (1)H-MRS and assessed their regulation by insulin infusion and their relatio...

OBJECTIVES To describe the prevalence and characteristics of isolates of Neisseria gonorrhoeae grown from urine samples that produced negative results with nucleic acid amplification assays (NAA) targeting the cppB gene. METHODS An initial cluster of culture positive, but cppB gene based NAA negative, gonococcal infections was recognised. Urine samples and suspensions of gonococci isolated ov...

Adathoda vasica is a medicinal plant beneficial for the treatment of asthma, cough, haemorragic disorders, hepatitis and fevers. The leaves of the plant contain a mixture of alkaloid i.e., vasicine and vasicinone. Vasicine has numerous pharmacological activities viz., anti-malarial, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antidiabetic, anti-bacterial etc. The study on influence of IBA and NAA on rootin...

In vitro callogenesis was achieved from leaf explants of Boerhaavia diffusa Linn. on basal medium supplemented with different concentrations of BAP, NAA, Kn and IAA. Regeneration of shoot buds were observed on MS medium supplemented with BAP and NAA at different concentrations. In some of the replicates the shoot buds were elongated and terminated in flower buds. In vitro flowering occurred wit...

OBJECTIVES Phase I (PhI): assess the safety of Polyphenon E in people with multiple sclerosis (MS) and determine the futility of Polyphenon E as a neuroprotective agent. Correlate plasma levels of EGCG with neuroprotective effects. Phase II (PhII): Further assess safety and confirm the neuroprotective effects of Polyphenon E. DESIGN PhI: single group futility study. PhII: parallel group rando...

A test mixture of five phytohormones [naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA), naphthoxyacetic acid (NOA), indoleacetic acid (IAA), indolebutyric acid (IBA), and indolepropionic acid (IPA)] was investigated. These compounds were cleanly separated with good resolution by capillary zone electrophoresis with a UV diode array detector using 20 mM sodium phosphate buffer (pH 7.25). The lowest detection limit w...

This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of plant growth regulators on in vitro shoot multiplication, vitrification and rooting of two carnation cultivars (Eskimo Mogr and Innove Orange Bogr). Isolated axillary buds were cultured on MS medium supplemented with different levels of Benzyl amino purine (BAP) or kinetin (Kin) in combination with 0.2 mg/l NAA and shoot multiplication and vitr...

BACKGROUND Closed head injury results in a diverse pattern of anatomical and biochemical changes in the brain, reflected in 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) [1]. The categorization of these changes is often complicated by the presence of underlying macromolecules and lipids, especially in severe cases of non-accidental injury in infants [2]. Continuous wavelet transform methods have bee...