A 55-year-old woman underwent a low anterior resection for rectal cancer 7 years earlier at a different hospital. Thereafter, she often had such symptoms as abdominal pain, frequent bowel movements, and constipation. We considered postoperative bowel adhesion to be the cause of these symptoms, and a laparoscopic adhesiotomy was therefore performed twice. However, the symptoms did not substantia...

The scurvy shows an inflammatory disease and gingival bleeding. Nevertheless, in an animal model for guinea pigs, described by Den Hartog Jager in 1985, scurvy was associated with a motor neuron disease with demyelinization of the pyramidal tract, provoking neurogenic atrophy of muscles. Aiming at searching the protective role of vitamin C in nervous system, a pharmacological, morphological and...

Protoplasmic streaming is regarded as an important means of food transport and translocation of cytoplasm in the filamentous fungi (1-3). In addition, streaming may play a vital role in the migration of nuclei through fungous thalli (1, 4). In the septate fungi, cross-walls possessing a single minute central pore, 0.1 /~ diameter, are situated at intervals in the mycelium. Complex septal struct...

I N T R O D U C T I O N The nucleus is the information centre of the eukaryotic cell. Not only does it synthesize the mRNA for thousands of proteins, but it supplies regulated amounts of each mRNA to the cytoplasm. In addition it must replicate its entire structure accurately each cell cycle. The human genome contains l ‘8 m of DNA, so that an average human chromosome contains 40 mm of DNA in w...

the present research was aimed to study the effects of different sources of carotenoids and their varying concentrations on the reproductive functions of goldfish. the study was carried out in seven treatments with three replicates at the bony fish hatchery complex (rasht, iran) from december 2011 to may 2012. experimental diets containing 50, 100, and 150 mg kg-1 astaxanthin and 50, 100, and 1...

In this paper, we report the results of slight changes in the thermopower of long W, Mo, Zn, Cu, brass, and Ti wires, that resulted from changes in the wire's diameter or cross-sectional area. The samples used in the tests had a round shape with a diameter that ranged from tens of micron to 2 mm, which was much larger than the corresponding mean free paths of these materials. Nevertheless, a sm...

Cube based networks have received much attention over the past decade since they offer a rich interconnected structure with a number of desirable properties such as low diameter, high bisection width, lesser complexity and Cost. Among them the hypercube architecture is widely used network for parallel computer system due to its low diameter. The major drawback of hypercube based architectures i...