Group B Streptococcus (GBS), a commensal in the body, causes wide range of infectious diseases. This bacterium is dangerous for pregnant women and their babies, whom it responsible early neonatal bacterial sepsis (EOS). The colonisation levels GBS its resistance profile to antibiotics provide important information that useful orienting prevention strategies. There are few data available on subj...

We report the microfluidic control of a synthetic biological system using a one milliliter volume microbioreactor. Precise fluid injection and mixing enable control schemes such as rapid medium introduction in continuous culture conditions. A Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain with a dual inducible fluorescent reporter system was tested with the microbioreactor cultivation for precise induction co...

AIMS In patients with asymptomatic ventricular pre-excitation (VPE) persistent at exercise stress test, this study evaluates the proportion of cases with adverse conduction properties of the atrioventricular accessory pathway (AP) at invasive electrophysiological study and the long-term follow-up after they received treatment according to pre-determined criteria. METHODS AND RESULTS Over 10 y...

OBJECTIVES We investigated the effects on fracture healing of two up-regulators of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) in a rat model of an open femoral osteotomy: tadalafil, a phosphodiesterase inhibitor, and the recently reported nutraceutical, COMB-4 (consisting of L-citrulline, Paullinia cupana, ginger and muira puama), given orally for either 14 or 42 days. MATERIALS AND METHODS Unila...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the potential of diagnostic tests based on interferon-gamma inducible protein (IP)-10 and monocyte chemotactic protein (MCP)-2, and compare the performance with the QuantiFERON TB Gold In-Tube (QFT-IT; Cellestis, Carnagie, Australia) test. IP-10 and MCP-2 were determined in supernatants from whole blood stimulated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis-spec...

Depression and anxiety disorders are the most common mental health problems associated with oxidative stress. Although famous for its anxiolytic effect, antidepressant effect of valerian-hops combination was not previously studied, also relationship between sedative stress markers is unclear. The current research has two objectives: (1) to compare escitalopram (2) evaluate sedative/anxiolytic e...

spinal cord injury (sci) is a crucial complication that results in neurons degeneration. the sci lead to triggering of secondary complications such as inflammation that in turn has a key role in neurodegeneration development. the previous studies showed that tnf-α and inos genes expression increased significantly after sci. as a consequence, these genes overexpression intensify the inflammation...

The second cohomology group of a left skew brace with coefficients in trivial non-trivial actions is defined, its connection extensions by braces established and Wells' like exact sequence relating the inducible automorphisms an extension constructed.

Hepatoma cells derived from liver carcinoma are a candidate cell source for bioartificial (BAL) systems due to their high proliferative capacity, although function of hepatoma is considerably low compared with primary hepatocytes. In our previous study, genetically engineered mouse inducible were established by transducing liver-enriched transcription factor (LETF) genes. this we aimed develop ...