Purpose: To investigate the function and interaction of heat-shock cognate protein 70 (Hsc70) potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily A member 5 (KCNA5) in polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).Methods: Quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) western blot were used to measure Hsc70 KCNA5 expression PCOS. The effect on granulosa cell apoptosis was determined by flow c...

Nanoparticles (NPs) have been widely used in medical and therapeuticapplications. However, their albumin binding and their cytotoxicity assays havenot been well explored. In his study, the interaction of NiO NPs with human serumalbumin (HSA) was explored by circular dichroism (CD) study, molecular dockingand dynamic studies. Afterwards the cytotoxicity of NiO NPs against...

A series of eight high molecular weight (140,000-220,000) glycoproteins on human peripheral T cells were recognized by radioimmunoprecipitation with a rabbit antiserum. The pattern of antigens present on each of eight human T cell lines studied was unique, and no line displayed the range of antigens present on peripheral T cells. The pattern of bands on peripheral T cells changed after allogene...

Multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug resistant (XDR) strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis pose major problems for global health. The GeneXpert MTB/RIF (Xpert) assay rapidly detects resistance to rifampin (RIFr), but for detection of the additional resistance that defines MDR-TB (MDR tuberculosis) and XDR-TB, and for molecular epidemiology, specimen cultures and a biosafe infrastructu...

Using an in vitro heart bioassay, the pharmacological and biochemical properties of two cardioactive peptides derived from neural tissues of the moth, Manduca sexta, were analysed. Gel filtration of ventral nerve cords (VNC) from pharate adults identified two cardioacceleratory peptides (CAP1 and CAP2) with apparent molecular weights of 1000 and 500 Da, respectively. Both CAPs were localized to...

BACKGROUND The use of sensitive molecular techniques to detect rare cells in a population is of increasing interest to the molecular pathologist, but detection limits often are poorly defined in any given molecular assay. We combined the approaches of real-time quantitative PCR with ARMS(TM) allele-specific amplification in a novel assay for detecting mutant K-ras sequences in clinical samples....

Traditionally, biologists regularly used classical genetic approaches to characterize and dissect plant processes. However, this strategy is often impaired by redundancy, lethality or pleiotropy of gene functions, which prevent the isolation of viable mutants. The chemical genetic approach has been recognized as an alternative experimental strategy, which has the potential to circumvent these p...

Foodborne pathogens have been a cause of a large number of diseases worldwide and more so in developing countries. This has a major economic impact. It is important to contain them, and to do so, early detection is very crucial. Detection and diagnostics relied on culture-based methods to begin with and have developed in the recent past parallel to the developments towards immunological methods...

Based on the limited resources available to algal flora in Yazd province in the center of Iran, cultivation, purification and identification of soil algae from seven sites was performed in summer 2013. The soil samples were processed for analysis of Cd, Pb contents. The present paper attempts to analyze survey of soil blue-green algal identification in different types of stations, using morphol...

conclusions our study demonstrated that the b1 gene, more so than the re gene, showed positive samples and can be used to detect toxoplasmosis, although the b1 gene, in comparison to the re gene, did not show any superiority of molecular diagnosing capability. results also showed that toxoplasma molecular detection methods can be used instead of routine serological detection methods in a clinic...