Aim. Chronic maternal iron deficiency anemia has been found to be related with preterm delivery, low birth weight and intrauterine growth retardation. The potential detrimental effects of maternal anemia on the transplacental fetal oxygen extraction during labor have not been investigated yet. Method. Upon the spontaneous initiation of delivery among 32 term pregnant women, half of them with he...

Iron plays the central role in oxygen transport by erythrocytes as a constituent of heme and hemoglobin. The importance of iron and heme is also to be found in their regulatory roles during erythroblast maturation. The transcription factor Bach1 may be involved in their regulatory roles since it is deactivated by direct binding of heme. To address whether Bach1 is involved in the responses of e...

In this research work, environmental monitoring processes and assessments are carried out by the modeling analysis of water quality Chambal River in state Rajasthan. Various samples were collected from different locations along course river flow. This is used for kinds human, animal, agriculture corp. activities. Comparative analyses conducted on parameters, viz. biochemical oxygen demand, chem...

Statins are cholesterol-lowering drugs widely used in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases; however, they are associated with various types of myopathies. Statins inhibit 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase and thus decrease biosynthesis of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and may also reduce ubiquinones, essential coenzymes of a mitochondrial electron transport ch...

Distal arterioles with limited smooth muscles help maintain the high blood flow and low pressure in the lung circulation. Chronic hypoxia induces lung distal vessel muscularization. However, the molecular events that trigger alveolar hypoxia-induced peripheral endothelium modulation of vessel wall smooth muscle cell (SMC) proliferation and filling of nonmuscular areas are unclear. Here, we inve...

Potassium (K) deficiency damaged membrane stability through irregular reactive oxygen species (ROS) caused by K stress while osmotic adjustment and antioxidant capacities play an essential role in preventing plants from oxidative damages. To investigate the difference of osmoprotectants enzyme activities root, two representative maize varieties, 90-21-3 (K-tolerant) D937 (K-sensitive), were hyd...

This paper presents, for the first time, results of studies electrochemical reaction oxygen reduction on Sr2Fe1.5Mo0.5O6-? and Sr-deficient Sr1.95Fe1.5Mo0.5O6-?, as promising electrodes solid state devices, by impedance method with subsequent interpretation data using concepts outlined in Adler et al. model. It was established that both is determined two relaxation processes associated diffusio...

objective: surgery is considered the primary treatment for male infertility from clinical varicocele. one of the main events associated with varicocele is excessive production of reactive oxygen species (ros). n-acetyl-l-cysteine (nac), an antioxidant that scavenges free radicals, is considered a supplement to alleviate glutathione (gsh) depletion during oxidative stress. despite beneficial eff...

the green revolution fulfilled the food demand of crowded millions. from the time of green revolution to till date high yielding and fertilizer responsive varieties have evolved to increase the production per unit area. to improve the productivity only major nutrients are concentrated almost in all crops. though the importance of micronutrient realized during past decades in most of the crops b...

Background Therapeutic vaccination against prostate cancer (CaP) remains marginally effective. A reason for failure may stem from the fact that vaccine cells are usually cultured in ordinary air. Solid tumours including CaP contain regions with oxygen deficiency (hypoxia) secondary to the lack of blood supply to the growing tumour nodules, which may lead to changes in expression of cancer-assoc...