Peyronie's disease (PD) is fibrosis localized in the tunica albuginea that is characterized by penile deformity and curvature. The pathogenesis of this disease remains unclear even though transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β)/smad signalling has been reported to be associated with PD. Recent studies have shown that phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt signalling regulates fibrotic responses incl...

I. Definition of the ArizonaGroup.155 II. History of the Arizona 6 III. Serologic Differentiation of ArizonaTypes. 158 IV. Occurrence and Distribution of the Arizona Group.162 A. Outbreaks of Infection Involving Multiple Cases..... 170 B. Observations Concerning Certain Serotypes............................................ 171 V. Comment............................................ 173 VI. Ackno...

Activation of PI3K/AKT pathway occurs frequently in tumors and is correlated with radioresistance. The PI3K/AKT pathway can be an important target for improvement of radiotherapy. Although adding of chemotherapy to radiation therapy regimen enhances survival in patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer, more effective therapies for increasing radiosensitivity are urgently needed. In this...

Two barley cultivars were subjected to water stress by immersing their root system in PEG 6000. The relative water content (RWC) of the leaves fell under these conditions and membrane disorganisation was evidenced by the injury index data. The two genotypes differed in their leaf water content under the applied stress. The aim of this work was to examine the relationship between proline accumul...

Study Design: Descriptive epidemiology study. Methods: Injury data for all players (n 1⁄4 78) selected for 1 national Rugby Union team over a 3-year period were analyzed using the international consensus statement methods. Player height (cm) and mass (kg) were recorded. Tournaments were grouped for comparisons as: autumn tournaments (2012 and 2013), Rugby World Cup (RWC; 2011), Six Nations (201...

Identifying gene interactions and markers associated with physiological traits, especially at later stages of grain filling, can help develop effective breeding methodology in wheat crop. Six generations (P1, P2, F1, F2, BC1P1 BC1P2) four different spring crosses (drought-responsive x drought susceptible) F3 generation a single cross, i.e., MACS6272 UP2828 were phenotyped genotyped to decipher ...

Objective: Grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) is one of the major crops widely cultivated for wine industry, as well production fresh and dried fruit in Azerbaijan. leafroll disease (GLD) affects vines throughout world considered most economically destructive among all virus virus-like diseases. Vineyard surveys were conducted to determine infection grapevine growing region Azerbaijan during 2019-20...

Domestic soybean production is getting weaker due to drought stress which affects all aspects of plant growth and metabolism, besides using adaptive varieties, increasing nutrition, especially potassium, also tolerance drought. The research aimed examine the effect potassium application on morphophysiological two varieties under stress. was conducted in a plastic house, Deli Serdang Regency, No...

Pressure-volume curves were determined for black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) trees from four full-sib families. During the first two years, trees were measured from a plantation on a dry site. In the third year, trees were sampled from the dry site and a wet site. Diurnal measurements of shoot water potential allowed in situ shoot turgor to be estimated in addition to standard water rela...

Plants of Ramonda serbica were dehydrated to 3.6% relative water content (RWC) by withholding water for 3 weeks, afterwards the plants were rehydrated for 1 week to 93.8% RWC. Plasma membranes were isolated from leaves using a two-phase aqueous polymer partition system. Compared with well-hydrated (control) leaves, dehydrated leaves suffered a reduction of about 75% in their plasma membrane lip...