Synovial membrane and synovial fluid represent a good source of mesenchymal stem cells. They have been regarded as a promising therapeutic tool for musculoskeletal regeneration. Synovium-derived mesenchymal stem cells have higher expression of CD44 and better chondrogenic potential in vitro than mesenchymal stem cells from other tissues. In this study we compared mesenchymal stem cells from syn...

For the first few days of cultivation of connective tissue in hypertonic, hypotonic, and diluted medium, cell proliferation was stimulated. The first outgrowths of new cells in the modified media did not occur sooner than in normal medium. In hypertonic medium the density of the area of cell proliferation appeared to be greater than the control, but in hypotonic or diluted medium there seemed t...

Two types of sperm, nucleate eupyrene and anucleate apyrene, occur in the silkworm as in other lepidopteran species. Hormones and other substances have been assumed to play important roles in sperm dimorphism. We established an in vitro cultivation system for silkworm spermatocytes, and found that apyrene sperm are not produced when spermatocytes from larval testes are cultivated, though eupyre...

This paper investigates the association between expression of CD14 and occurrence of apoptosis in blood monocytes, resident (RESMAC) and inflammatory macrophages from heifer mammary glands after infusion of PBS (INFMACPBS) or LPS (INFMACLPS). Resident macrophages (RESMAC) were obtained before, and inflammatory macrophages (INFMACPBS and INFMACLPS) 24 h after, induction of an inflammatory respon...

The microbial burden of the Phoenix spacecraft assembly environment was assessed in a systematic manner via several cultivation-based techniques and a suite of NASA-certified, cultivation-independent biomolecule-based detection assays. Extremotolerant bacteria that could potentially survive conditions experienced en route to Mars or on the planet's surface were isolated with a series of cultiva...

Rockwool (RC) and peat are two common substrates used worldwide in horticultural crop production. In recent years environmental and ecological concerns raised the demand for reducing the use of RC and peat. Although coconut coir (CC) has been increasingly used as an alternative to RC and peat, it is still needed to comprehensively evaluate the feasibility of CC before widely used. To meet this ...

Potential long-term cardioprotection was investigated in an extensive experimental study. Lactobacillus cultivation components (LCC) were administered intravenously in anesthetized rats 1, 7, and 21 days before global ischemia (GI). GI was produced by full stop flow in isolated Langendorff-perfused hearts for 20 min and was followed by reperfusion. Control animals were injected with saline. LCC...

The organization of crop cultivation practices is still far from completion, and Web Resources are not used adequately. This paper proposed a method, based on SVM, to organize the knowledge of crop cultivation practices efficiently from Web Resources. The knowledge organization method of crop cultivation was proposed with Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) in the application of the crop cultivat...

It was recognized only recently that subglacial ecosystems support considerable methanogenic activity, thus significantly contributing the global methane production. However, only limited knowledge is available on the physiological characteristics of this kind of methanogenic community because of the technical constraints associated with sampling and cultivation under corresponding environmenta...

A field experiment was conducted during kharif season of 2013 to find out the effect of ecofriendly modified urea materialsunder aerobic and puddled rice cultivation on growth andyield of rice at College Farm, PJTSAU. The results revealed with application of natural nitrification inhibitors (NNI)significantly improved plant growth parameters and inturn grain yield over prilled urea (PU)in both ...