Background: Basal cell carcinomas (BCC) are the most prevalent among non-melanoma skin cancers (NMSC), which correspond to the most common skin cancers. BCC histopathological subtyping is a problem in therapeutic management. Therefore, we have decided to perform a histopathologic study for better classification of BCCs based on interobserver diagnostic judgment. Methods: We conducted this cross...

THE WORLD'S FOOD SUPPLY is now unimaginable without the tomato, which although often called a vegetable actually fruit of Solanum lycopersicum species, native to Central and South America. It gradually diffused through world after 1500, finally becoming world's largest “vegetable” crop, with recent harvests around 180 million metric tons year, nearly twice that dry onions, five times peppers, m...

India is the 3rd largest liquor market in the world and one of the fastest growing markets in the world, on the back of demographics & economy. The Indian liquor market, which is divided into various categories like IMFL (Indianmade foreign liquor), imported liquor, beer and country-made liquor, is brimming with growth. Challenges like the restrictive policies of states with regard to movement,...

Ischemic heart disease presents with various symptoms, and chest pain is a chief complaint. Occlusion of the left main trunk often results in serious symptoms such as cardiogenic shock. However, while extremely rare, left main trunk occlusion can present with only slight chronic symptoms. In the present case, a 62-year-old woman with few risk factors for ischemic heart disease visited our hospi...

We have previously shown that broccoli sprouts are a rich source of chemopreventive isothiocyanates, which potently induce carcinogen-detoxifying enzymes and inhibit the development of mammary and skin tumors in rodents. However, the principal isothiocyanate present in broccoli sprout extracts, sulforaphane, not only induces carcinogen-detoxifying enzymes but also activates apoptosis and blocks...

Previously, we showed improved shelf life for agrobacterial isopentenyltransferase (ipt) transgenic broccoli (Brassica oleracea var. italica), with yield comparable to commercial varieties, because of the protection mechanism offered by molecular chaperones and stress-related proteins. Here, we used proximate analysis to examine macronutrients, chemical and mineral constituents as well as anti-...

Broccoli is a food often consumed for its potential health-promoting properties. The health benefits of broccoli are partly associated with secondary plant compounds that have bioactivity; glucosinolates and phenolic acids are two of the most abundant and important in broccoli. In an effort to determine how variety, stress, and production conditions affect the production of these bioactive comp...

The effect freeze-drying conditions, i.e. particle size, use of infrared radiation, and drying air temperature in Atmospheric Freeze-Drying (AFD) or freezing rate in vacuum Freeze-Drying (VFD) on the total selenium content, total polyphenols content and anti-radical power of broccoli was investigated. Two factorial designs were used, with three factors in two levels each one, for each type of f...