background and objectives : dna molecular weight marker is widely used in molecular biology experiments incurring considerable costs on low-budget settings. materials and methods : here a pcr-supported procedure is described that uses 10 primer pairs targeting chromosomal dna from the harmless vaccinal bacillus anthracis sterne 34f2 strain as template. a single pcr protocol is used to reproduce...

objective: leishmaniasis is one of the significant causes of morbidity and mortality in several countries. it is an important problem in endemic areas such as iran. the goal in treatment of leishmaniasis is to reduce the disease period and leave no evidence of any remaining scars or lesions. a derivative of artemisinin is artemether. scientists believe that the strong action of artemether again...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES DNA ladder contains DNA fragments of different length but with known size, used to determine the size of unknown DNA molecules. Different DNA ladders are available for expected DNA length. Conserved sequences were selected for design of primers to generate DNA fragments of known specific size. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this study, we describe a method by which DNA lad...

Cell death may occur by either of two mechanisms: necrosis or apoptosis (programmed cell death). In this paper, we demonstrate extensive chromatin cleavage into oligonucleosome-length fragments (DNA ladder) in transplanted Morris hepatoma 7777 tissue, which is suggestive of the stimulation of an endogenous endonuclease activity previously found to be involved in the process of apoptosis. The ex...

We have shown previously that platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) has trophic effects on dopaminergic neurons in vitro. We now examined a mouse neuroblastoma cell line, NB41, for its response to PDGF and studied their phenotypic characteristics following introduction of an antisense PDGF beta-receptor RNA. NB41 cells produce both PDGF-AA and -BB; however, they carry only PDGF beta-receptors, ...

DNA molecular weight standard control, also called DNA marker (ladder), has been widely used in the experiments of molecular biology. In the paper, we report a method by which DNA marker was prepared based on multiple PCR technique. 100-1000 bp DNA fragments were amplified using the primers designed according to the 6631 ~ 7630 position of lambda DNA. Target DNA fragments were amplified using T...

Monochloramine (NH2Cl) is known to be one of the virulence factors in Helicobacter pylori-associated gastric mucosal injury. The present study was designed to examine NH2Cl-evoked DNA fragmentation in the gastric epithelial cell line MKN45. NH2Cl was produced by mixing NH3 with sodium hypochlorite (NaClO). MKN45 cells were exposed to NH2Cl, NH3, or NaClO in Hanks' balanced salt solution. DNA cl...