in this research, the effect of different concentrations of chitosan (with low molecular weight) on in vitro proliferation of grape cultivar, ’bidaneh ghermez‘, was evaluated. 30 days after establishment, elongated shoots were cultured on the half strength murashige and skoog medium supplemented with 0.5 mg/l bap, 0.1 mg/l iba and different chitosan concentrations (0, 10, 20, 40 and 80 mg/l). t...

Nano-fertilizers can increase value of products in agriculture. Iron plays many important and essential roles in plant growth and development as compared to other micronutrients. In the present study, effects of different levels of enriched nano chelated Iron fertilizer (25, 50, 100, and 200 mg l-1)  were investigated in comparison with the common Iron (FeSO4.7H2O) on in vitro proliferation of ...

Results: The apoptosis index of bile duct epithelial cells in the 38 BA children (51.74%±19.93%) was significantly higher than that of the 16 normal controls (12.34%±19.32%, P<0.01), whereas no significant difference of cell proliferation index existed between the BA children (19.04%±9.78%) and the normal controls (12.68%±15.56%, P>0.05). Comparison of the apoptosis index with the proliferation...

Tumour heterogeneity may pose a problem when biopsy specimens are taken to measure proliferation (for example, in assessing response to therapy). Two "biopsy specimens" were taken from the centre and two from the edge of the luminal surface of 20 resected oesophageal adenocarcinomas. The proliferation index for each "biopsy specimen" was measured by counting Ki67 labelled nuclei in histological...

For prognostic analyses of p53 alterations (p53 gene mutations + p53 immunopositivity) and Mib-1 proliferation index, we investigated 42 primary malignant lipomatous tumors for which complete clinical data and a long follow-up were available. p53 gene mutations were investigated by PCR-single strand conformation polymorphism-sequencing analysis, and immunohistochemistry was used to determine p5...

BACKGROUND In the breast cancer, the decision whether to administer adjuvant therapy is increasingly influenced by the Ki-67 proliferation index. In the present retrospective study, we investigated if this index could predict the therapeutic response to radiation therapy in small cell lung cancer (SCLC). METHODS Data from 19 SCLC patients who received thoracic radiation therapy were included....