in order to evaluate the effects of drought stress and planting method on yield and yield components of two chickpea cultivars (cicer arietinum l.), an experiment was carried out at the research field of faculty of agriculture; shiraz university, using a split factorial randomized complete block design with four replications. the main factor was irrigation stop at different growth stages of chi...

PURPOSE To delineate the role of Sphingolipids (SPLs) in the human cornea and their cross-talks with transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β) in order to develop novel, non-invasive therapies. METHODS Human corneal fibroblasts (HCFs) were harvested from healthy donors, stimulated with Vitamin C to promote extracellular matrix assembly, treated with exogenous sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) or sp...

In a previous study we observed that the ability of intravenous infusions of prostaglandin I2 to attenuate vasoconstriction caused by intravenous infusions of angiotensin II was reduced in the renal but not mesenteric vasculature of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). One objective of the current study was to determine whether a renal defect in the angiotensin II/prostaglandin I2 interaction...

The intermolecular interactions of the two most basic Ru(II) complex dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), N719 and N749, with the iodine species are investigated using density functional theory (DFT). In addition to interactions with a single I2 molecule, multiple I2 interactions and simultaneous interactions of I2 and I(-) occur. N719 with two isothiocyanato (NCS) ligands interacts wit...

Postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) is a decline in cognitive performance after a surgery with anaesthesia. The exact reasons of surgery and/or anaesthesia resulting in POCD are unclear. The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of different concentration and duration time of isoflurane anaesthesia on cognitive performance and cellular mechanisms involved in learning and memory...