BACKGROUND Small cell lung cancer accounts for approximately 20% of new cases of lung cancer, and advanced disease is prevalent at the time of diagnosis. Neuron-specific enolase (NSE) has been the primary tumor marker in small cell lung cancer but it has relatively low sensitivity in early-stage disease. Progastrin-releasing peptide (proGRP) is a promising alternative or complementary marker fo...

This study aimed to determine the impact of elevated temperature combined with different levels dietary methionine concentrations on feed intake (FI) and brain expression selected neuropeptides one receptor involved in appetite control juvenile cobia (approximately 3.7 g body weight). The genes studies were neuropeptide y, npy; agouti-related protein, agrp ; cocaine- amphetamine-regulated trans...

In acid soils, Rhizobium favelukesii strains, known as Oregon-like are a potential risk for alfalfa production given their parasitic behaviour. this study, we isolated five strains (ORY1 to ORY5) from nodules grown in Uruguayan with 99.7% and 100% 16S rRNA gene sequence identity R. type strain of LUP83. The BOX profiles the isolates showed two different patterns, suggesting some diversity among...

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Allitinib, a novel irreversible selective inhibitor of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) 1 and human epidermal receptor 2 (ErbB2), is currently in clinical trials in China for the treatment of solid tumors. It is a structural analog of lapatinib but has an acrylamide side chain. Sixteen metabolites of allitinib were detected by ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography/quadrupole t...

Smooth lipopolysaccharides (SLPS) from Brucella abortus contain A-epitopes against which the majority of serum antibodies are directed during infections. SLPS from Yersinia enterocolitica 0:9 possesses identical epitopes, which are the cause for serological cross-reactivity. All Brucella spp. possess M- and C-epitopes which are not present in Y. enterocolitica 0:9. In order to examine the usefu...

BACKGROUND Timing of the first zygotic cleavage is an accurate predictor of embryo quality. Embryos that cleaved early (EC) have been shown to exhibit higher develop- mental viability compared to those that cleaved at a later period (LC). However, the vi- ability of EC embryos in comparison to LC embryos after vitrification is unknown. The present study aims to investigate the post-vitrificatio...

For some pneumococci the fluoroquinolone MICs are low but the mutant prevention concentrations (MPCs) are high; this difference defines in vitro the mutant selection window (MSW). We investigated in vivo the bacterial reduction and the occurrence of resistant mutants with moxifloxacin (MFX; 400 mg once daily) or levofloxacin (LVX; 500 mg twice daily) in treatments similar to those in humans wit...

4-(4-Methyl-piperazin-1-ylmethyl)-N-[6-methyl-5-(4-pyridin-3-yl-pyrimidin-2-ylamino)-pyridin-3-yl]-3-trifluoromethyl-benzamide (flumatinib, HH-GV678), an antineoplastic tyrosine kinase inhibitor, is currently in Phase I clinical trials in China for the treatment of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). The purpose of this study was to identify the metabolites of flumatinib in CML patients, with t...

OBJECTIVE To compare the effect of using open and closed carriers on count of inner cell mass in vitrified mouse blastocyst after warming. METHODS The experimental study was conducted at Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran, from April to September 2010. Forty female NMRI (Naval Medical Research Institute, USA) mice were injected with pregnant mare's serum gonadotropi...