background: it is known that basic science and general courses play a vital role in training of medical students. the medical students' comprehensive basic science examination (cbse) scores seem to be a potential tool for predicting their comprehensive pre-internship examination (cpie) scores. purpose: to evaluate the predictive validity of medical students' cbse scores for predicting their cpi...

background: score worksheets have been extracted for phd candidates in epidemiology, microbiology and parasitology for the academic year of 1386-87. the main objective in this study is the impact and importance of different subjects on the discrimination results of admission. methods: extracted scores from worksheets are analyzed by minitab15 statistical toolbox. the regression values of differ...

1 Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology, School of Biological Sciences, College of Basic and Applied Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon, P. O. Box LG54, Legon, Accra, Ghana. 2 Department of Chemistry,School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, College of Basic and Applied Science, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana. 3 Department of Physiology, Development and Neurosci...

Aims: Glucose evoked changes in profibrotic transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGFs1), increase connexin hemichannel mediated ATP release kidney proximal tubule cells. With linked to inflammation, we evaluated the efficacy of blocker Peptide 5 negating induced inflammatory cytokine secretion cells. Methods: Primary human tubular epithelial cells (hPTECs), and immortalised (HK2) were treated w...

sex in evolution Adi Livnat∗† ‡, Christos Papadimitriou ‡ , Jonathan Dushoff § and Marcus W. Feldman ¶ †Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA,‡Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA,§Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1 CANADA, and ¶Departme...

Department of Veterinary Pharmacology, Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Science, Osaka Prefecture University, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Sakai Osaka 599-8531, Japan, Department of Pharmacology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan and Division of neuronal Network, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Toky...

JOAN T. RICHTSMEIER*, SUBHASH R. LELE†, AND THEODORE M. COLE III‡ *Department of Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA; Center for Craniofacial Development and Disorders, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA †Department of Mathematical and Statistical Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada ‡Department of Basic Me...

Masoud Sheikh, Hamid Reza Eshraghi, Masoud Khoshnia, Masoumeh Mazandarani & Abdolvahab Moradi* Department of Veterinary Basic Science, College of Veterinary Science, Science and Research branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran; Golestan Research Center of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran; Department of Botany, Gorgan Branch, Islamic Az...