Background: Osteosarcoma (OS) represents the most common primary bone tumor in humans and companion dogs, being practically phenotypically identical. There is a need for effective treatments to extend survival of patients with OS. Here, we examine dosimetry beagle dogs cross-reactivity human tissues novel antibody, IF3, that targets insulin growth factor receptor type 2 (IGF2R), which overexpre...

High-dose rate endorectal brachytherapy (HDR-EBT) is mainly used as a palliative treatment modality. In this paper, we compare dosimetry distributions for a single-channel catheter (Miami) applicator with distributions of the inflatable multichannel (Novi Sad) endorectal applicator. The comparisons were made with respect to dose coverage to the clinical tumor volume as well as to the bladder, r...

objective(s):sea cucumber derived bioactive compound is considered efficient in treatment of bone disorders. this study was performed   to evaluate the effect of this extract on differentiation of rat bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (rbmmsc) into osteogenic lineage. materials and methods: isolated rbmmsc were grown in dmem supplemented with 10% fbs. the cells were exposed to different concen...

background: langerhans' cell histiocytosis (lch) is a reactive proliferative disease of unknown pathogenesis characterized by proliferation of langerhans cells. involvement of bone marrow (bm), liver and lung are related to high risk factors and poor survival. the aim of this report is to highlight the clinical and haematological findings of 5 cases of lch with bm infiltration which may help to...

it is estimated that annually 10 million people are affected by traumatic brain injury and it is one of the major causes of death and disability in accidents. studies have shown the potential therapeutic value of neural stem cell therapies. also, neural stem cell motility and migration to the site of injury has a great regeneration value of the damaged tissues. extracellular and intracellular f...

background: bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (bmmscs) transplantation has been considered as a promising milestone in liver fibrosis treatment. however, low amounts of homing are a major obstacle. we aimed to investigate the role of melatonin pretreatment in bmmsc homing into experimental liver fibrosis. methods: bmmscs were obtained, grown, propagated and preconditioned with 5 µm mel...

Background: Radiation absorbed dose to the red bone marrow, a critical organ in the therapy of thyroid carcinoma, is generally kept below 2 Gy for non-myeloablative therapies. The aim of this study was to calculate bone marrow radiation dose by using MIRDOSE3 package program and to optimize the safe limit of activity to be administered to the thyroid cancer patients. Materials and Methods: In t...

objective(s) bone marrow is the traditional source of human multipotent mesenchymal stem cells (mscs), but adipose tissue appears to be an alternative and more readily available source. in this study, rat adipose-derived stem cells (adscs) were induced to differentiate into schwann-like cells and compared with rat bone marrow stem cells (bmscs) for their schwann-like cells differentiation poten...

adenocarcinoma of the stomach was the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide through most of the 20th century. usual presentations of gastric cancer include anorexia, epigastric pain or discomfort and weakness. rarely, patients present with unusual clinical manifestations. in this article, we report two cases with uncommon presentations of gastric adenocarcinoma. the first patient was ...