BACKGROUND Patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) have an increased prevalence of gallstones. AIMS To study prospectively the incidence of gallstones and gall bladder contractility in patients with SCI. PATIENTS AND METHODS Thirty six consecutive patients with SCI were studied: 18 patients with SCI above thoracic 10 neuronal segment (> T10) and 18 patients with SCI below T10 (< T10). An equ...

Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), a family of isomers of octadecadienoic acid, inhibits rat mammary carcinogenesis, angiogenesis, and lung metastasis from a transplantable mammary tumor. c9,t11-CLA, the predominant isomer in dairy products, and t10,c12-CLA, a component of CLA supplements, are equally effective. The objective of the current studies was to test the efficacy of these two CLA isomers...

estimated at 4.0 to 4.5 t ha 1 (Illy, 1997; Wopereis et al., 1999), and in general two crops per year are grown. Development of improved fertilizer recommendations entirely based This compares to average yields in the Sahelian and on field experiments is time-consuming and costly. We employed a comSavannah regions of 3.0 to 5.5 t ha 1. The cropping bination of two simulation models and selected...

Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) inhibits rat mammary carcinogenesis, in part by inducing apoptosis of preneoplastic and neoplastic mammary epithelial cells. The current study focused on the mechanism by which apoptosis is induced. In TM4t mammary tumor cells, trans-10,cis-12 (t10,c12)-CLA induced proapoptotic C/EBP-homologous protein (CHOP) concurrent with the cleavage of poly(ADP-ribose) polyme...

Adeno-associated virus (AAV) mediated gene transfer has been demonstrated to be an effective approach for treating Parkinson's disease (PD). Triptolide T10 is a monomeric compound isolated from tripterygium wilfordii Hook.f. (Thunder God vine), a traditional Chinese herb for anti-inflammatory medications. In the present study, we co-administered T10 with recombinant AAV2 in SH-SY5Y human neurob...

The low average grain yield (0.7 ton ha(-1)) of tef in Ethiopia is mainly attributed to low soil fertility, and inappropriate tillage and weeds control practices. Despite this, limited scientific information has been documented so far on their interaction effects on tef crop productivity in northern Ethiopia. The objective of this study was to assess the separate and interaction effects of till...

An insight into the balanced crop nutrition and efficient irrigation will be rewarding to attain profitable bulb yield of shallow-rooted high nutrient requiring aggregatum onion. To develop fertilizer prescription equations(FPEs) for onion under drip fertigation by encompassing Soil Test Crop Response approach (STCR), a field experiment was conducted in Palaviduthi soil series with 15 treatment...

Abstract AIMS To monitor changes in IVIM parameters response to JAS239 treatment preclinical glioblastoma models. METHOD C57BL/6 mice were injected intracranially with 5x105 GL261 cells and tumours observed on T2 weighted MRI. Mice imaged day 0 (T0, baseline), 3 (T3), 6 (T6) of post-treatment 10 (T10). DWI was performed using a single-shot spin-echo echo planar sequence processed Matlab acquire...

Conjugated linoleic acids (CLA) are a family of isomers of linoleic acid. CLA increases growth arrest and apoptosis of human colorectal cancer cells through an isomer-specific manner. ATF3 belongs to the ATF/CREB family of transcription factors and is associated with apoptosis in colorectal cancer. The present study was performed to investigate the molecular mechanism by which t10, c12-CLA stim...

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