Impaired glucose tolerance has several adverse effects on growing fetus. In this study we evaluated the effect of excessive weight gain during pregnancy on the risk of glucose intolerance in pregnant women. A case-control study was conducted through which the glucose tolerance status after 100 gram oral glucose intake was compared between 60 pregnant women with maximum 10 weeks of gestation and...

this experiment was conducted to determine the ame, amen, tme and tmen of beet pulp fed to male ostriches at  their 90 d of age. different levels of beet pulp (0, 15, 30 and 40%) were fed through replacements in the basal diet. for a determination of ame and amen using marker method, beet pulp was replaced in the basal diet at 40%. a number of 16 vs. 8 ostrich chicks were employed in each of th...

PURPOSE This study was designed to explore the role of IQGAP1 in the invasiveness of thyroid cancer and its potential as a novel prognostic marker and therapeutic target in this cancer. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN We examined IQGAP1 copy gain and its relationship with clinicopathologic outcomes of thyroid cancer and investigated its role in cell invasion and molecules involved in the process. RESUL...

was given to rats for 4 days, and the hepatic activity of testosterone metabolism was detennined together with monitoring body weight gain and liver weight as the indices of toxicity. The results showed that while cocaine and nicotine have a minor ability to increase t stosterone 16i? -hydroxylase activity, a marker activity for the CYP2B 1 and 2, a]1 other compounds did not have any such eilec...

A hallmark of smooth muscle cell (SMC) phenotypic switching is suppression of SMC marker gene expression. Although myocardin has been shown to be a key regulator of this process, the role of its related factors, MKL1 and MKL2, in SMC phenotypic switching remains unknown. The present studies were aimed at determining if: 1) MKL factors contribute to the expression of SMC marker genes in cultured...

in order to map the genomic regions affecting barley drought tolerance indices, an experiment was conducted at the agricultural and natural resource station of sistan. seventy tow double haploid lines of barley with their parents (steptoe and morex) were examined using two 9×9 simple lattice (stress and non-stress), with two replications. each plot consisted of six rows that were 3m in length a...

despite the importance of forage quality to animal performance, the quality of barley as a feed and forage crop has not been taken into consideration as a selection criterion in its breeding programs. in order to map the genomic regions affecting barley forage quality, two experiments were conducted while employing 72 doubled haploid lines and their two parents (‘steptoe’ and ‘morex’), at the r...

prophet of pou1f1 (prop1) plays direct or indirect important roles in the morphogenesis of pituitary gonadotropes as well as lactotropes, somatotropes and caudomedial thyrotropes. it also controls the expression of growth hormone, prolactin and thyrotropin subunits through regulatory pit1 factor. these hormones have important influences on production traits in most animal species including the ...