Background: Species identification in commercially processed food and feed products is one of the important issues. This study was conducted to develop a genetic method for the detection of pig and cattle species in processed food and feed products using newly designed species-specific primers targeting mitochondrial 12S rRNA gene fragments. Methods: Two sets of specific primers were designed ...

Background In vitro maturation (IVM) of human oocytes has acquired increasing attention in infertility treatment with great promise. This technique is an alternative conventional in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer (IVF-ET), and can be reduced the side effects of gonadotropin stimulation such as ovarian hyperstimulation (OHSS). Oocyte maturation is a complex process including cytoplasmic and...

mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalo-myopathy (mngie) is a rare autosomal recessive disease caused by thymidine phosphorylase (tp) gene mutation. here we report a patient with mngie in whom sensorimotor polyneuropathy was the first presenting symptom and had a fluctuating course. this 26-year-old female patient developed acute-onset demyelinating polyneuropathy from the age of 6 with t...

skin aging is a continuous process that exhibits fine and deep wrinkles, thin and transparent skin, loss of underlying fat, dry skin and itch, following decreased collagen and elastin  synthesis. both extrinsic and intrinsic agents are considered in the pathogenesis on skin aging. extrinsic factors such as sun exposure, windy and dry weather, nutrition, and lifestyle may induce premature aging,...

Conspecificity of the morphologically-similar, sympatric nudibranch species Dendrodoris gunnamatta (Allen, 1932) and krusensternii (Gray, 1850) was tested using sequences mitochondrial COI gene. Data analysis supports presence phenotypic polymorphy in D. where specimens from large estuaries embayments central New South Wales, Australia either lack or have highly reduced sky-blue ocellae.

Abstract A new large (94–107mm SVL) species of gecko the genus Hemidactylus is described from drier parts Western Ghats India. The closely related to H. graniticolus , which it can be distinguished based on dorsal pholidosis at mid-body, structure tubercles dorsum, tail. also 6.6–7.2% divergent in ND2 mitochondrial gene.

Mitochondrial dysfunction has been implicated in the dopaminergic neurodegeneration, which characterizes Parkinson’s disease (PD). The activities of mitochondrial complexes I and IV were found to be reduced in the brains of PD patients (n = 4) as compared to age-matched controls (n = 4). This is tested in SH-SY5Y cell lines, transformed Rho0 cells, and in normal and PD cybrid cell lines. Cybrid...