Introduction: Hcnoch-Schonlein purpura is an IgA mediated small-vessel vasculitis and it is so common in children. The classic term of signs and symbols include polpuble purpura, arthralgia/arthritis, abdominal pain and also renal disease. The incidence of HSP in older age of the entire gastrointestinal tract (gastric, small intestine and large intestine) without arthritis­/­arthralgia and kidn...

A bovine rotavirus was adapted to serial propagation in Madin Darby bovine kidney (MDBK) cells. Virus of cell culture origin when examined by electron microscopy exhibited characteristic rotavirus morphology and had a typical RNA electropherotype on polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Mean IgG concentration in the first colostral whey was 62.80 +/- 6.56 mg/ml in cows and 104.40 +/- 31.12 mg/ml ...

Since the first isolation of measles virus in human and monkey renal cells by Enders and Peebles (1), the virus has been grown in primary cultures of human amnion (5, 6), chick en\.bryo (3), dog kidney (2), bovine kidney (4,8), and guinea pig kidney (9). Sorne of these tissues have now even been employed for the production of measles vaccine. This report presents our data indicating the high su...

Medicinal plants have been investigated for possible anti-cancer effects. The aim of the present study was to examine the cytotoxic activity of several medicinal plants on different tumor cell lines. 11 selected plant species which have been used in folkloric prescriptions were collected from different sites of Hamedan district of Iran. The methanolic extracts of the plants were prepared and th...

A high-passage rabbit kidney RK-13 cell line (HP-RK-13[KY], originally derived from the ATCC CCL-37 cell line) used in certain laboratories worldwide is contaminated with noncytopathic bovine viral diarrhea virus (ncpBVDV). On complete genome sequence analysis, the virus strain was found to belong to BVDV group 1b.

Transfected, nonsteroidogenic COS-1 cells derived from monkey kidney are found to be capable of supporting the initial and rate-limiting step common to all steroidogenic pathways, the side-chain cleavage of cholesterol to produce pregnenolone. Endogenous COS-1 kidney cell renodoxin reductase and renodoxin are able to sustain low levels of this activity catalyzed by bovine cholesterol side-chain...

Mollicutes are important cell culture contaminants which may eventually affect the results of biological assays or affect their interpretation. Acholeplasma laidlawii is one of the most frequent contaminants of cell cultures. Here, we report the complete genome sequence of A. laidlawii strain MDBK/IPV, recovered from Madin-Darby bovine kidney (MDBK) cells.

Hui Bin Sun,1,2 Razi Nalim,3 and Hiroki Yokota1,2,3 1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA 2Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA 3Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, India...

Medicinal plants have been investigated for possible anti-cancer effects. The aim of the present study was to examine the cytotoxic activity of several medicinal plants on different tumor cell lines. 11 selected plant species which have been used in folkloric prescriptions were collected from different sites of Hamedan district of Iran. The methanolic extracts of the plants were prepared and th...

An amiloride binding protein in adult rat and rabbit alveolar type II (ATII) cells was characterized using three different antibodies against epithelial Na+ channel proteins. We found that 1) polyclonal antibodies raised against epithelial Na+ channel proteins from bovine kidney cross-react with a 135-kDa protein in ATII membrane vesicles on Western blots; 2) using the photoreactive amiloride a...