Kidney and liver are the major organs of erythropoietin (Epo) synthesis. However, Epo messenger RNA (mRNA) has been detected in several organs, such as brain, lung, and testis. Furthermore, functional Epo receptors have been demonstrated on different cell types, including rat Leydig cells. The aim of the study was to identify testicular cells expressing Epo mRNA and to quantitate its levels by ...

Myopericytoma (MP) is a benign tumor composed of cells that show apparent differentiation towards putative perivascular myoid cells called myopericytes. It arises most commonly in the dermis or subcutaneous tissue of the extremities in adults. The most common presentation is a well-circumscribed, slow-growing painless firm mass. A 45-year-old woman presented with a 2-year history of a painless,...

Conjecture 1.1. Fix an integer g. Let B be a g-dimensional CM principally polarized abelian variety, and let x be the corresponding point in Ag,1(Q). Finally, let Z(End(B)) denote the center of the endomorphism ring of B. Then there exists a constant δg > 0 so that |Gal(Q/Q) · x| g Disc(Z(End(B)))g . Edixhoven established the desired lower bound for Hilbert modular surfaces in [3]. Recently, Pi...

Breast hamartomas (BH) account for 3.9-4.8% of all breast tumors. The myoid or the muscular variant, Myoid Breast Hamartoma (MBH) is exceptionally rare with less than 30 reported cases in the English medical literature. This paper reports a case of MBH in 53year old female who presented with 6-year-old left breast lump which has been gradually increasing in size. Clinically, the mass was sugges...

We expose a theorem of Pila and Wilkie on counting rational points in sets definable in o-minimal structures and some applications of this theorem to problems in diophantine geometry due to Masser, Peterzil, Pila, Starchenko, and Zannier.

This work stems from an ongoing investigation into the distribution of rational points lying on particular sets in R. This is a question within transcendental number theory, but it appears that the model theory of o-minimal structures is a very suitable context in which to consider it. The origins of this current research lie in work of Bombieri and Pila ([1]), which established various estimat...

In male hypogonadic mutant rat (hgn/hgn), gonocytes degenerate and peritubular cells form multiple layers around seminiferous tubules during early postnatal testicular development. Alkaline phosphatase (AP) activity has been used as not only a tracer for the primordial germ cells (PGCs) but also a histochemical marker for the peritubular myoid cells. In the present study, we examined the locali...