Background:  The aim of the study was to compare the radioprotective efficacy in the kidney of L-carnitine to that of amifostine. Materials and Methods: Thirty three-month-old Wistar albino rats were randomly assigned to four groups: Group 1 (Control); Group 2 (Irradiation alone); Group 3 (amifostine plus irradiation); and Group 4 (L-carnitine before irradiation). The rats in Groups 2, 3, ...

  Background: A radioprotective effect of amifostine as well as its ability to modulate the level of spontaneous and gamma-irradiation-induced genetic changes on human peripheral blood lymphocytes has been investigated . Amifostine, known as a potent radical scavenger, has been introduced as the most effective radioprotector, yet it is not completely approved for the clinical use. However, furt...

Introduction: Nowadays, the main focus of dental studies is on adhesive dental materials; since clinical long-term success of bonded restorations depended more on marginal microleakage minimization. So, the aim of this study was Evaluation of Diode laser irradiation effect on microleakage in class V composite restoration before and after adhesive application. Materials and methods: In this in v...

Free-living diazotrophs are diverse and ubiquitous in soil, contributing the nitrogen pool in natural ecosystems. The isolation of nitrogen-fixing microorganisms has relied on semisolid nitrogen-free medium enrichment, followed by multiple subculturing steps. These procedures limit the diversity of recovered isolates. In the current study, we investigated three different isolation strategies fo...

The present study was carried out to evaluate the radioprotective role of lycopene on chromosomal aberrations (CAs) induced by gamma (gamma) radiation in human lymphocytes. For this purpose, we used in vitro dose-effect relationship, and correlate these data with statistical parameters. CAs were evaluated in terms of chromosome break, dicentric, tricentric, acentric, fragment and ring. Mitotic ...

UV-induced mutation frequency and cell survivability was examined in Escherichia coli K12 strains. The effects of UV (254nm) induced damage on deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) was investigated using two protocols termed Direct-Plate Irradiation (DPI) and Liquid-Plate Irradiation (LPI). A biological system needed to be designed to facilitate future experiments involving UV and gene mutation frequenci...

Salmonella chromogenic medium (SCM; Oxoid, Basingstoke, United Kingdom), a new selective chromogenic medium, was compared to DCLS agar (Oxoid) for the detection and presumptive identification of Salmonella species from stool samples. This medium contains two chromogenic substrates, Magenta-cap (5-bromo-6-chloro-3-indolylcaprylate), which is hydrolyzed by Salmonella species to give magenta colon...

Lithium dendrite-free deposition is crucial to stabilizing lithium batteries, where the three-dimensional (3D) metal oxide nanoarrays demonstrate an impressive capability suppress dendrite due spatial effect. Herein, we introduce a new insight into ameliorated plating process on 3D nanoarrays. As paradigm, novel Cu2O and Cu nanorod arrays were in situ designed copper foil. We find that electrol...

Nickel-based magnetic activated carbon was synthesized from coconut shell activated carbon by electroless plating with palladium-free activation. The effect of plating solution volume on metallic ratio and adsorption capacity were evaluated. The effect of metallic ratio on specific area, pore volume, and magnetic properties were investigated. The morphologies of activated carbon before and afte...

background: magnetic resonance imaging (mri) is a safe modality and useful in characterizing normal and abnormal bone marrow (bm). mri also presents a more global view of bm than biopsy therefore, it may provide a better understanding of hematologic disorders. the purpose of this study was to monitor radiation-induced alterations of bm in acute phase of irradiation (1-10 day after total body ir...