Von Willebrand factor and platelet membrane glycoprotein Ib receptors interact to mediate platelet adhesion and thrombogenesis in stenosed and endothelium-injured arteries. We wished to determine whether blocking glycoprotein Ib receptors with a recombinant von Willibrand factor binding domain (VCL) increases the time required for thrombus formation after injury to the coronary arteries. We als...

Background: The varicocele (VCL) impacts the testicular tissue both by enhancing tissue inflammation and by down-regulating the antioxidant status. On the other hand, in varicocele patient the critical role of Hsp70 in spermiogenesis is identified. Therefore present study was estimated to evaluate the protective effect of testosterone and vitamin E on VCL-decreased Hsp70 expression and on VCL-i...

Short-term storage trials were conducted with semen of Atlantic sturgeon Acipenser oxyrinchus collected from a total of nine wild males during the 2008 and 2009 spawning seasons on the Hudson River. Semen samples were kept refrigerated (4 ± 1◦C) and stored in different gaseous atmospheres and storage extenders. The gaseous environments included oxygen, nitrogen, and air, while the extender trea...

Interest in the preservation of endangered breeds such as the Blanca Andaluza goat, has increased and some steps should be therefore taken to ensure it. The study was designed to determine the seasonal reproductive pattern of Blanca Andaluza bucks, and whether this affects the quality of their semen and its freezability over the year. Seven bucks were used and their body weight, testicular weig...

The present study was conducted to compare sperm motion characteristics of adult Malpura and Bharat Merino rams by the computer-aided sperm analysis (CASA) technique. Malpura is a hardy native sheep breed of the semi-arid tropical environment and Bharat Merino is a crossbred evolved in the same environment by crossing native sheep with exotic rams. Semen was collected from 8 donor rams of each ...

Treatment with taxanes for castration-resistant prostate cancer often leads to the development of resistance. It has been recently demonstrated that exosomes present in the body fluids contain proteins and RNAs in the cells from which they are derived and could serve as a diagnostic marker for various diseases. In the present study, we aimed to identify proteins contained in exosomes that could...

Little is known about the time scales in which sensitivity to novel category identity may become evident in visual and executive cortices in visual category learning (VCL) tasks and the nature of such changes in brain activation. We used fMRI to investigate the processing of category information and trial-by-trial feedback information. In each VCL task, stimuli differed in three feature dimensi...

In this paper, virtual cell layout (VCL) based dynamic source routing (VB-DSR) technique is introduced for the mobile subsystem of the next generation tactical communications systems. VB-DSR uses dynamic source routing (DSR) protocol over VCL structure, which is a resource management and clustering technique for tactical communications. The application of the third generation personal communica...