The human microbiome has a fundamental role in skin homeostasis, barrier function and host immune networks. Acute chronic conditions are often associated with imbalances host-microbiome-immune interactions. Despite recent advances research, there limited models for studying these interactions healthy diseased skin, therefore we have developed model to investigate how different profiles alter ep...

consists of 85 species, occurring mainly in Iran and westward to Syria, Turkey and Europe. It is represented in Pakistan by 8 species. Onosma hispida WALL. is a perennial herb up to 70 cm tall with a prominent taproot, it is widely distributed in the northern areas of Pakistan. The plant has cooling, laxative, anthalminitic and alexipharmic effects, and is also used to treat diseases of the eye...

Aiming to investigate the possibility of electromagnetic fields (EMF) developed by nonionizing radiation to be a noxious agent capable of inducing genotoxicity to humans, in the current study we have investigated the effect of 910-MHz EMF in rat bone marrow. Rats were exposed daily for 2 h over a period of 30 consecutive days. Studying bone marrow smears from EMF-exposed and sham-exposed animal...

Vol. 28, No. 3, 2016 383 Received December 26, 2014, Revised May 13, 2015, Accepted for publication May 27, 2015 Corresponding author: Hai-Jin Park, Department of Dermatology, Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital, 170 Juhwa-ro, Ilsanseo-gu, Goyang 10380, Korea. Tel: 82-31-910-7224, Fax: 82-31-910-7227, E-mail: stratum@ paik.ac.kr This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the ...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the meaning of laparoscopic splenomegaly and its relationship with the severity and evolution of liver cirrhosis. Medical records of 2,525 consecutive patients with chronic liver diseases who underwent laparoscopy and video-guided hepatic biopsy were reviewed. There were 1,610 (63.8%) men and 915 (36.2%) women. All patients underwent gastroscopy to diagnose...

AIMS/BACKGROUND In the course of adjustable strabismus surgery there is only a limited period after surgery before the formation of firm adhesions prevents successful adjustment. To determine if this period could be increased by the interposition of suitable physical barriers, the use of Interceed and polyglactin 910 mesh was investigated in an animal model. METHODS A total of 39 rabbit eyes ...

The authors evaluated the biocompatibility of three suture materials, polyglecaprone 25, polyglactin 910 and polytetrafluorethylene, implanted into subcutaneous tissue in the dorsal region of 20 Wistar albinus rats. After periods of 2, 7, 14 and 21 days, the rats were sacrificed and the specimens were processed for routine histotechnical analysis and stained with hematoxylin and eosin. The rate...

Screening of a yeast two-hybrid library for proteins that interact with the kinase domain of an S-locus receptor kinase (SRK) resulted in the isolation of a plant protein called ARC1 (Arm Repeat Containing). This interaction was mediated by the C-terminal region of ARC1 in which five arm repeat units were identified. Using the yeast two-hybrid system and in vitro binding assays, ARC1 was found ...

The transcription of the single ribosomal RNA gene cluster is initiated at an assemblage of promoters five of which were previously mapped in the 910 base pair region in front of the 16S rRNA gene. The nucleotide sequence between positions -1680 and -910 was determined and S1 nuclease mapping revealed therein two sites corresponding to the 5' ends of the primary transcripts. These two presumabl...