objective: in all protocols for isolation of mesenchymal stem cells (mscs), a few days after culture initiation, the medium were discarded along with its contents of non-adherent cells and the adherent cell population kept and expanded as mscs population. in the present study, attempt was made to expand the cells suspended in removed medium of primary culture and compare them with the adherent ...

Industry revenue for online games is surging. A unique phenomenon in this market is the significant volume of trade among game users, who exchange real money for virtual goods that do not exist in the real world. The market of virtual goods has two distinctive characteristics: 1) the resold virtual items normally involve no quality loss since the attributes are digitally defined, and 2) the gam...

We study the problem of allocating a set of indivisible items to players having additive utility functions over the items. We consider allocations in which no player envies the bundle of items allocated to the other players too much. We present a simple proof that deterministic truthful allocations do not minimize envy by characterizing the truthful mechanisms for two players and two items. Als...

In this account of the history of voting-power measurement, we confine ourselves to the concept of a priori voting power. We show how the concept was re-invented several times and how the circumstances in which it was reinvented led to conceptual confusion as to the true meaning of what is being measured. In particular, power-as-influence was conflated with value in the sense of transferable ut...

Challenges to the adherence to combination antiretroviral therapy among the pediatric population should be understood in the context of the trajectories of families, their interaction with healthcare services, and their access to material and symbolic goods. The present study analyzed individual, institutional and social factors that might be associated with the caregivers' role in the treatmen...

neurite outgrowth from dorsal root ganglion (drg) explants is a method of evaluating neurotrophic activity of growth factors. when complete medium containing collagen was supplemented with nerve growth factor (ngf) drg outgrowth was observed after 18 h. in the absence of ngf and in the presence of collagen, the drg outgrowth took place after 72 h. in wells not supplemented with collagen gel in ...

introduction: while human endothelial progenitor cells (epcs) have been a subject of somehow extensive investigation, epcs from adult mouse hematopoietic system were poorly studied. present investigation is focused on fvb mouse endothelial progenitor cells in terms of their isolation, purification, and expansion. materials and methods: mononuclear cells collected from murine peripheral blood we...