background: natural products have gained importance recently for the treatment of obesity and its complications, partly because of the side effects of modern drugs.hence, we aimed to study and compare the effect of varying concentrations of momordicacharantiaon adipogenesis and adipolysis using 3t3-l1 pre-adipocyte cell lines. methods: 3t3-l1 pre-adipocytes were procured from the national cente...

BACKGROUND Oil Red O, a stain commonly used to demonstrate lipid in frozen tissue, also may be used to stain air-dried cytologic specimens. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to prospectively evaluate the value of Oil Red O in identifying lipid to aid in the differentiation of liposarcomas from other types of sarcoma. METHODS Twelve tumor specimens from dogs were evaluated. The tumors ...

SEVERAL OIL-SOLUBLE aniline dyes have been used to demonstrate lipoproteins on paper electrophoresis strips (1-4). Durrum et al. (5) found oil red 0 superior to others. Jencks and Durrum (6) described a technic for determining the amount of this dye taken up by alpha and beta sections of serum paper electrophoresis strips, showed that there were several components in commercial oil red 0, and p...

introduction: skeletal staining is an important part of anatomical studies which can evaluate macroscopic disorders in bones and cartilages development. the aim of the present article is to illustrate two distinct protocols by all details in order to stain skeletal system of the lab animals in all ages of their lives so it becomes easy for future studies in this field. methods: in this paper, s...

abstract purpose: skeletal staining is a way to study the effect of many chemical or herbal substances on development of bones and cartilages in order to record the level of probable deformity.this article aimed to present a modified protocol to make all skeletal studies on laboratory animals possible. materials and methods: the important notes about skeletal staining were fixing by ethanol and...

A staining procedure employing oil red O and Coomassie R-250 was developed to increase visualization of mycoplasma colonies. This procedure permits CFU determination of mycoplasmas without additional microscopy.

PURPOSE To analyze the autofluorescence (AF) properties of pinguecula using cobalt-blue and yellow filters and to investigate the nature and pathogenesis of pingueculae using histochemical and immunohistochemical staining. METHODS Fifty pingueculae in 40 patients were included in this study. AF of the pingueculae was observed and analyzed using a cobalt-blue filter with an additional yellow f...

Objective: DLBS3233 is a standardized extract combination containing Lagerstroemia speciosa and Cinnamomum burmannii. The effect of DLBS3233 on adipocyte differentiation was examined in this study. Methods: 3T3-L1 pre-adipocyte was used to investigate gene expression using the real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RTPCR) method. Oil red-O staining for detecting lipid format...