Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors reduce the risk of recurrent myocardial infarction in patients with left ventricular dysfunction. Tissue factor (TF), the initiator of blood coagulation, plays a pivotal role in arterial thrombosis that occurs after atherosclerotic plaque fissuring. Because monocytes synthesize TF and contain several components of the renin-angiotensin system, we i...

OBJECTIVE The role of Rho activation in the regulation of tissue factor (TF) is not clear. This study was undertaken to investigate this in endothelial cells induced by monocyte adhesion. METHODS AND RESULTS Isolated human peripheral blood monocytes were added to cultured human coronary endothelial cells. Monocyte adhesion to endothelial cells increased the levels of TF antigen in the endothe...

Constructed wetlands are an affordable and reliable green alternative to conventional mechanical systems for treating domestic sewage. This study investigates the potential of 14 tropical wetland plant species removing heavy metals from sewage through bioconcentration factor (BCF), translocation (TF), enrichment (EF), geoaccumulation index (Igeo) using batch mesocosm studies. Plants with BCF &g...

heavy metals such as cadmium mainly enter in the environment and ecosystem as a result of human activities. this study was conducted in order to evaluate the ability of bacterial inoculants to enhance efficiency of phytoextraction in a calcareous soil. three plants (amaranthus retroflexus, helianthus annus and medicago sativa), along with three levels of inoculants and four levels of cd were ev...

in the present study, a field study was performed on some herbaceous plants growing in thesoutheast of ahvaz, where some metal producing industries are active. the aim of this studywas to investigate and compare manganese (mn) and zinc (zn) accumulation in seven dominantherbaceous plants in this area. plant samples were collected randomly. associated soils weresampled from the same sites next t...

Water pollution is one of the global challenges that society must address in 21st century aiming to improve water quality, reduce human pollutants and ecosystem health impacts. In phytotoxicity test, plant Iresine herbstii was exposed remove nickel from simulated wastewater using two different ratios (mass mass nickel) (,Rp/Ni) for 21 days with sub-surface batch system. During exposure period, ...

Protein kinase C (PKC) activity has a recognized role in mediating apoptosis. However, the role of individual PKC isoforms in apoptosis is poorly defined. Therefore, we investigated the translocation of individual PKC isoforms during radiation-induced apoptosis with and without rescue from apoptosis by granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) in the human erythroleukemia cell l...

In eubacteria, trigger factor (TF) is the first chaperone to interact with newly synthesized polypeptides and assist their folding as they emerge from the ribosome. We report the first characterization of a TF from a psychrophilic organism. TF from Psychrobacter frigidicola (TF(Pf)) was cloned, produced in Escherichia coli, and purified. Strikingly, cross-linking and fluorescence anisotropy ana...

Poplar 69 (Populus deltoides Bartr. cv. ‘Lux’ (I-69/55)) was chosen for a pot experiment to study the growth and extraction of Cd from soil various parts one-year-old trees growing in upright artificial leaning (45°) patterns under different stress. The results indicated considerable tolerance both poplar (UP) (LP) stress soil, though with significant inhibition application. LP demonstrated sig...

Decorative ornamental plants have been applied as hyperaccumulators/phytoremediators to a wide spectrum of heavy metal contaminants. In this study, pot culture experiments were conducted investigate the Sn tolerance and accumulation in Impatiens balsamina L., Mirabilis jalapa L. Tagetes erecta order assess possibility these three be used phytoremediators Sn-contaminated soil. Results show that ...