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  1. Adjuvant arthritis in rats, as rheumatoid arthritis in humans, may be of greater or lesser severity, namely polyarthritis and monoarthritis, respectively. The present study was planned to evaluate the oxidativ...

    Authors: Adelar Bracht, Sandra Silva Silveira, Cristiane Vizioli Castro-Ghizoni, Anacharis Babeto Sá-Nakanishi, Márcia Rosângela Neves Oliveira, Ciomar Aparecida Bersani-Amado, Rosane Marina Peralta and Jurandir Fernando Comar
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:36
  2. In the search for valid biomarkers in inflammatory diseases, cytokine serum concentrations are often measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and correlated to disease activity. Interleukin-33 is a relati...

    Authors: Uffe Nygaard, Christian Vestergaard, Claus Johansen, Mette Deleuran and Malene Hvid
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:33
  3. Recent investigations have highlighted that therapeutic artificial microRNAs could be promising candidates for cancer therapy through the modulation of tumor promoter or suppressor. MEK kinase 1 (MEKK1) is exp...

    Authors: Chun Liu, Shengjie Wang, Shunxing Zhu, Haifeng Wang, Jiayi Gu, Zeping Gui, Jin Jing, Xiaofan Hou and Yixiang Shao
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:11
  4. Unaffordability of commercial feeds to semi-intensive Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus farmers has led to reliance on supplemental feeding and fertilization for nutrition of their fish without a scientific bas...

    Authors: S. M. Limbu, A. P. Shoko, H. A. Lamtane, M. A. Kishe-Machumu, M. C. Joram, A. S. Mbonde, H. F. Mgana and Y. D. Mgaya
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:5
  5. Banana cultivars may experience chilling or freezing injury in some of their cultivated regions, where wild banana can still grow very well. The clarification of the cold-resistant mechanism of wild banana is ...

    Authors: Weihua Liu, Chunzhen Cheng, Gongti Lai, Yuling Lin and Zhongxiong Lai
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2015 4:829
  6. Pinus mugo Turra, is a native pine species in central and southern Europe, growing in high mountains area (altitudes 1.800–2.300 m.a.s.l.). In Kosovo, it is one of the native pines too, d...

    Authors: Avni Hajdari, Behxhet Mustafa, Gresa Ahmeti, Bledar Pulaj, Brigitte Lukas, Alban Ibraliu, Gjoshe Stefkov, Cassandra L. Quave and Johannes Novak
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2015 4:828
  7. The present study was designed to assess the antimicrobial activity of 19 natural products belonging to terpenoids, alkaloids, thiophenes and phenolics against a panel of 14 Gram-negative multidrug-resistant (...

    Authors: Armelle T. Mbaveng, Louis P. Sandjo, Simplice B. Tankeo, Ache R. Ndifor, Ambassa Pantaleon, Bonaventure T. Nagdjui and Victor Kuete
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2015 4:823
  8. There are very few studies for combinatorial library design and high throughput screening of 4-anilinoquinoline antimalarial compounds having activities against parasitic strain of P. falciparum. Therefore, an at...

    Authors: Neha Parihar and Sisir Nandi
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2015 4:819
  9. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have been shown in the pathogenesis of human neurological disorders. The study aims to identify the involvement of miRNAs in the pathophysiology of narcolepsy. Here, we conducted three indep...

    Authors: Zhenhua Liu, Liling Yang, Yingzi Zhao, Minglu Tang, Fumin Wang, Xiaoting Wang, Guanzhen Li and Yifeng Du
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2015 4:812
  10. The use of cannabinoid receptor agonists is gaining a strong interest both in human and veterinary medicine. The potential use of cannabimimetic compounds in companion animals was reviewed in 2007 for their ro...

    Authors: Andrea Pirone, Carla Lenzi, Alessandra Coli, Elisabetta Giannessi, Maria Rita Stornelli and Vincenzo Miragliotta
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2015 4:804
  11. Exercise is considered an important component of a healthy lifestyle but there remains controversy on effects of exercise on non-exercise physical activity (PA). The present study examined the prospective asso...

    Authors: Clemens Drenowatz, George L. Grieve and Madison M. DeMello
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2015 4:798
  12. Limb-salvage for primary malignant bone tumors in pediatric patients presents a unique challenge when resection includes an active physis. Early expandable prostheses required open surgical procedures to achie...

    Authors: Joseph Benevenia, Francis Patterson, Kathleen Beebe, Kimberly Tucker, Jeffrey Moore, Joseph Ippolito and Steven Rivero
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2015 4:793
  13. Proteins from the plant chromoplast are essential for many physiological processes such as fatty acid biosynthesis. Different protein extraction methods were tested to find the most robust method to obtain oi...

    Authors: Benjamin Yii Chung Lau, Santanu Deb-Choudhury, James D. Morton, Stefan Clerens, Jolon M. Dyer and Umi Salamah Ramli
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2015 4:791
  14. To determine whether an automated extraction of the brain-tissue region from CT images is useful for the histogram analysis of the brain-tissue region was studied. We used the CT images of 11 patients. We deve...

    Authors: Masatoshi Kondo, Koji Yamashita, Takashi Yoshiura, Akio Hiwatash, Takashi Shirasaka, Hisao Arimura, Yasuhiko Nakamura and Hiroshi Honda
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2015 4:788
  15. Insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-1 is implicated in learning and memory. Experimental studies have suggested that the IGF-1 system is beneficial in cognition, especially in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), by opposi...

    Authors: Jue Jiang, Zhifeng Chen, Bing Liang, Jia Yan, Ying Zhang and Hong Jiang
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2015 4:787
  16. Ionomics is the study of elemental accumulation in living organisms using high-throughput elemental profiling. In the present study, we examined the ionomic responses to nutrient deficiency in maize grown in t...

    Authors: Toshihiro Watanabe, Masaru Urayama, Takuro Shinano, Ryosuke Okada and Mitsuru Osaki
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2015 4:781
  17. Ultrasound medical (US) imaging non-invasively pictures inside of a human body for disease diagnostics. Speckle noise attacks ultrasound images degrading their visual quality. A twofold processing algorithm is...

    Authors: P. V. V. Kishore, K. V. V. Kumar, D. Anil kumar, M. V. D. Prasad, E. N. D. Goutham, R. Rahul, C. B. S. Vamsi Krishna and Y. Sandeep
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2015 4:775
  18. The founder stock of a captive breeding program is prone to changes in genetic structure due to inbreeding and genetic drift. Genetic characterization of the founder population using suitable molecular markers...

    Authors: Ashraf Ullah, Abhisak Basak, Md. Nazrul Islam and Md. Samsul Alam
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2015 4:774
  19. This study focused on the characterization of mannanase from Bacillus circulans NT 6.7 for mannooligosaccharides (MOS) production. The enzyme from B. circulans NT 6.7 was produced using defatted copra meal as a c...

    Authors: Phanwipa Pangsri, Yotthachai Piwpankaew, Arunee Ingkakul, Sunee Nitisinprasert and Suttipun Keawsompong
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2015 4:771
  20. Vaccines based on the strain Sofjin of the Far-Eastern tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) subtype have been used for TBE prophylaxis for over 50 years in Russia and neighboring countries. On the wide territo...

    Authors: M. F. Vorovitch, L. I. Kozlovskaya, L. Iu. Romanova, L. L. Chernokhaeva, A. A. Ishmukhametov and G. G. Karganova
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2015 4:761
  21. Since late 2013, outbreaks of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) have reemerged in Japan. In the present study, we observed a high detection rate of PEDV, with 72.5 % (148/204) of diarrhea samples (sucklin...

    Authors: Nguyen Van Diep, Junzo Norimine, Masuo Sueyoshi, Nguyen Thi Lan, Takuya Hirai and Ryoji Yamaguchi
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2015 4:756
  22. We performed annealing control primer (ACP)-based differential-display reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (DDRT-PCR) to isolate differentially expressed genes (DEGs) from the stage IV ovary and ov...

    Authors: X. C. Qu, J. Y. Jiang, C. Cheng, L. Feng and Q. G. Liu
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2015 4:745
  23. A range of balance between flexor and extensor muscles is fundamental in order to prevent pathologies caused by bad postures or to ensure health of the joint as a measure of prevention of overtraining in speci...

    Authors: Ewan Thomas, Antonino Bianco, Marianna Bellafiore, Giuseppe Battaglia, Antonio Paoli and Antonio Palma
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2015 4:734
  24. To ascertain the prevalence of diabetes mellitus from history and biochemical estimation so as to attest the WHO Rule of halves in a lean population. A population based national survey on diabetes mellitus wa...

    Authors: Jacob Mufunda, Yohannes Ghebrat, Abdulmumini Usman, Goitom Mebrahtu and Asmera Gebreslassie
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2015 4:723
  25. The large family of annexins is composed of more than a thousand members which are typically phospholipid-binding proteins. Annexins act in a number of signalling networks and membrane trafficking events which...

    Authors: Kamand Khalaj, Elahe Aminollahi, Ali Bordbar and Vahid Khalaj
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2015 4:721
  26. This study investigated the effects of the supplementation with allspice (0, 5, 10, 15, or 20 g kg−1) on the haemato-immunological and biochemical variables in tilapia, Oreochromis mossambicus under acidic stress...

    Authors: Sevdan Yılmaz, Ümit Acar, Osman Sabri Kesbiç, Nejdet Gültepe and Sebahattin Ergün
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2015 4:719
  27. Breast cancer risk increases transiently in the period following pregnancy; pregnancy-associated breast cancers (PABC) are more aggressive than cases diagnosed in nulliparous women. We have previously reported...

    Authors: Szilard Asztalos, Thao N. Pham, Peter H. Gann, Meghan K. Hayes, Ryan Deaton, Elizabeth L. Wiley, Rajyasree Emmadi, Andre Kajdacsy-Balla, Nilanjana Banerji, William McDonald, Seema A. Khan and Debra A. Tonetti
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2015 4:710
  28. Mutolide an anti-inflammatory compound was isolated from the coprophilous fungus Lepidosphaeria sp. (PM0651419). The compound mitigated LPS-induced secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines TNF-α and IL-6 from THP...

    Authors: Meet Shah, Sunil Kumar Deshmukh, Shilpa A. Verekar, Akash Gohil, Abhijeet S. Kate, V. Rekha and Asha Kulkarni-Almeida
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2015 4:706
  29. Middle Ear infection is a common problem for both children and adults particularly in resource limited countries. Nevertheless, in Ethiopia and particularly in the study area, there is scarcity of recent data ...

    Authors: Araya Gebereyesus Wasihun and Yilikal Zemene
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2015 4:701
  30. Objectives of this study were: (a) to compare live weight (LW) and zoometric measures (ZM) of local goats in two locations, (b) to fit the best regression equation for goat LW prediction using ZM. LW, body len...

    Authors: E. J. Dorantes-Coronado, Glafiro Torres-Hernández, O. Hernández-Mendo and R. Rojo-Rubio
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2015 4:695
  31. Purpose of the study was to examine relationship between distribution of healthy fitness zone standards of high school students and their type of housing or area of residence. Study sample consisted of 684 stu...

    Authors: Viera Bebcakova, Bibiana Vadasova, Peter Kacur, Jan Junger, Iveta Borzikova, Martin Zvonar and Marta Gimunova
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2015 4:691
  32. Acquired or de novo resistance to the selective estrogen receptor modulators tamoxifen and fulvestrant (ICI) is a major barrier to successful treatment of breast cancer. Gene expression patterns in tamoxifen r...

    Authors: William Walter, Jennifer Thomalla, Josh Bruhn, Dedra H. Fagan, Cheryl Zehowski, Douglas Yee and Andrew Skildum
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2015 4:689
  33. The aim of this study was to improve detection of Mycoplasma pneumoniae and Chlamydia pneumoniae in clinical specimens by developing a multiplex real-time PCR assay that includes identification of macrolide-resi...

    Authors: Maaret Nummi, Laura Mannonen and Mirja Puolakkainen
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2015 4:684
  34. Pawpaw, banana and watermelon are tropical fruits with short shelf-lives under the prevailing temperatures and humid conditions in tropical countries like Nigeria. Production of wine from these fruits could he...

    Authors: Alloysius Chibuike Ogodo, Ositadinma Chinyere Ugbogu, Amadike Eziuche Ugbogu and Chukwuma Stephen Ezeonu
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2015 4:683
  35. In the present investigation, impact of sub lethal concentrations of entomopathogenic fungi, namely Isaria fumosorosea, Beauveria bassiana and Paecilomyces variotii, secondary metabolite on feeding, growth, fecun...

    Authors: P. Vinayaga Moorthi, C. Balasubramanian, S. Selvarani and A. Radha
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2015 4:681
  36. For athletes using running-specific prostheses (RSPs), current Paralympic guidelines for track events are generally based on level of amputation, not side of amputation. Although 200- and 400-m sprint races ar...

    Authors: Hiroaki Hobara, Wolfgang Potthast, Yoko Sano, Ralf Müller, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Thijs A. Heldoorn and Masaaki Mochimaru
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2015 4:670
  37. Many studies have been performed on exploring the effects of radio-frequency (RF) energy on biological function in vivo. In particular, gene expression results have been inconclusive due, in part, to a lack of...

    Authors: Jared W. Hansen, Sajid Asif, Lauren Singelmann, Muhammad Saeed Khan, Sumit Ghosh, Tom Gustad, Curt Doetkott, Benjamin D. Braaten and Daniel L. Ewert
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2015 4:669