INTRODUCTION: The designer drug methylenedioxypyrovalerone is a frequently used psychoactive drug of abuse. AIM: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of methylenedioxypyrovalerone, administrated from the 8th ...

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a substantial burden to patients, families, and society, but many patients cannot be treated adequately. Rodent experiments suggest that the neuropeptide galanin (GAL) and its three ...

Introduction: Caveolae are flask shaped with 50-100 nm size, non-clathrin associated invaginations of the plasmam-embrane. The main membrane protein of the structures is caveolin-1. Caveolae play an important role in ...

Background We compared the aortic, left atrial, and apical approaches to visualize the mitral valve with the goal to investigate the endoscopic anatomy and give exact step-by-step descriptions of these views. Materials and ...

Abstract Cyclophilin D (cypD) modulates the properties of the permeability transition pore, a phenomenon implicated in the manifestation of many diseases including aging. Here, we examined the effects of partial or complete ...

The effect of black radish root (Raphanus sativus L. var niger) was studied on the structure and redox state of the colon mucosa in fat-rich diet fed rats. The epithelial lining disrupted, the number of enterocytes and the ...

BACKGROUND: In the present study we intended to examine the possible localization and role of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor type 2 (VEGFR2) in the regulation of gingival venules in a rat model of experimental ...