The tea plant is a kind of ammonium-preferring crop, but the mechanism whereby ammonium (NH ) regulate its growth is not well understood. The current study focused on the effects of NH on tea plants. Transcriptomic analysis was performed to investigate the early- and late-stage NH deprivation and resupply in tea plants shoots.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To compare therapeutic effects between antegrade intramedullary nailing and retrograde intramedullary nailing for the treatment of humeral shaft fractures.
Methods: From March 1999 to October 2006, 105 patients with humeral shaft fractures were treated with locked intramedullary nail and were adequately followed up. There were 82 antegrade nailing and 23 retrograde nailing.
Objective: To investigate the effects of antibiotic-PMMA (polymethyl-methacrylate) beads combined with external fixator in treatment of infected fracture nonunion.
Methods: Twenty-two cases of infected fracture-nonunions were reviewed involving 20 male and 2 female with an average age of 34.68 years (ranging 21 to 74 years).