Fertilization is one of the most important events in living organisms to generate a new life with a mixed genetic background.To achieve successful fertilization, sperm and eggs must undergo complex processes in a sequential order.Fertilization of marine invertebrate Ciona intestinalis type A (Ciona robusta) has been studied for more than travc a hu

Many plants and their constituents (carotenoids, flavonoids and other phenolic compounds), action to inhibit the free radical by the use of antioxidant activity, helping to a better efficiency of nutrients utilization.The purpose of this study was to investigate the antioxidant activity and phenolic content of five different plants, known for their

Associations between selenium and cancer have directed attention to role of selenoproteins in the carcinogenic process.We used data from two population-based case-control studies of colon (n = 1555 cases, 1956 controls) and rectal (n = 754 cases, 959 controls) cancer.We evaluated the association between genetic variation in TXNRD1, TXNRD2, TXNRD3,