Volume 23 No. 5 September – October, 2018

ROMANIAN BIOTECHNOLOGICAL LETTERS

– an international journal –

CONTENTS

Cover: The Bucharest University Building

1.	ALINA MIHAELA PRODAN, MIRCEA BEURAN, CLAUDIU STEFAN TURCULET, MARCELA POPA, ECATERINA ANDRONESCU, CORALIA BLEOTU, STEFANIA MARIANA RAITA, MARIAN SOARE, OLIVERA LUPESCU In vitro evaluation of glycerol coated iron oxide nanoparticles in solution	……………	13901
2.	TAYLAN AKSU, DEVRİM S. AKSU, DURMUŞ A. KAYA, NİZAMI DURAN, SÜLEYMAN E. ÖNEL, SİBEL CANOĞULLARI The Response of Japanese Quails to Dietary Thymbra spicata L. Essential Oil	……………	13909
3.	SILVIU IONUŢ BORŞ, IULIAN IBANESCU, ŞTEOFIL CREANGĂ, LUCIAN DASCĂLU, ALINA BORŞ Follicle deviation and oocyte recovering by ovum pick-up from endangered Romanian Grey cows	……………	13918
4.	CLAUDIU STEFAN TURCULET, ALINA MIHAELA PRODAN, IONUT NEGOI, GABRIEL TELEANU, MARCELA POPA, ECATERINA ANDRONESCU, MIRCEA BEURAN, GEORGE A. STANCIU, RADU HRISTU, MONICA LUMINITA BADEA, ALIN IOSIF, STEFANIA MARIANA RAITA, NICOLETA VINETICU, ROXANA TRUSCA, OLIVERA LUPESCU Preliminary evaluation of the antifungal activity of samarium doped hydroxyapatite thin films	……………	13927
5.	SORINA DINESCU, SIMONA IGNAT, TEODORA VERONICA SIMION, AIDA SELARU, IULIANA SAMOILA, DANA JIANU, MARIETA COSTACHE Multiple benefits of platelet-rich plasma for regenerative medicine therapies	……………	13933
6.	DENİZ ŞAHİN Determining the Trace Amounts of Zinc by Membrane Filtration-Sensitized Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrometry in Water Samples	……………	13940
7.	MINODORA MANU, DAN POLIZĂ, MARILENA ONETE Comparative analysis of the phoretic mites communities (Acari: Mesostigmata) associated with Ips typographusfrom natural and planted Norway spruce stands – Romania	……………	13946
8.	IRINA HOLOBIUC, RODICA CATANĂ, GINA COGĂLNICEANU, VICTORIA CRISTEA Biotechnological approach for ex situ conservation of the vulnerable species Moehringia jankae	……………	13954
9.	FATMA MATPAN BEKLER, SEÇİL YALAZ, KEMAL GÜVEN Molecular characterisation and numerical analysis of novel moderately thermophile Anoxybacillus sp. FMB1	……………	13964
10.	TATIANA DUMITRA PANAITE, RODICA DIANA CRISTE, MIHAELA SARACILA, CRISTINA TABUC, RALUCA PAULA TURCU, MARGARETA OLTEANU The use of ascorbic acid and Artemisia annua powder in diets for broilers reared under heat stress	……………	13976
11.	ANGHELUTA-SIMONA LUPSEA, JACQUES PORTOUKALIAN IRF2 Deficient Primary Macrophges Cells Acquire an Inflammatory Programme upon Activation of TLR9 Innate Receptor	……………	13986
12.	MOHSEN SAMIMI, SHAMIL VALIDOV Characteristics of pDNA-loaded chitosan/alginate-dextran sulfate nanoparticles with high transfection efficiency	……………	13996
13.	ZHIQIANG SONG, AIYUN LI Effects of modified motor skills on the recovery of walking function of patients with stroke	……………	14007
14.	AUGUSTINA PRUTEANU, CARMEN POPESCU, VALENTIN VLADUT, GEORGETA GAGEANU Biochemical analysis of some vegetal extracts obtained from indigenous spontaneous species of Thymus serpyllumL	……………	14013
15.	SIMONA OANCEA, FELICIA CĂLIN Phenolics content, in vitro antioxidant and anticholinesterase activities of combined berry extracts	……………	14025
16.	MUHAMMAD FAROOQ HUSSAIN MUNIS, SHICHENG XU, HAKIM, HASSAN JAVED CHAUDHARY, SAJID MASOOD, ABU BAKR UMER FAROOQ Diagnosis of Fusarium graminearum in Soil and Plant Samples of Wheat by Real-Time PCR	……………	14035
17.	WEN HUANG, FEI XU, WEI WANG, LI LI, HUAYONG QUE, GUOFAN ZHANG Reference gene selection for microRNA expression analysis in the Pacific oyster	……………	14043
18.	SE JONG HAN, JOUNG HAN YIM, PYUNG CHEON LEE, JONG-IL CHOI Effect of Temperature on the Yield, Activity, and Stability of a Cold-Active Protease from Pseudoalteromonasarctica PAMC 21717	……………	14051
19.	DAN NICOLAE PĂDURARU, BOUARIU ALEXANDRA, DANIEL ION, MIHAI CRISTIAN DUMITRASCU, CORNELIA NIȚIPIR, ANCA PANTEA STOIAN, RĂZVAN HAINĂROȘIE, ALEXANDRA BOLOCAN, CRISTINA ORLOV, DUMITRU CRISTINEL BADIU, CAMELIA DIACONU, SILVIU PITURU, OCTAVIAN ANDRONIC Latest news and trends in what concerns the risk factors of endometrial cancer	……………	14056
20.	CRISTINA TEODORA PREOTEASA, ELENA PREOTEASA, DANIELA MEGHEA, LUMINITA MARUTESCU, MARCELA POPA, GRATIELA G PIRCALABIORU Microbiological assay of soft acrylic and silicone-based materials used in overdentures on mini dental implants	……………	14067