Volume 24

No. 1

January – February, 2019

ROMANIAN BIOTECHNOLOGICAL LETTERS

– an international journal –

CONTENTS (pdf)

Cover: The Bucharest University Building

1.	SIMONA OANCEA, LIDIA MILA, OTTO KETNEY Content of Phenolics, in vitro Antioxidant Activity and Cytoprotective Effects against Induced Haemolysis of Red Cabbage Extracts	……………	1
2.	CRISTINA TEODORA PREOTEASA, ELENA PREOTEASA1, MARCELA POPA, GRATIELA (PIRCALABIORU) GRADISTEANU, RALUCA GRIGORE, LUMINITA MARUTESCU In vitro characterization of microbial biofilm on soft materials used in overdentures retained by mini implants	……………	10
3.	OANA LIVADARIU, ANCA DANIELA RAICIU, LAVINIA-DIANA-NICOLETA BARBU Preliminary research on getting callus in Ginkgo biloba L.	……………	20
4.	AYSEL ELİK, DERYA KOÇAK YANIK, FAHRETTİN GÖĞÜŞ Optimization of microwave-assisted extraction of phenolics from blueber	……………	30
5.	IONUT SORESCU, MIHAELA DUMITRU, GEORGETA CIURESCU Lactobacillus spp. and Enterococcus faecium strains isolation, identification, preservation and quantitative determinations from turkey gut content	……………	41
6.	JOVANA GRAHOVAC, JELENA DODIĆ, ZORANA RONČEVIĆ1, SINIŠA DODIĆ, DAMJAN VUČUROVIĆ Distillate composition of fermented media based on by-products of sugar beet processing	……………	50
7.	CEZAR BICHESCU, SILVIUS STANCIU The influence of oenological tannins on the fermentation and color stability of a Romanian red wine	……………	57
8.	CRISTIAN RAŢIU, ADINA BIANCA BOȘCA, ARANKA ILEA, FLAVIA RUXANDA, VIOREL MICLĂUŞ Osteoclast recruitment and polymorphism during the healing process in dental implant surgery	……………	66
9.	ROXANA STROE, CRISTINA MAMBET, ANTOANELA CURICI, FLORENTINA IVAN, LIDIA ALEXA, CLAUDIU MORJAN, VERONICA LAZAR, CORALIA BLEOTU The prevalence of hrHPV in a significant cohort of Romanian women	……………	75
10.	CODRUTA SILEA, IRINA-ALINA CUCU, OTILIA ZARNESCU, ANCA PANTEA STOIAN, ION G. MOTOFEI, OVIDIU GABRIEL BRATU, GRATIELA GRADISTEANU PIRCALABIORU, MARIANA-CARMEN CHIFIRIUC Influence of age on sperm parameters in men with suspected infertility	……………	82
11.	MIRUNA MIHAELA MICHEU, NICOLETA M. POPA-FOTEA, NICOLETA OPRESCU, MARIA DOROBANTU, ATTILA CRISTIAN RATIU, ALEXANDRU AL. ECOVOIU NGS data validated by Sanger sequencing reveal a puzzling small deletion of MYBPC3 gene associated with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy	……………	91
12.	RAZVAN DANAU, DUMITRU CRISTINEL BADIU, PAUL IORDACHE, RADU URSU, VIORICA RADOI, STEFAN RASCU, GEORGE DANIEL RADAVOI, CRISTIAN SORIN SIMA, CRISTIAN TOMA, BOGDAN BRATICEVICI, MIHAELA MANDU, TITUS VALENTIN GRIGOREAN, VIOREL JINGA Genetic Risk Score for Prostate Cancer in the Romanian Population	……………	100
13.	GEORGIANA DOLETE, BIANCA MARIA TIHĂUAN, CRINA MARIA KAMERZAN, OANA TUTUNARU, IOANA-CRISTINA MOCANU, CRISTINA BALAŞ, IOANA LAVINIA ARDELEAN, STELIAN SERGIU MAIER Development and sequential analysis of a collagen-chitosan wound management biomaterial	……………	108
14.	GEORGIANA GABRIELA PETRICA-MATEI, VIVIANA ROMAN, MIRELA MIHAILA, CAMELIA MIA HOTNOG, LORELEI IRINA BRASOVEANU, MARINELA BOSTAN Role of p38-mitogen-activated protein kinase in modulation of the response to therapy in FaDu Human pharyngeal carcinoma cell	……………	118
15.	CAMELIA SAND SAVA, MARIA-MIHAELA ANTOFIE Bioprospecting Wild Biodiversity in Romania: Case Study – Gentiana lutea	……………	129
16.	CORNELIA NITIPIR, MARIA ALEXANDRA BARBU, CRISTINA ORLOV, ADINA ELENA STANCIU, ANA MARIA POPA, RAZVAN HAINAROSIE, SILVIU PITURU, ANDREEA LETITIA ARSENE, ANCA PANTEA STOIAN Type II Diabetes Mellitus – Associated Risk Factor in the Onset and Evolution of Digestive Tract Carcinoma	……………	140
17.	EMAN ZAKARIA GOMAA Biosequestration of heavy metals by microbially induced calcite precipitation of ureolytic bacteria	……………	147
18.	CRISTIAN FELIX BLIDAR, IULIA FLORINA POP1, BRIGITTA FENESI In vitro Allelopathy at Sequoia sempervirens (D. Don) Endl. and Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni	……………	154
19.	ALEXANDRU FILIPPI, NICOLETA MĂRU, MARIANA CARMEN CHIFIRIUC, RALUCA GRIGORE, CONSTANȚA GANEA, MARIA-MAGDALENA MOCANU Anticancer effects of curcumin in luminal B and HER2 breast cancer cell line models	……………	168
20.	IVAYLO SIRAKOV, KATYA VELICHKOVA, NIKOLINA RUSENOVA, TONCHO DINEV In vitro test of inhibition effect of extracts from three seaweed species distributed at Black sea on different pathogens potentially dangerous for aquaponics	……………	176
21.	VASILE STOLERU, NECULAI MUNTEANU, TEODOR STAN, COSTEL IPĂTIOAIE, ALEXANDRU COJOCARU, MONICA BUTNARIU Effects of production system on the content of organic acids in Bio rhubarb (Rheum rhabarbarum L.)	……………	184
22.	DANIELA MIHALACHE, NICOLETA VRÎNCEANU, RĂZVAN IONUȚ TEODORESCU, MIRCEA MIHALACHE, CRISTINA BACAU Evaluation of the effect of 15N-labeled fertilizers on maize plant	……………	193