The adult eye of Drosophila is a highly ordered structure composed of about 800 ommatidia, each displaying precise polarity. The planar polarity is reflected in the mirror-symmetric arrangement of ommatidia relative to the dorso-ventral midline, the equator. This arrangement is generated when ommatidia rotate towards the equator and the photoreceptor R3 displaces R4 creating different chiral fo...

The sensory bristles of the fruit fly Drosophila are organized in a polarized fashion such that bristles on the thorax point posteriorly. These bristles are derived from asymmetric division of sensory organ precursors (SOPs). The Numb protein, which is localized asymmetrically in a cortical crescent in each SOP, segregates into only one of the two daughter cells during cell division, thereby co...

The silver crucian carp (Carassius auratus gibelio), a gynogenetic teleost, is a promising model for the study of evolutionary genetics in vertebrates. We identified ten gynogenetic clones (FZ-I~FZ-X) from triploid silver crucian carp, collected from Fangzheng County in Heilongjiang Province, China, using microsatellite markers. The genetic diversity of these gynogenetic clones was analyzed usi...

Due to its high thermal conductivity and favorable machinability, molybdenum–rhenium (Mo–Re) alloys have huge prospects in the field of high-temperature heat pipes. However, weldability Mo–Re has not yet been systematically investigated. Based on an orthogonal test, influence law single-mode fiber laser welding parameters weld profile mechanical properties joints was studied. Furthermore, exist...

Abstract In this paper, we introduce a new class of control functions, namely extended $\mathcal{FZ}$ FZ -simulation and employ it to define contractive condition. We also prove some fixed best proximity point results in the context an M -complete fuzzy metric space. The presented theorems unify, generalize, im...

The affinity of the psychotropic benzodiazepine drugs diazepam (DZ) and flurazepam (FZ) to phosphatidylserine (PS) was examined since PS is abundantly contained in brain membranes. The effect of PS content on the partition coefficients (K(p)s) of these drugs between phosphatidylcholine (PC)-PS bilayer membranes of small unilamellar vesicles (SUV) and water was measured using second derivative s...

The purpose of the present study was to examine the influence of heat-induced superaggregation of Amphotericin B (AmB) in the Fungizone (FZ) formulation on its interaction with human serum components and relate this to reduced toxicity. Whole serum distribution studies showed that a significantly lower percentage of AmB from HFZ was recovered in the high-density lipoprotein (HDL), low-density l...

Wnt signalling pathways play crucial roles in developmental biology, stem cell fate and tissue patterning and have become an attractive therapeutic target in the fields of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Wnt signalling has also been shown to play a role in human Mesenchymal Stem Cell (hMSC) fate, which have shown potential as a cell therapy in bone and cartilage tissue engineering...