The squid giant axon was placed in a shallow narrow trough and current was sent in at two electrodes in opposite sides of the trough and out at a third electrode several centimeters away. The potential difference across the membrane was measured between an inside fine capillary electrode with its tip in the axoplasm between the pair of polarizing electrodes, and an outside capillary electrode w...

BACKGROUND Giant cell fibroma (GCF) is a distinct type of fibroma with characteristic large, stellate mononuclear or multinucleated giant fibroblasts; the stroma of GCF is relatively unexplored. The Picrosirus red polarizing microscopy technique is used to characterize the collagen fibers. The aim of this study was to evaluate the staining properties of collagen fibers in GCF and to correlate i...

Adherens junctions (AJs) in epithelial cells are constantly turning over to modulate adhesion properties under various physiological and developmental contexts, but how such AJ dynamics are regulated during the apical-basal polarization of primary epithelia remains unclear. Here, we used new and genetically validated GFP markers of Drosophila E-cadherin (DE-cadherin, hereafter referred to as DE...

Optical linear polarization measurements of association members and field stars in the region of the Puppis OB III association are presented. The association members are found to have larger values of polarization than the field stars.In the direction of the association there are two regions of polarizing interstellar medium with magnetic fields that are nearly at right angles to each other. Th...

An analysis of extended defects generated during annealing by pulsed excimer laser radiation in silicon crystals implanted with Ge ions is presented. The investigation was performed by means of two complementary methods: the interference-polarizing microscopy and the Lang X-ray transmission topography. The existence of extended defects was revealed. It has been stated that the distribution of t...