In molting animals, a cuticular extracellular matrix forms the first barrier to infection and other environmental insults. In the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans there are two types of cuticle: a well-studied collagenous cuticle lines the body, and a poorly-understood chitinous cuticle lines the pharynx. In the posterior end of the pharynx is the grinder, a tooth-like cuticular specialization t...

Expression of sweet receptor components in equine small intestine: relevance to intestinal glucose transport Kristian Daly,* Miran Al-Rammahi,* Daleep K. Arora, Andrew W. Moran, Christopher J. Proudman, Yuzo Ninomiya, and Soraya P. Shirazi-Beechey Epithelial Function and Development Group, Department of Functional and Comparative Genomics, Institute of Integrative Biology, Faculty of Health and...

Mandana Shirazi, Sagar V. Parikh, Ideh Dadgaran, Charlotte Silén Education Development Center, Medical Education Department, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Departments of LIME and Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Medical-Surgical Nursing Department, Langroud Nursing and Midwifery...

1 Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2 Ecological Marine Services, Millbank, QLD, Australia, 3 Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 4 NOAA/NESDIS/STAR Coral Reef Watch, College Park, MD, United States, 5 Marine Geophysical Laboratory, Physics Department, College of Science and Engi...

Using of phytobiotics as fish feed additives have been interestingly increased during the recent decade. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the effect of individual and combined level of thyme and vitamin E in common carp. Juveniles were separately fed by four distinct diets including control (commercial diet without any additive), supplemented with 1% ground Shirazi thyme, supplement...

It has been recently suggested by Arkani-Hamed, Dimopoulos and Dvali that gravity may become strong at energies not far above the electroweak scale and thus remove the hierarchy problem. Such a scenario can be tested at both present and future accelerators since towers of Kaluza-Klein gravitons and associated scalar fields now play an important phenomenological role. In this paper we examine se...

In this paper, we investigate the bulk service queue with Bernoulli vacation schedule and restricted admissibility introduced and studied by Madan and Abu-Dayyeh, [Revista Investigacion Operacional, Vol.24, No.2, pp.113-123, 2003]. Madan and Abu-Dayyeh assume exponentially distributed service times while we allow these times to be generally distributed. We obtain various performance measures th...