A new general type of morphogenetic process has been revealed by experiments on the phenomenon of non-coalescence between different strain types {alpha and delta) in the sponge Ephydatia fluviatilis. The question investigated was whether any process of cell adhesion was responsible for the phenomenon. Preliminary results suggested that the cells might show specific adhesion but further results ...

Whole 8-cell morulae can be aggregated with isolated inner cell masses from blastocysts. On examining semithin light microscope sections of such aggregates we found that cells of the morula changed shape and spread over the surface of the ICM, thus translocating it to the inside of the aggregate. Using single cells from 8-cell embryos in combination with single cells from other stage embryos or...

BACKGROUND Obesity, a worldwide pandemia, is associated with a large variety of comorbidities, among which is non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. NAFLD is a complex disease that may eventually lead to cirrhosis, posing a high risk for the patient and thus necessitating early diagnosis and treatment. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the association between ultrasonographically diagnosed non-alcoholic fat...

OBJECTIVE The aim was to determine the influence of meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) and aqueous tear deficiency dry eye (ADDE) on the adhesive properties of the central cornea by means of optical coherence tomography (OCT), and to investigate the relationship between corneal adhesiveness and classical tear tests, as well as the reliability of results, in these lacrimal functional unit disorde...

1 University Koblenz-Landau, Institute for Integrated Natural Sciences, Germany 2 Leibniz Universität Hannover, Forschungszentrum Küste, Germany 3 University Koblenz-Landau, Institute for Integrated Natural Sciences, Germany 4 University Stuttgart, Institute for Institute for Modelling Hydraulic and Environmental Systems, Germany 5 University Koblenz-Landau, Institute for Environmental Sciences...

Earlier studies have shown that patients iting no platelet adhesiveness. It is postuwith von Wiilebrand’s disease are considlated that there may be two groups of ered to have normal platelets, but they patients within von Willebrand’s disease lack at least one plasma protein. Results and, further, that ristocetin will provide a are presented indicating that ristocetin, useful approach to study ...