AIM Genetic data were used to measure the phylogeographic distribution of the limpet, Cellana toreuma along the China coast in order to acsertain impacts of historic events, ocean currents and especially freshwater discharge from the Yangtze River on the connectivity of intertidal species with limited larval dispersal capability. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Genetic variation in 15 populati...

It is well-known that policosanol can improve serum lipid profiles, although the physiological mechanism is still unknown. Here, we investigated functional and structural changes in lipoproteins after consumption of policosanol. To investigate the physiological effect of policosanol, we analyzed serum parameters in young non-smoker (YN; n=7, 24.0±2.4 years), young smoker (YS; n=7, 26.3±1.5 year...

The objective of this experiment was to evaluate the effect of BW and physiological status of a beef animal on forage intake. The experiment was repeated over 2 yr with 6 replications of 3 treatments per year: cow-calf pair (CCP, BW = 629 kg), nonlactating cow (NLC, BW = 503 kg), and yearling steer (YS, BW = 305 kg). The CCP was treated as one unit, with the sum of cow BW and calf BW comprising...

In our original published manuscript entitled “Type 2 immunity-dependent reduction of segmented filamentous bacteria in mice infected with the helminthic parasite Nippostrongylus brasiliensis” [1], a co-author was incorrectly omitted. The correct author list should include Emmanuel Mongodin from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland...

It is known that the Ehrlich ascites tumor is of epithelial origin, while the Yoshida sarcoma originates from the reticuloendothelium (13). The present paper deals with a comparative electron microscopic study of uninfected Ehrlich mouse ascites tumor (EAT) cells, Yoshida sarcoma (YS) cells, and human cancerous peritonitis ascites (HCPA) cells. A morphological analysis of the EAT by electron mi...

Slicing is a widely-used technique with applications in e.g. compiler technology and software security. Thus verification of algorithms in these areas is often based on the correctness of slicing, which should ideally be proven independent of concrete programming languages and with the help of well-known verifying techniques such as proof assistants. As a first step in this direction, this cont...

Adult murine bone marrow hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) can be purified by sorting Hoechst 33342-extruding side population (SP) cells. Herein we investigated whether SP cells reside within embryonic tissues and exhibit hematopoietic progenitor activity. We isolated yolk sac (YS) and embryonic tissues 7.5 to 11.5 days after coitus (dpc), resolved an SP in each, and demonstrated that these SP ce...

Recently, there are several articles proposed based on Yang and Shieh’s password authentication schemes (YS for short) with the following features: (1) A user can choose password freely. (2) The server does not need to maintain a password table. (3) There is no need to involve a trusted third party. Although there were several variants of the YS-like schemes claimed to address the forgery attac...

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