We found a novel spontaneous mouse mutant with depigmentation in the ventral body, which we called White Spotting (WS) mouse. Genetic investigation revealed deletion of a > 1.2-Mb genomic region containing nine genes (Kit, Kdr, Srd5a3, Tmeme165, Clock, Pdcl2, Nmu, Exoc1, and Cep135). We designated this mutant allele Kit(WS). Interestingly, homozygous mutants (Kit(WS/WS)) showed a peri-implantat...

abstract  introduction: hyperalgesia is considered as one the marked signs of subchronic diabetes mellitus that could affect the life style of the patients. with c onsidering the potential anti-diabetic effect of the medicinal plant withania somnifera (ws)( ashwagandha), this study was designed to investigate the analgesic effect of ws on formalin-induced nociceptive responses (standard formali...

One of the latest trends is marked by the emergence of so-called web services (WS). These allow rapid application development, characterized by a low cost and an easy distributed application composing. The OASIS WS-BPEL 2.0 standard is an XML-based language which allows to specify the behavior of a business process as a WS which interacts with other external WS. WS-BPEL is a challenge for tradi...

Individuals with specific genetic syndromes associated with intellectual disability (ID), such as Williams syndrome (WS), are at increased risk for developing anxiety disorders. A systematic literature review identified sixteen WS papers that could generate pooled prevalence estimates of anxiety disorders for WS. A meta-analysis compared these estimates with prevalence estimates for the heterog...

Web services (WS) provide a technology for integrating applications over the Internet. The components of a WS are active and persistent computational entities that have autonomous and social behaviours. The paper investigates the formal specification of WS architecture and applications within a caste-centric framework of multi-agent systems. An abstract specification of the general architecture...

The objective of the present study was to evaluate the antidepressant action of Withania somnifera (WS) as well as its interaction with the conventional antidepressant drugs and to delineate the possible mechanism of its antidepressant action using forced swimming model in mice. Effect of different doses of WS, fluoxetine and imipramine were studied on forced swimming test induced mean immobili...

Thus far, the measurement of dielectric properties of biological tissues has been achieved on the assumption that the biological tissues are homogeneous. In fact, most tissues should be heterogeneous because there are many small structures included in these tissues, such as blood vessel, nerve fiber and so on. When the dielectric properties of these tissues are measured by conventional sensor, ...

This study examined Object-based (OB) rotation and Visual Perspective-Taking (VPT) abilities in Williams syndrome (WS) compared to typically developing (TD) 5-10-year-olds. Extensive difficulties with both types of imagined rotation were observed in WS; WS performance was in line with the level of ability observed in TD 5-year-olds. However, an atypical pattern of errors on OB and VPT tasks was...

We calculate the on-shell Σ-Λ mixing parameter θ with the method of QCD sum rule. Our result is θ(m Σ ) = (−)(0.5 ± 0.1) MeV. The electromagnetic interaction is not included.