We designed a cage that can maintain adult bees for 21 days with about 90% survival rate, in addition to facilitating the changing of sucrose syrup and beebread, collection live dead without disturbing or releasing bees. The consumption rates bee pollen diet groups 50–200 honey were recorded after emergence. consumed mainly at age 1–9 days. Regular was observed among all throughout Furthermore,...

Objective Royal jelly is a honey bee secretion with beneficial effects on the nervous system. The present study aims to investigate of royal in reducing seizure and anxiety-like behaviors Syrian rats. Methods This an experimental study. In model, 25 male white rats were randomly divided into five groups: Control, 100 mg/kg, 200 400 phenobarbital. After 30 minutes, strychnine was injected induce...

China has the largest number of managed honey bee colonies, which produce the highest quantity of honey and royal jelly in the world; however, the presence of honey bee pathogens and parasites has never been rigorously identified in Chinese apiaries. We thus conducted a molecular survey of honey bee RNA viruses, Nosema microsporidia, protozoan parasites, and tracheal mites associated with nonna...

A technique for monitoring healthcare via the processing of routinely collected narrative documentation is presented. A checklist of important details of asthma management in use in the Glasgow Royal Infirmary (GRI) was translated into SQL queries and applied to a database of 59 GRI discharge summaries analyzed by the New York University Linguistic String Project medical language processor. Tab...

An expressed sequence tag (EST) library was established from the hypopharyngeal glands of Apis cerana. Sixty-six recombinant clones, possessing inserts > 500 bp, were randomly selected and unidirectional sequenced. Forty-two of these (63.6%) were identified as homologues of Major Royal Jelly Proteins families 1, 2, 3, and 4 of A. mellifera (AmMRJP) for which MRJP1 was the most abundant family. ...

BACKGROUND Despite having high levels of combat exposure, commando and airborne forces may be at less risk of mental ill-health than other troops. AIMS To examine differences in mental health outcomes and occupational risk factors between Royal Marines Commandos (RMCs), paratroopers (PARAs) and other army infantry (INF). METHODS Three groups of personnel (275 RMCs, 202 PARAs and 572 INF) we...

Royalactin, a component of royal jelly, induces queen differentiation in honeybees. Surprisingly, royalactin has a similar effect on growth in fruit flies, highlighting many unexpected features of growth regulation by the insect fat tissue.