The relatively simple neural circuit driving the escape response in zebrafish offers an excellent opportunity to study properties of neural circuit formation. The hindbrain Mauthner cell is an essential component of this circuit. Mutations in the zebrafish deadly seven/notch1a (des) gene result in supernumerary Mauthner cells. We addressed whether and how these extra cells are incorporated into...

Four new diterpenoid alkaloids: tiantaishansine (1), tiantaishannine (2), tiantaishanmine (3), and tiantaishandine (4) have been isolated from the roots of Delphinium tiantaishan. Their structures were elucidated by chemical evidence and spectral analyses, including ESI-MS, HR-EI-MS, 1D- and 2D-NMR.

In this overview we explore the electroanalytical determination of molecule murder: atropine. Atropine, occurs naturally in various plants nightshade family, including deadly (Atropa belladonna). On one hand, atropine, a tropane alkaloid, has medical uses, named on World Health Organisations list essential medicines, used for example resuscitations and as an antidote to certain poison gases ins...

Primary Dysmenorrhea is literally termed as Painful menstruation. Most of the women do suffer with painful menses which intervenes in their day to activities. cause pain due excessive vasopressin, leukotrienes, prostaglandin, myometrial ischemia, uterine malformation. may present abdomen before or during menses, associated nausea, tachycardia, irritability, fatigue, and headache. In this study ...

F or almost 250 years, the Dutch held exclusive trading rights with Japan from the island of Deshima at Nagasaki. Holland encouraged surgeons on their trading ships to offer medical assistance to Japanese physicians—an act strictly forbidden at the time by the ruling shogun. Nevertheless, beginning in 1625, a long series of physicians persisted in these efforts, the most prominent among them be...

The clinical picture of the catarrhal child is one which is unfortunately too well known to need minute description, although careful consideration of the disease process is an essential if thWere is to be any advance in our therapeutic efforts to relieve or cure the child of its symptoms. Up to date, therapy has been disjointed, haphazard and not too successful although it is agreed by many cl...

* The carbon costs of reproduction were examined in four subalpine herbaceous plant species for which number and size of flowers respond differently under a long-term infrared warming experiment. * Instantaneous measurements of gas exchange and an integrative model were used to calculate whole-plant carbon budgets and reproductive effort (RE). * Of the two species for which flowering was reduce...