According to the WHO Multinational Study1) on the vascular complications of diabetes mellitus, the prevalence rates of microvascular complications in diabetic patients were the same both in Asiatic (Japan and Hong Kong) and Western countries, but the rates of cardiovascular complications were far lower in Asiatic than that in Western countries. We had the same result in our study done in the pa...

Abstract Many mammalian species communicate via olfactory communication placed at particular locations. The majority of these studies focused on intraspecific communication. More recently, have also investigated interspecific and recorded prey animals sniffing cues left by predators investigating or counter-marking other predator species. purpose exchanging within a community is little understo...

Northeast India, the only region which currently forms a land bridge between the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, has been proposed as an important corridor for the initial peopling of East Asia. Given that the Austro-Asiatic linguistic family is considered to be the oldest and spoken by certain tribes in India, Northeast India and entire Southeast Asia, we expect that populations of thi...

Institution of a policy of vaccination in endangered species with a vaccine not previously administered to it cannot be undertaken lightly. This applies even more in the case of cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) with their unusually monomorphic gene pool and the potential restrictions this places on their immune responses. However, the recently observed mortalities from anthrax in these animals in the...

Asiatic acid and corosolic acid are two natural products identified as biofilm inhibitors in a biofilm inhibition assay. We evaluated the activities of these two compounds on Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms grown in rotating disk reactors (RDRs) in combination with tobramycin and ciprofloxacin. To determine the ruggedness of our systems, the antibiotic susceptibilities of these biofilms were as...