The present study examined year-to-year variations in areas affected by drought during a period of 39 water yearsin Iran. Ninety-five meteorological stations were chosen to provide near-continuous long-term records, althoughsome data was missing (less than 10%). The missing data points were estimated using a linear correlation methodbetween the reference station with the missing data points and...

Previous studies have shown that caspase inhibitors are effective at protecting against anti-Fas antibody (alpha-Fas)-mediated liver injury/lethality. The purpose of these experiments was to characterize more fully the efficacy of a broad-spectrum, irreversible caspase inhibitor, IDN-1965 (N-[(1,3-dimethylindole-2-carbonyl)valinyl]-3-amino-4-oxo-5-fluoropentanoic acid), in this model and the ro...

Beta-adrenergic blockers are increasingly used in the treatment of angina pectoris (Hamer et al., 1964, 1966; Srivastava, Dewar, and Newell, 1964; Gillam and Prichard, 1965, 1966; Keelan, 1965; Rabkin et al., 1966; Wolfson et al., 1966), cardiac arrhythmias (Stock and Dale, 1963; Fiene, Griffin, and Harrison, 1965; Ginn, Irons, and Orgain, 1965; Harrison, Griffin, and Fiene, 1965; Bath, 1966; H...

BACKGROUND Although the occurrence of cardiac myocyte apoptosis during heart failure has been documented, its importance in pathogenesis is unknown. Transgenic mice with cardiac-restricted overexpression of Galpha(q) exhibit a lethal, peripartum cardiomyopathy accompanied by apoptosis. To test whether apoptosis is causally linked to heart failure, we assessed whether inhibiting this cell death ...

Background—Although the occurrence of cardiac myocyte apoptosis during heart failure has been documented, its importance in pathogenesis is unknown. Transgenic mice with cardiac-restricted overexpression of G q exhibit a lethal, peripartum cardiomyopathy accompanied by apoptosis. To test whether apoptosis is causally linked to heart failure, we assessed whether inhibiting this cell death would ...

Hooded rats exhibit high level interocular transfer of either black-white or pattern discriminations (Sheridan, 1965), and in this regard they resemble more advanced mammals such as cats (Myers, 1962), monkeys (Downer, 1962) and chimpanzees (Black & Myers, 1965). Albino rats, in sharp contrast to hooded rats trained under identical circumstances, display only very low level interocular transfer...

The systematics and bionomics of the Palaearctic brood parasitic genus Nipponodipogon Ishikawa, 1965 are revised. Seven species are listed. A new species N. sudai Shimizu, sp. nov. (Japan, Honshu) and the hitherto unknown males of N. iwatai (Ishikawa, 1965) and N. nagasei (Ishikawa, 1965) are described and illustrated. Six species from Japan and the Russian Far East are redescribed. A key to sp...

In a study of plants collected from the NW Iran, a specimen was identified as Arabis carduchorum Boiss.(Cullen 1965).