Abstract The present study explored whether emergent bilingual children showed enhanced abilities to learn L3 vocabulary including written, spoken and conceptual forms compared monolinguals, the impact of L2/L3 cross-language similarities on such an effect. To this end, we contrasted English word learning performance French fifth-graders attending either a monolingual school program or classroo...

AIM OF THE STUDY Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is common throughout the world. Most HCCs are diagnosed at an advanced stage. There is an urgent need to find new methods for screening and surveillance of individuals at risk for HCC. The aim of this study was to evaluate serum α-fetoprotein (AFP)-L3 and serum Golgi protein 73 (GP73) detection in diagnosis of HCC with different AFP concentration....

a Department of Physics and Astronomy, Lehman College, City University of New York, NY 10468, USA b Department of Physics, Graduate Center, City University of New York, NY 10016, USA c Department of Astrophysics, American Museum of Natural History, NY 10024, USA d Departamento de Física, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, C.C. 67, (1900) La Plata, Argentina e LPTHE, UMR CNRS 7589, Sorbonne Unive...

Fil: Cipollone, Maria Josefina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad Ciencias Agrarias y Forestales. Departamento Biologicas. Centro Investigaciones Fitopatologia. Provincia Buenos Aires. Gobernacion. Comision Cientificas. Fitopatologia; Argentina. Cientificas; Consejo Cientificas Tecnicas. Cientifico Tecnologico Conicet - Plata; Argentina

Japan is the only country where alpha-fetoprotein (AFP)-L3 can be measured in the routine clinical setting. Since AFP-L3 examination has been covered by health insurance in Japan for over 10 years, it is now routinely measured during general medical checkups for patients with chronic liver disease. To increase the specificity of AFP, the AFP-L3 glycoform can be used as a measure of cancerous ch...

Pasteurella multocida isa gram-negative bacterial pathogen that is causative agent of a wide range of diseases in many animal species and humans. Lipopolysaccharides (LPS) are an important virulence factor, minor changes to structure of which can exert dramatic effects on pathogenicity of P. multocida in its host. LPS can be used for the identification and classification of strains with somatic...

Having close kinship to Brugia malayi, B. pahangi is a member of the family Filariidae, which causes lymphatic filariasis in dogs and cats. Although this nematode is unlikely to cause a zoonotic disease in humans, study of the B. pahangi life cycle may help control human filariasis. The objective of this study was to examine microfilarial rates and densities of B. pahangi in experimentally indu...

Water striders, a group of semi-aquatic bugs adapted to life on the water surface, have evolved mid-legs (L2) that are long relative to their hind-legs (L3). This novel appendage ground plan is a derived feature among insects, where L2 function as oars and L3 as rudders. The Hox gene Ultrabithorax (Ubx) is known to increase appendage size in a variety of insects. Using gene expression and RNAi ...

We have used antibodies directed against the 16.5 kilodalton protein L3, the most abundant integral protein of maize (Zea mays L. cv Mo 17) lipid bodies, to follow the fate of this protein in scutellar parenchyma cells of maize during germination and subsequent seedling growth. Using gel electrophoresis and immunoblotting as well as immunocytochemical electron microscopy, we found that the amou...