Various prostaglandins (PGs) have been found in several areas of the brain. PGs of the E series have been found in the pituitary and pineal glands and the median eminence, and they have been shown to influence hypothalamic endocrine-release characteristics and release of melatonin from the pineal gland. It has been suggested that they may act, along with membrane phospholipids, as a link betwee...

Consider the 3×3 square consisting of nine variables x1,x2, . . . ,x9 as in Figure 2.1. The variables take values from {±1}. Each row and column corresponds to a constraint as follows. For the last column on the doubled line, the constraint is that the three variables of the column have product −1. For the other rows and columns with single lines, the constraints are that the variables on them ...

Toxicity by oral route administration of S. anacardium extract with peanut oil was compared against the same extract emulsified with Tween-80 saline. The traditional way of administration with peanut oil was found to be safe and upto 25 mg/kg/day x9 days, increase in weight, RBCs & haemoglobin % was observed without mortality. Same dose with Tween-80 saline was found to have adverse effects reg...

This study was conducted to establish an in vitro maturation (IVM) system by selection of efficient porcine serum during porcine in vitro production. To investigate the efficient porcine serum (PS), different types of PS [newborn pig serum, prepubertal gilt serum (PGS), estrus sow serum, and pregnancy sow serum] were used to supplement IVM media with or without gonadotrophin (GTH) and developme...

Ripening-associated pectin disassembly in melon is characterized by a decrease in molecular mass and an increase in the solubilization of polyuronide, modifications that in other fruit have been attributed to the activity of polygalacturonase (PG). Although it has been reported that PG activity is absent during melon fruit ripening, a mechanism for PG-independent pectin disassembly has not been...

EOLib, the Earth Observation Image Librarian is an upcoming Image Information Mining (IIM) system for earth observation (EO) products. As integral part of a payload ground segment (PGS) it operates on the original EO products, metadata, and on computed higher level abstractions including basic features and semantic annotations of product tiles. The core goal of EOLib is to introduce mature info...

BACKGROUND Embryo biopsy is a new invasive procedure applied in ART for diagnostic purposes in preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) or to increase pregnancy rate in preimplantation genetic screening (PGS). The objective of this study is to assess mental and psychomotor developmental outcomes in 2-year-old children born after PGD/PGS, intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) and natural concep...

Polarized conceptual graphs (PGs) are simple conceptual graphs added with a restricted form of negation, namely negation on relations. Classical deduction with PGs (in short PG-Deduction) is highly intractable; it is indeed Π P complete. In [LM06] a brute-force algorithm for solving PG-Deduction was outlined. In the present paper, we extend previous work with two kinds of results. First, we exh...

PROSTAGLANDINS (PGs) are natural constituents of the brain and spinal cord. They are released from the central nervous system (CNS) spontaneously, in response to electrical and chemical stimulation and during fever. In addition to their action on brain-stem neurones when applied iontophoretically (Avanzino, Bradley and Wolstencroft, 1966) they have potent CNS effects which are now considered. B...