BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE CADASIL is an inherited small-vessel disease responsible for lacunar strokes and cognitive impairment. The disease is caused by highly stereotyped mutations in Notch3, the expression of which is highly restricted to vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs). The underlying vasculopathy is characterized by degeneration of VSMCs and the accumulation of granular osmiophilic mater...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) initiated a two-year regional pilot survey in 2007 to develop, test, and validate tools and approaches to assess the condition of northern Gulf of Mexico (GOM) coastal wetlands. Sampling sites were selected from estuarine and palustrine wetland areas with herbaceous, forested, and shrub/scrub habitats delineated by the ...

Micrografting can be used to produce healthy seedlings, assess scion-rootstock compatibility and promote precocity. The first objective of this project was to study the impacts of in vitro micropropagation of four major Iranian pistachio cultivars, namely ‘Ahmad Aghaei’, ‘Akbari’, ‘Badami Sefid’ and ‘Kalle Ghochi’ in two different medium Murashige and Skoog (MS) and Driver and Kuniyuki...

Knowledge of green turtle ( Chelonia mydas ) foraging ecology in the northwestern Gulf Mexico (GOM) is critical as populations begin to recover from heavy harvesting prior centuries. We present a comprehensive long-term assessment diets carcasses salvaged 1987 2014 along Texas coast. Digestive tract contents were examined 420 turtles, ranging size 7.3 86.0 cm straight carapace length (SCL max )...

Robotics systems and software are becoming more and more complex: the need of standard specifications is certainly a key issue in the near future. Indeed, to be able to share, distribute or reuse robotics software components among laboratories or companies we have to define, from the software point of view, a generic robot. By generic, we mean that components should have a standard behavior, be...

Colonial corals occur in a wide range of marine benthic habitats from the shallows to the deep ocean, often defining the structure of their local community. The black coral Leiopathes glaberrima is a long-lived foundation species occurring on carbonate outcrops in the Northern Gulf of Mexico (GoM). Multiple color morphs of L. glaberrima grow sympatrically in the region. Morphological, mitochond...

OBJECTIVE To address whether neighborhood factors, together with older adults' levels of health and functioning, suggest new combinations of risk factors for falls and new directions for prevention. To explore the utility of Grade-of-Membership (GoM) analysis to conduct this descriptive analysis. METHOD This is a cross-sectional, descriptive study of 884 people aged ≥65 years from Alameda Cou...