My dear Foster I sympathise this very strongly with Brady (whose letter I return herewith) and if he will go to Styria and stand over v. L with a big stick while he makes the requisite corrections – I am ready to subscribe 5/-toward the cost of the stick. Otherwise it is the old story of taking the horse to the water and being able to make him drink. Practically, I see nothing for it but to put...

Imagine yourself walking alone down a dark alley after midnight. Suddenly, you freeze. The man seen in Figure 11.1 is standing straight ahead of you. In a split second, you recognize the anger so strongly evident by the expression on his face and by his tightly clenched fist. Terrified, you turn around, running for your life. Two long minutes later, you are safe in the main street. Admittedly, ...

Hundreds of different human skeletal disorders have been characterized at molecular level and a growing number of resembling dysplasias with orthologous genetic defects are being reported in dogs. This study describes a novel genetic defect in the Brazilian Terrier breed causing a congenital skeletal dysplasia. Affected puppies presented severe skeletal deformities observable within the first m...

Lymphocyte migration into the brain represents a critical event in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis and its animal model, experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). However, the mechanisms controlling the recruitment of lymphocytes to the CNS via inflamed brain venules are poorly understood, and therapeutic approaches to inhibit this process are consequently few. In this study, we d...

In this report, we present structural data for the murine Xist gene. The data presented in this paper demonstrate that the murine Xist transcript is at least 17.4 kb, not 14.3 kb as previously reported. The new structure of the murine Xist gene described herein has seven exons, not six. Exon VII encodes an additional 3.1 kb of information at the 3' end. Exon VII contains seven possible sites fo...

0042-6989/$ see front matter 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2013.10.022 DOI of original article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2013.08.010 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: 148 Church Street, St. Peters, New South Wales 2044, Australia. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (M. Farrell-Whelan), [email protected] (K.R. Brooks). Max Farrell-Whe...

We consider recent results on the use of the single-site entanglement measure for identifying and characterizing a quantum phase transition in systems of interacting fermions. We discuss the extension of these results to fermionic models where the single-site entanglement may fail to signal a quantum phase transition, with particular attention given to the one-dimensional extended UV Hubbard mo...

BACKGROUND Cichorium glandulosum (CG), which is a Compositae family plant, is a commonly used traditional Uighur medicine capable of cleansing liver and being cholagogue, strengthening stomach, promoting digestion, inducing diuresis and reducing edema. OBJECTIVES To study the liver and spleen indices, the levels of serum aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT), and...

One pathway of blood coagulation, the extrinsic system, is initiated by a specific interaction between tissue factor, which is a membrane lipoprotein, and factor VII, one of the plasma coagulation factors. Factor VII was prepared from bovine plasma by adsorption onto and elution from BaSO(4). The eluate was chromatographed on DEAE-Sephadex and purified by preparative disc-gel electrophoresis. F...