Background: The expression of embryonic Homeobox (HOX) genes is tightly regulated based on anatomic location in human adult dermal and synovial fibroblasts. Previously, we showed that HOX-D10,-D11 -D13 are higher expressed fibroblasts from small distal joints the hands feet, particular digits II-V wrists compared to thumb this pattern epigenetically imprinted 1 . consequences restricted these t...

Background Systemic Mastocytosis (SM) is a very rare disease. Most common manifestations are skin related or anaphylaxis, however almost one third of patients may present with concomitant osteoporosis (OP) resulting in fragility fracture (FF) around 5 -37% affecting lumbar spine (LS) young men. Alcohol consumption, high serum tryptase level, and low femoral T score have been described as risk f...

Monoclonal antibodies (McAbs) were raised against the aggregation factor (AF) from the marine sponge Geodia cydonium. Two clones were identified that secrete McAbs against the cell binding protein of the AF complex. Fab fragments of McAbs: 5D2-D11 completely abolished the activity of the AF to form secondary aggregates from single cells. The McAbs were determined to react with the AF in vitro; ...

Conceptus loss during the preimplantation and early postimplantation period hinders the efficiency of swine reproduction. Significant conceptus loss occurs during trophectoderm elongation between gestational day 11 (D11) and day 12 (D12). Elongation of the porcine conceptus is a key stage of development during which maternal recognition of pregnancy, initial placental development, and preparati...

Akinori Igarashi1 and C. D. Lin2 1Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Miyazaki University, Miyazaki, 889-2192, Japan 2Department of Physics, Cardwell Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506 (Received 18 May 1999) Cross sections for the nonresonant charge transfer process D 1 H 1s ! D 1s 1 H at low energies are calculated in hyperspherical coordinates. The metho...

We explore how taste projection—the tendency to overestimate similar others’ tastes are one’s own—affects bidding in auctions. In first-price auctions with private values, projection leads bidders exaggerate the intensity of competition and, consequently, overbid—irrespective whether values independent, affiliated, or (a)symmetric. Moreover, optimal reserve price is lower than rational benchmar...

Elicitation mechanisms typically presume only money enters utility functions. However, nonmonetary objectives are confounders. In particular, psychologists argue people favor bets where ability is involved over equivalent random bets—a preference for control. Our new elicitation method mitigates control and determines that under the widely used matching probabilities method, subjects report bel...

Testicular tissue cryopreservation is the only potential option for fertility preservation in pre-pubertal boys exposed to gonadotoxic treatment. Completion of spermatogenesis after in vitro maturation is one of the future uses of harvested testicular tissue. The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the effects of vitamin A on in vitro maturation of fresh and frozen-thawed mouse pre-pub...