— American White Pelicans ( Pelecanus erythrorhynchos ) are reported to consume large quantities of commercial catfish in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi, negatively impacting aquaculture production. If pelicans consume a single item diet, such as catfish, nutritional deficiencies may result. Therefore, effects of monoand multi-species diets were examined to determine nutritional i...

The origin of baleen in mysticete whales represents a major transition in the phylogenetic history of Cetacea. This key specialization, a keratinous sieve that enables filter-feeding, permitted exploitation of a new ecological niche and heralded the evolution of modern baleen-bearing whales, the largest animals on Earth. To date, all formally described mysticete fossils conform to two types: to...

OBJECTIVE Collateral artery growth (arteriogenesis) can be induced in rabbit and mice by occlusion of the femoral artery. We aimed to identify genes that are differentially expressed during arteriogenesis. METHODS 24 h after femoral ligation or sham operation collateral arteries were isolated from New Zealand white rabbits, mRNAs were extracted and amplified using the SMART technique. cDNAs w...

The gene ankyrin repeat domain 1 (Ankrd1) is an enigmatic gene and may exert pleiotropic function dependent on its expression level, subcellular localization and even types of pathological stress, but it remains unclear how these factors influence the fate of cardiomyocytes. Here we attempted to investigate the role of CARP on cardiomyocyte hypertrophy. In neonatal rat ventricular cardiomyocyte...

A novel strategy which works with improved performance in many factors. We have used Open CV, an picture handling tool kit for applying and examining our ideas. We present a new protection basic based on hard AI issues, namely, a novel family of visual protection password techniques built on top of Captcha technology, which we call Captcha as visual security passwords (CaRP). CaRP is both a Cap...

We characterized the insulin receptors in skeletal muscle from several fish species with different nutritional preferences: brown trout (Salmo trutta fario), gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata), tilapia (Tilapia mossambica), and carp (Cyprinus carpio), semipurified by affinity chromatography (wheat germ agglutinin-agarose). Total specific binding and number of receptors per unit weight of piscin...

Although the regulatory mechanisms for the age-related rise in proliferation and reduction in apoptosis in the colonic mucosa are yet to be fully delineated, we have demonstrated that these events are associated with increased expression and activation of epithelial growth factor receptor (EGFR)/ErbB-1 and some of its receptor family members (EGFRs), indicating their involvement in these proces...

BACKGROUND Articular manifestations are common in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) whereas erosive disease is not. Antibodies to cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP) are citrulline-dependent in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), whereas the opposite is suggested in SLE, as reactivity with cyclic arginine peptide (CAP) is typically present. Antibodies targeting carbamylated proteins (anti-CarP) may...