(2812) Primula sawyeri G. Watt, Rep. Bot. Coll. H. A. Sawyer S. W. Persia: 94. 1891 [Angiosp.: Primul.], nom. utique rej. prop. Typus: deest. The type of the name Watt (Rep. 1891) (≡ Dionysia (G. Watt) Wendelbo in Aarbok Univ. Bergen, Mat.-Naturvitensk. Ser. 1961(3): 64. 1961) is believed to have been early lost, but there little doubt about its identity, as I will show below. hitherto accepted...

Background and objectives: Evaluating the safety of pharmaceutical products by in vitro methods like cell culture, and in vivo tests on animals, is one of the regulatory steps in development of drugs which is called the preclinical stage. If acceptable results are obtained, the drug can be used in clinical studies. In this study, we have investigated the cytot...

BACKGROUND A number of medicinal plants have been used to treat various immunological diseases. Nitric oxide (NO) has an important regulatory role in the various types of inflammatory processes. OBJECTIVE To investigate the NO modulatory activity of the extracts of several medicinal plants native to Iran including Dracocephalum kotschyi, Linum persicum, Dionysia termeana, Salvia mirzayanii, F...

Lionel Abel coined the word ‘metatheatre’ in his 1963 book, Metatheatre: A New View of Dramatic Form, claiming he had discovered a new type of theatre, and cited Shakespeare’s Hamlet as the first metatheatrical play. Over the intervening decades, various scholars have pushed the incidence of the earliest metatheatrical play back beyond Hamlet. Richard Hornby, in his 1986 book, Drama, Metadrama,...

The judging procedure for Athenian dramatic contests is not well understood. In this paper, we present a new model that we believe takes account of all the relevant data, which possesses the additional virtue of clarity of execution, so that a large festival audience can easily follow the proceedings as the winner is determined publicly. It differs in certain important respects from other inter...

Theodosis, Dionysia T., Andrei Trailin, and Dominique A. Poulain. Remodeling of astrocytes, a prerequisite for synapse turnover in the adult brain? Insights from the oxytocin system of the hypothalamus. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 290: R1175–R1182, 2006; doi:10.1152/ajpregu.00755.2005.—Neurons, including their synapses, are generally ensheathed by fine processes of astrocytes, but th...