There is a marked increase in the maternal behavior displayed by a female rat following pregnancy-due primarily to exposure to the gonadal hormones progesterone and estradiol (P and E(2), respectively). We examined Golgi-Cox silver-stained, Vibratome-sectioned neurons visualized and traced using computerized microscopy and image analysis. In Part One, we examined the hormonal-neural concomitant...

Around the world rangelands that have been degraded, such as historical desert grasslands now dominated by woody shrubs, are resistant to restoration efforts. The goal of this descriptive research was to examine the potential for black grama (Bouteloua eriopoda [Torr.] Torr.) recovery by remnant plants in a degraded area as a function of plant location across a landscape. Our objectives were 1)...

background and aim: basal cell carcinoma (bcc) is the most common skin neoplasm and the most common type of cancer. since the incidence of injury is taken into consideration in the pathologic diagnosis, the study of clinical and microscopic views of bcc is of particular importance. the present study aimed at determining the frequency of clinical and microscopic views of bcc in a 10-year period ...