Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is transcribed in the VEGF(120), VEGF(164), or VEGF(188) isoforms, which differ in receptor binding, matrix association, and angiogenic activity. This vascular growth factor has been implicated in the development of the renal vasculature, but the role of the distinct VEGF isoforms remains unknown. In the present report, renal angiogenesis and arteriogen...

In this new series of Fungal Biodiversity Profiles, the authors provide descriptions for ten taxa: Ilytheomyces uncinatus W. Rossi & M. Leonardi, sp. nov. (Ascomycota, Laboulbeniales) and several Basidiomycota: in family Entolomataceae Entoloma aurantioalpinum Armada, Vila, Bellanger, Noordel., Krisai Dima, E. nigroflavescens Noordel. nov., both from France; Inocybaceae Inocybe hebes Eyssart. B...

Adolescence may be defined as the period of life 'rom the end of childhood, and indicated physically by the bodily changes associated with puberty, continuing until full physical development is achieved, and adult status in society is recognised. Unfortunately there is incomplete agreement as to the time-period involved. Some authors (Sandstrom) consider the years from 12-16, the age 10-12 bein...

We argue in favor of the presumed c o m m i t protocol by proposing two new presumed commit variants that sign$cantly reduce the cost of logging activities associated with the original presumed commit protocol. Furthermore, for read-only transactions, we apply our unsolicited updatevote optim’zationand show that the cost associated with this type of transactions is the same in both presumed com...

Introduction. Since the time of Riemann, there has been a close interplay between the study of the geometry of complex algebraic curves (or, equivalently, compact Riemann surfaces) and the topology of 2-manifolds. These connections arise from the uniformization theorem, which asserts that every simply connected Riemann surface is conformally equivalent to either the Riemann sphere, the plane, o...

Dynamic replication can be used to reduce bandwidth consumption and access latency in high performance “data grids” where users require remote access to large files. Different replication strategies can be defined depending on when, where, and how replicas are created and destroyed. We describe a simulation framework that we have developed to enable comparative studies of alternative dynamic re...