PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to identify the influence of pelvic incidence (PI) on spinopelvic parameters in patients with degenerative lumbar scoliosis (DLS) and compare them with those of a normal population. METHODS There were two groups in this study. One group was composed by 136 patients with DLS and another was composed by 120 participants free of spinal disease. In each group...

We have studied the number of arginine-vasopressin (AVP)-immunoreactive (IR) cells in the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) in common voles, Microtus arvalis, with a strong (n = 18), weak (n = 10) or absent (n = 9) expression of circadian rhythmicity. Spontaneous expression of rhythmicity was assessed from records of wheel running activity and general activity, measured with passive infra-red detect...

Plants load sugars from photosynthesizing leaves into the phloem of exporting veins either "apoplastically" (by using H+/sucrose symporters) or "symplastically" (through plasmodesmata). The ability to regulate photosynthesis in response to the light environment was compared among apoplastic loaders (pea and spinach) and symplastic loaders (pumpkin and Verbascum phoeniceum). Plants were grown un...

The hliA gene of Synechococcus, encoding a photoprotective high light inducible polypeptide, is up-regulated by high light (HL) or low intensity blue/UV-A light (BL). hliA expression was found to be up-regulated by KCN in low light (LL) (but not in the dark), and up-regulation in HL, BL, and LL (with KCN) was inhibited by 2,5-dibromo-3-methyl-6-isopropyl-benzoquinone. A working hypothesis is pr...

Maternal care is crucial for offspring development and licking/grooming patterns can be induced by sensorial, neuroendocrine, and metabolic variations in the CNS. Important brain functions, such as learning and memory, can be influenced by oxidative stress, which can also modulate pathophysiological processes (e.g., depression, anxiety, and other psychiatric disorders). This study evaluated oxi...

The nucleus medialis is the main first-order target of the mechanosensory lateral line (LL) system. This report definitively demonstrates that mechanosensory LL inputs also terminate in the ipsilateral dorsal portion of the descending octaval nucleus (dDO) in the goldfish. The dDO, which is the main first-order auditory nucleus in bony fishes, includes neurons that receive direct input from the...

Candida albicans is the major fungal pathogen of humans. Fungal adhesion to host cells is the first step of mucosal infiltration. Antimicrobial peptides play important roles in the initial mucosal defense against C. albicans infection. LL-37 is the only member of the human cathelicidin family of antimicrobial peptides and is commonly expressed in various tissues and cells, including epithelial ...

results ll-37 and its truncated analogs were effective in inhibiting the growth of pdrab and had a rapid killing ability. after exposure to the peptides, the development of the pdrab biofilm was inhibited. strong inhibitory and dispersion effects of ff/cap18 on the biofilm were confirmed by fluorescence microscopy and field emission scanning electron microscopy. conclusions this results show th...

the present note arises from the author's talk at the conference ``ischia group theory 2014''. for subgroups $fle n$ of a group $g$ denote by $lat(f,n)$ the set of all subgroups of $n$, containing $f$. let $d$ be a subgroup of $g$. in this note we study the lattice $ll=lat(d,g)$ and the lattice $ll'$ of subgroups of $g$, normalized by $d$. we say that $ll$ satisfies sandwich classification theo...