OBJECTIVE Common genetic variants in GCK and TCF7L2 are associated with higher fasting glucose and type 2 diabetes in nonpregnant populations. However, their associations with glucose levels from oral glucose tolerance tests (OGTTs) in pregnancy have not been assessed in a large sample. We hypothesized that these variants are associated with quantitative measures of glycemia in pregnancy. RES...

BACKGROUND The external laryngeal nerve (ELN) is not routinely identified during thyroid surgery despite clear benefits from doing so. One reason is its anatomical variations, which differ from papers to papers. There were also very few studies of ELN in Thais, especially its relation to inferior constrictor muscle and tip of superior pole of the thyroid gland, which serve as important landmark...

Toxicity of copper (Cu) and two biodegradable chemicalsÐan insecticide (dimethoate) and a detergent (LAS), was tested on a common forest litter invertebrate carnivore Lithobius mutabilis and its prey, Musca domestica. The chemicals were mixed into arti®cial food medium for house ̄y larvae, and the centipedes were kept on contaminated OECD soil and fed contaminated larvae. The concentrations of c...

Sea anemones of the genus Aiptasia Gosse, 1858 are conspicuous members of shallow-water environments worldwide and serve as a model system for studies of cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis. However, to date there have been no comprehensive analyses investigating the systematics of the group. In addition, previously published phylogenetic studies of sea anemones have shown that the genus is not ...

Green Ulvophyte macroalgae represent attractive model systems for understanding growth, development, and evolution. They are untapped resources for food, fuel, and high-value compounds, but can also form nuisance blooms. To fully analyze green seaweed morphogenesis, controlled laboratory-based culture of these organisms is required. To date, only a single Ulvophyte species, Ulva mutabilis Føyn,...

Evaluation of antimicrobial potential and cytotoxic of Pouteria venosa species Raíssa Fernanda Evangelista Pires dos Santos, Isabelle Souza de Mélo Silva Silva , Eleci Adriano Hendges, Andressa Letícia Lopes da Silva, Andriele Mendonça Barbosa, Klebson Silva Santos, Renata Rego de Souza, Thais Honório Lins, Regina Célia Santos Sales Verissimo, Francine Ferreira Padilha, Eliane Aparecida Campesa...

Study of antimicrobial potential and cytotoxic of Cordia nodosa species Raíssa Fernanda Evangelista Pires dos Santos, Isabelle Souza de Mélo Silva Silva, Lukas Reis d’Costa, Andriele Mendonça Barbosa, Klebson Santos Silva, Mariene Ribeiro Amorim, Fernando Mendonça Diz, Thais Honório Lins, Regina Célia Santos Sales Verissimo, Francine Ferreira Padilha, Eliane Aparecida Campesatto, Maria Lysete d...

The production of third generation leptoquarks can give rise to multilepton events accompanied by jets and missing ET . In this work we study the signals of these leptoquarks at the CERN Large Hadron Collider and compare them with the ones expected in supersymmetric models. ∗Email: [email protected] †Email: [email protected] ‡Email: [email protected] 1

As a result of this study, 8 new host (Botaurus lentiginosus for Glossocercus caribaensis and Valipora mutabilis; Egretta caerulea for Valipora minuta; Egretta thula for Glossocercus cyprinodontis; Egretta tricolor and Nycticorax nycticorax for Glossocercus caribaensis; Pelecanus occidentalis and Platalea ajaja for Paradilepis caballeroi) and 31 new locality records for gryporhynchid cestode sp...

Imposex and butyltin concentrations were assessed in Hexaplex trunculus, Conus mediterraneus, Cyclope neritea and Nassarius mutabilis from Menzel Jemil, and H. trunculus and Stramonita haemastoma from the Bizerta channel. All females of the five species exhibited the characteristic development of male sex organs (penis and/or vas deferens). In Menzel Jemil, H. trunculus and C. mediterraneus exh...