In the present study, we report that the cuneiform (Cun) nucleus, a brainstem structure that before now has not been implicated in sleep processes, exhibits a large number of neurons that express c-fos during carbachol-induced active sleep (AS-carbachol). Compared with control (awake) cats, during AS-carbachol, there was a 671% increase in the number of neurons that expressed c-fos in this stru...

Amplification and sequencing of mitochondrial DNA regions corresponding to three major clusters of transfer RNA genes from a variety of species representing major groups of birds and reptiles revealed some new variations in tRNA gene organization. First, a gene rearrangement from tRNA(His)-tRNA(Ser)(AGY)-tRNA(Leu)(CUN) to tRNA(Ser)(AGY)-tRNA(His)tRNA(Leu)(CUN) occurs in all three crocodilians e...

S FROM THE JOURNAL OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE, BEIJING (JTCM) TO BUY ANY JTCM ARTICLE IN FULL 32 Cases of Tennis Elbow Treated by the Three-Needle Therapy on the Elbow Zhang Hongxing The 32 patients, with a disease duration ranging from 28 days to 1 year, were all needled at the ahshi point (a 1 cun needle inserted perpendicularly to the periosteum), Chize LU-5 (a 2 cun needle directed tow...

BACKGROUND The cardiovascular risk of obesity is potentially increased by arterial stiffness. OBJECTIVE To assess the relationship of adiposity measures with arterial stiffness in Caucasian adults with intermediate cardiovascular risk. SETTING Six Spanish health centres. PARTICIPANTS We enrolled 2354 adults (age range, 35-74 years; mean age, 61.4±7.7 years, 61.9% male). METHODS This is ...

The group I intron interrupting the tRNALeu UAA gene (trnL) is present in most cyanobacterial genomes as well as in the plastids of many eukaryotic algae and all green plants. In lichen symbiotic Nostoc, the P6b stem-loop of trnL intron always involves one of two different repeat motifs, either Class I or Class II, both with unresolved evolutionary histories. Here we attempt to resolve the comp...

Transfer RNA (tRNA) plays a central role in protein synthesis and acts as an adaptor molecule between an mRNA and an amino acid. A tRNA has an L-shaped clover leaf-like structure and contains an acceptor arm, D-arm, D-loop, anti-codon arm, anti-codon loop, variable loop, Ψ-arm and Ψ-loop. All of these arms and loops are important in protein translation. Here, we aimed to delineate the genomic a...

Abstract The study is to investigate the physical, mechanical, and tribological properties of Al6063 alloy reinforced by Silicon Nitride (Si 3 N 4 ) & compound Copper Nitrate (CuN 2 O 6 processed via Powder Metallurgy (PM) Techniques. Incorporation reinforcement in matrix material ranged from 12% Si a 6-step interval, 6%CuN two-step interval. characterizations were made on PM produced speci...

The complete mol-ecule of the title complex, [Cu(3)(C(15)H(13)N(2)O(3))(2)(C(5)H(5)N)(2)], is generated by crystallographic twofold symmetry, with the central Cu atom lying on the rotation axis: it is coordinated by two N,O-bidentate ligands in a trans-CuN(2)O(2) distorted square-planar arrangement. The other Cu atom is coordinated by an N,O,O'-tridentate ligand and a pyridine mol-ecule in a di...

The photoelectron spectra of mass-selected negatively charged Nin and Cun clusters show similarities, which indicate an almost total localization of the Ni 3d orbitals corresponding to a maximum magnetic moment of 1mB per Ni atom. The similarity between Nin and Cun vanishes for n . 7 corresponding to an increase in 3d delocalization. The data of Pdn clusters suggest a Ni-like (“magnetic”) elect...