Pattern formation during epithelial development requires the coordination of multiple signaling pathways. Here, we investigate the functions of an ovary-enriched miRNA, miR-318, in epithelial development during Drosophila oogenesis. mir-318 maternal loss-of-function mutants were female-sterile and laid eggs with abnormal morphology. Removal of mir-318 disrupted the dorsal-anterior follicle cell...

The role of the autonomic nervous system in ventricular function was studied in conscious animals when either the cardiac nerves or the sympathetic nerves to the heart had been eliminated. Regional neural ablation was used to denervate the heart, and blockade of the cardiac sympathetic nerves was performed with propranolol. A reduction in the plateau of the ventricular output was seen in the ca...

Introduction. Health is a resource for mindful life of human being. There are various health-related actions associated with maintaining the health. Their implementation requires appropriate efforts related to motivation. The hypothesis study fact that functional abilities being significantly level his motivation aim determine health in patients and healthy people investigate its relationship b...

We presented a new proof that the bitonic network is a counting network. Our proof consists of a routine veriication of the necessary and suucient conditions involved in combinatorial characterization theorems for counting and merging networks shown in 8]. This proof is a concrete instance of a paradigmatic methodology, suggested in this work, for showing correctness of balancing networks. For ...

(b) If your answer to (a) was “yes”, does the result still hold if one of the sequences does not converge uniformly? If your answer to (a) was “no”, what additional assumptions on (fn) and (gn) will yield uniform convergence of (fngn)? Answer. Notice that the limiting function 1/x above was not bounded (though the limit of the gn obviously is). Here’s the modified claim: Suppose fn → f uniforml...

Insulin resistance in skeletal muscle is found in obesity and type 2 diabetes. A mechanism for impaired insulin signaling in peripheral tissues is the inhibition of insulin action through serine phosphorylation of insulin receptor substrate (Irs) proteins that abolish the coupling of Irs proteins to the activated insulin receptor. Recently, we described serine-318 as a protein kinase C (PKC)-de...

This study examined the relationship between birth weight and growth performance when suckling piglets were reared in litters standardized by birth weight. Forty-four gilts (Landrace × Large White) due to farrow during the same week were selected. Piglets born to those gilts were individually weighed at birth and cross-fostered to obtain litters with 11 piglets and standardized birth weight (CV...

A lower BMR of Indians, when compared with Westerners matched for age, sex and either surface area or body weight, has often been reported in the literature and has been interpreted to reflect an ethnic influence on BMR. To determine the contribution of body composition to these observed differences in BMR, we analysed the data on ninety-six Indians and eighty-one Caucasian Australians of both ...