Direct communication between neighboring cells through connexin (Cx)-based gap junction is a crucial biolo-gical manner to regulate functions of a tissue consisting of multi-cell types. The present research evaluated expressional changes of Cx isoforms in the caput epididymis of adult rat exposed to estradiol benzoate (EB) or flutamide (Flu) at the early postnatal age. A single subcutaneous adm...

T he Presidential Address gave me an opportunity to pay tribute to my teacher, Rupert Billingham, by recounting the early history of transplantation. Informal conversations with Billingham during the six years I spent in his department and during a recent visit to his retirement home on Martha’s Vineyard provided me with some little known details of the story. Even ASTS members may not be famil...

AIM:To develop a safe and effective DNA vaccine for inducing humoral and cellular immunological responses against hepatitis B virus surface antigen (HBsAg).METHODS:BALB/c mice were inoculated with NV-HB/s, a recombinant plasmid that had been inserted S gene of hepatitis B virus genome and could express HBsAg in eukaryotes. HBsAg expression was measured by ABC immunohis tochemical assay, generat...

Osteosarcoma is the most common primary bone malignancy and primarily occurs in adolescents and young adults. Crude extract of Rheum palmatum L. (CERP) has been used as a traditional Chinese medicine for different diseases and there is experimental evidence that it may have anti-cancer effects. However, there is no information showing that CERP can affect the mobility of human osteosarcoma cell...

Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) is a rare disorder, although the exact prevalence is still unkown. It is a type of pancreatitis that is presumed to have an autoimmune aetiology, and is currently diagnosed based on a combination of 5 criteria. However, in this day and age, some patients with AIP are likely to be resected for the suspicion of malignancy. The authors report a case of pseudo-tumoral ...

tem (natural state), and on its basis concluded that a substantial we revise and expand our previous vapvertical permeability contrast must liq model of the Los Azufres hydrotherexist between the vaporand the limal system. We present data that delinquid-dominated layer, the smaller pereate the vertical distributions of the meability corresponding to the later. formation's thermal conductivity a...

B12A-0755. Langmuir, C. H., J. F. Bender, and R. Batiza (1986), Petrolo-gical and tectonic segmentation of the East Pacific Rise,5300–14 300N, Nature, 322, 422–429, doi:10.1038/ 322422a0.Leybourne, M. I., and N. A. Van Wagoner (1991), Heck and Heckle seamounts, northeast Pacific Ocean: High extrusionrates of primitive and highly depleted mid-ocean ridge basalt on off-ridge s...

The list of published geological reports on the IskutSulphurc& gold camp continues to grow. The regional geologic framework has been prcsentcd by Anderwn (IYXY), Anderson and Thorkelson (IYYO) and Anderson and Bevier (1990). The geology and mineralization of the Sulphurets, Unuk and Snippaker areas have been described in maps and repwts by Alldrick and Britton ( 1988). Alldrick rf ul. (IYXY, IY...

Fong Y, Sun RL, Jarnagin W, Blumgart LH. An analysis of 1. 412 cases of hepatocellular carcinoma at a Western center. Ann Surg 1999;229:790­9. Grazi GL, Ercolani G, Pierangeli F, et al. Improved results of 2. liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma on cirrhosis give the procedure added value. Ann Surg 2001;234:71­8. Nakashima Y, Nakashima O, Tanaka M, Okuda K, Nakashi­ 3. ma M, Kojiro M. P...

. The Eijkman test (1904) was originally introduced for the differentiation of 'faecal coli' from ' ajrogenes'. The experience gained in the jast few years has however shown that the test 18 not as valuable as it was at first supposed to be. Wilson (1935) has introduced Important modifications in the technique and has claimed that the modified test is of very considerable value in differentiati...