In the present study, we have used single chicken blastoderms of defined early developmental stages, beginning with the prestreak stage, stage 1 (V. Hamburger and H. L. Hamilton, J. Morphol. 88:49-92, 1951), to analyze the onset of cardiac myogenesis by monitoring the appearance of selected cardiac muscle tissue-specific gene transcripts and the functional expression of the myocyte enhancer fac...

Metal-enhanced fluorescence (MEF) and delayed fluorescence (alpha α-S1) studies of acriflavin have been undertaken using steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence measurements on silver island films (SiFs) supporting a thin poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) polymer film. Nearly a 3.5-fold enhancement in the far-field fluorescence intensity of acriflavin is observed coupled with a decrease in decay ti...

Laminopathies comprise a group of inherited diseases with variable clinical phenotypes, caused by mutations in the lamin A/C gene (LMNA). A prominent feature in several of these diseases is muscle wasting, as seen in Emery-Dreifuss muscle dystrophy, dilated cardiomyopathy and limb-girdle muscular dystrophy. Although the mechanisms underlying this phenotype remain largely obscure, two major work...

Exploiting 2D materials for spintronic applications can potentially realize next-generation devices featuring low power consumption and quantum operation capability. The magnetic exchange field (MEF) induced by an adjacent magnetic insulator enables efficient control of local spin generation and spin modulation in 2D devices without compromising the delicate material structures. Using graphene ...

The recent surge in interest in the metal-enhanced fluorescence MEF phenomenon and its numerous applications in the biosciences has fueled research into identifying alternative metals to silver which have desirable properties, such as enhanced emission and fluorophore photostability. In this paper, we subsequently study and reveal that tin nanodeposits are a suitable metal for MEF with an elect...

During the last two decades, growing rates of erythromycin resistance have been reported in many countries among both Streptococcus pyogenes (29) and Streptococcus pneumoniae (63) clinical isolates. This trend was partly due to a further spread of the conventional methylase-mediated target site modification mechanism of resistance, but to an even greater extent it reflected the emergence of an ...

We aim to report the accuracy of linking data from a non‐government‐held clinical quality registry national claims and identify associated sources systematic bias. Patients with stroke or transient ischaemic attack admitted hospitals participating in Australian Stroke Clinical Registry (AuSCR) were linked Medicare medication dispensings through enrolment file (MEF). The proportion registrants d...

Chemically fixed mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs), instead of live feeder cells, were applied to the maintenance of mouse induced pluripotent stem (miPS) cells. Formaldehyde and glutaraldehyde were used for chemical fixation. The chemically fixed MEF feeders maintained the pluripotency of miPS cells, as well as their undifferentiated state. Furthermore, the chemically fixed MEF feeders were r...

Recently, the influence of thermal processes on electrophysiology has clearly been underlined by Bini et al. [2], using a FitzHugh–Nagumo-type (FHN-type) model. When the temperature is raised, the action potential duration (APD) has been shown to shorten, while the action potential (AP) amplitude decreases, and the conduction velocity increases [2]. In the present study, we investigate the effe...

Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) is a fatal demyelinating disease caused by cytolytic destruction of oligodendrocytes, the myelin-producing cells of the central nervous system, by the human neurotropic JC virus (JCV). The early protein of JCV, T antigen, which is produced at the early stage of infection, is important for orchestrating the events leading to viral lytic infection ...