Ten-day-old chicks were continuously exposed to pure tones (500, I 500, or 3000 Hz) at 125 dB SPL for 12 hours and sacrificed 10 days after exposure. The basilar papillae were embedded in plastic, sectioned and hair cells were counted at ~OO-!Lm intervals throughout the length of the papilla. The position of hair cell loss along the basilar membrane varied systematically as a log-linear functio...

introduction: numerous studies have investigated the prevalence, incidence and clinical manifestations of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (gists). however, little is known about gists in iran. this pioneer study focuses on description of 36 patients with gists in iran. methods: a database was created for 36 patients suffering from gist who were treated in loghman medical center and tehran cance...

Scyphomedusae undergo a predictable ontogenetic transition from a conserved, universal larval form to a diverse array of adult morphologies. This transition entails a change in bell morphology from a highly discontinuous ephyral form, with deep clefts separating eight discrete lappets, to a continuous solid umbrella-like adult form. We used a combination of kinematic, modeling, and flow visuali...

470 Extracardiac endothelium patterns embryonic coronary arterio-venous connections JM. Perez-Pomares1; E. Cano2; R. Carmona1; A. Ruiz-Villalba3; A. Rojas4; Y-Y. Chau5; KD. Wagner6; N. Wagner6; ND. Hastie5; R. Munoz-Chapuli1 University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain; Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany; University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain; Centro Andaluz de Biologı́a Molecul...

Et Tu, Torsten? This critique of my Economic Policy paper generates many emotions. It is certainly an honor for my research to be taken seriously by such an eminent scholar as my friend Torsten Persson. And while any publicity is good, a negative citation dominates a positive one. There is irony; I came up with the original idea in a hallway conversation with Harry Flam a few feet from Persson’...

A traditional view of the nature of species holds that populations within species maintain genetic cohesion through substantial intraspecific gene flow and that the whole genome of a species is protected from interspecific gene flow by strong reproductive isolation. Both aspects of this view have been challenged. Reproductive barriers between recently evolved species can be incomplete and perme...