In many non-Western societies, moderate to high levels of body fat in women have long been equated with health, physical attractiveness, social status, and fertility. In recent times, however, many Western cultures have emphasized the idea that slender women are most attractive. This emphasis on thinness has led to increased levels of body dissatisfaction and dieting in Western cultures and in ...

Kelley and Morton (J. Bacteriol., 67, 129, 1954) and Smith (Appl. Microbiol., 4, 254, 1956) observed that use of colony counts or turbidimetric methods of counting pleuropneumonialike organisms are difficult at best. In some studies on the limitations of "coding" of DNA (Morowitz and Cleverdon, Biochim. et Biophys. Acta, 34, 578, 1959), we repeatedly used the Bausch and Lomb Spectronic 20 at 62...

objective(s): throughout evolution, mammalians have increasingly lost their ability to regenerate structures however rabbits are exceptional since they develop a blastema in their ear wound for regeneration purposes. blastema consists of a group of undifferentiated cells capable of dividing and differentiating into the ear tissue. the objective of the present study is to isolate, culture expand...