475 August 2015 Anesthesiology, V 123 • No 2 475 August 2015 FFor many generations, people have posed the question, “What would you do if you had one day left to live?” Of course, this kind of question often leads to more questions about how to spend that day. “Who would you call to say goodbye? Would you make one last visit to family to say I love you? Would you try to reconnect with those wit...

Drought stress is one of the major environmental factors severely restricting plant development and productivity. Acer truncatum B, which an economically important tree species, highly tolerant to drought conditions, but underlying molecular regulatory mechanisms remain relatively unknown. In this study, A. seedlings underwent a treatment (water withheld for 0, 3, 7, 12 days), after they were r...

The compensatory growth, proximate composition and amino acid contents changes of young yellow catfish (Pelteobagrus fulvidraco R.) (1.63-1.69 g) had been investigated using a 45-day cyclic feed deprivation and re-feeding experiment. The control group (S0) was fed daily with live tubificid worms (Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri), while the S1/4, S1/2, and S1/1 groups cyclically experienced one-day of ...

Embolism formation and spread are dependent on conduit structure and xylem network connectivity. Detailed spatial analysis has been limited due to a lack of non-destructive methods to visualize these processes in living plants. We used synchrotron X-ray computed tomography (microCT) to visualize these processes in vivo for Juglans microcarpa Berl. saplings subjected to drought, and also evaluat...