In 1885 Bradford replaced the atrophied eye of a 35-year-old sailor with the eyeball of a rabbit and reported a good cosmetic result without return of vision. Two years later May attempted, without success, to duplicate this result and conduded that the whole eyeball was too large a mass to transplant with the hope of retaining vitality in all of its parts. Gradually work turned from man to the...

Active peptide from shark liver (APSL) is a cytokine from Chiloscyllium plagiosum that can stimulate liver regeneration and protects the pancreas. To study the effect of orally administered recombinant APSL (rAPSL) on an animal model of type 2 diabetes mellitus, the APSL gene was cloned, and APSL was expressed in Bombyx mori N cells (BmN cells), silkworm larvae and silkworm pupae using the silk...

Abstract The Wax Lake Delta (WLD) is an actively prograding delta in the Mississippi River Plain that otherwise experiencing widespread degradation and submergence of its coastal wetlands. WLD accumulating mineral organic sediment increases soil surface elevation, changing emergent wetland communities as young develops. There uncertainty how dynamics community composition respond to net changes...