HAIRS UPON THE TONGUE.

Switchable Wettability of the Honeybee's Tongue Surface Regulated by Erectable Glossal Hairs.

Various nectarivorous animals apply bushy-hair-equipped tongues to lap nectar from nectaries of flowers. A typical example is provided by the Italian honeybee (Apis mellifera ligustica), who protracts and retracts its tongue (glossa) through a temporary tube, and actively controls the erectable glossal hairs to load nectar. We first examined the microstructure of the honeybee's glossal surface,...

Root hairs.

Roots hairs are cylindrical extensions of root epidermal cells that are important for acquisition of nutrients, microbe interactions, and plant anchorage. The molecular mechanisms involved in the specification, differentiation, and physiology of root hairs in Arabidopsis are reviewed here. Root hair specification in Arabidopsis is determined by position-dependent signaling and molecular feedbac...

Splitting hairs ∗

Besides conjoining an assertion into the common ground (Stalnaker 1978), another kind of move that we often propose and accept in discourse is to change our notion of what is a thing and what is the same thing. For example, depending on how a conversation goes, in the middle of it we might start treating ‘a’ and ‘A’ as different letters, while preserving our common knowledge that it is a vowel....

New trichoscopy findings in trichotillomania: flame hairs, V-sign, hook hairs, hair powder, tulip hairs.

Differential diagnosis of trichotillomania is often difficult in clinical practice. Trichoscopy (hair and scalp dermoscopy) effectively supports differential diagnosis of various hair and scalp diseases. The aim of this study was to assess the usefulness of trichoscopy in diagnosing trichotillomania. The study included 370 patients (44 with trichotillomania, 314 with alopecia areata and 12 with...

How is the Mother Tongue Acquired