Theory development and empirical research conducted at the intersection of communication and public health are advancing both academic disciplines and accelerating progress toward important societal goals. An exciting emergent new research framework that combines key aspects of these 2 disciplinary perspectives has developed and become known as public health communication. This article examines...

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals is increasingly being accepted as a major development objective in Asian and Pacific countries. In this paper, it is argued that, in order to fulfill this objective, attention needs to be paid to the nexus between achieving the Goals and economic growth. Pro-growth MDGs are as important as pro-MDG growth. Appropriate macroeconomic and sectoral policies...

The paper examines the causal nexus between financial development, economic growth and poverty reduction in India during 1951-2008. The empirical analysis is based on cointegration and causality test. The cointegration test finds the presence of long run equilibrium relationship between financial development, economic growth and poverty reduction. The Granger causality test at the end confirms ...

Certain neurons in the mammalian brain have long been known to be joined by gap junctions, which are the most common type of electrical synapse. More recently, cloning of neuron-specific connexins, increased capability of visualizing cells within brain tissue, labeling of cell types by transgenic methods, and generation of connexin knockouts have spurred a rapid increase in our knowledge of the...

Fourteen Male Wistar rats were orally administered 20% ethanol ad libitum in place of water. After 1, 2, 3, 6 and 12 months of ethanol ingestion, the gap junctions of pancreatic acinar and ductal cells were observed by transparent electron microscopy. The result was compared with fifteen control animals. In the control, the ductal cells proved to have only small sized (0.1 micron in length) gap...

Almost since their discovery gap junctions have attracted attention as possible means by which cell growth and cell development could be controlled since they provide for direct cell-cell communication (Potter et al, 1966; Loewenstein, 1968; Sheridan, 1968; Crick, 1970; Bennett, 1973). A corollary, of course, is that gap junctions play an important role in embryogenesis. This idea is made espec...

Changes in intercellular junctional morphology associated with rat liver regeneration were examined in a freeze-fracture study. After a two-thirds partial hepatectomy, both gap junctions and zonulae occludentes were drastically altered. Between 0 and 20 h after partial hepatectomy, the junctions appeared virtually unchanged. 28 h after partial hepatectomy, however, the large gap junctions usual...

PURPOSE To determine the possible changes in the distribution of cholesterol in gap junction plaques during fiber cell differentiation and maturation in the embryonic chicken lens. The possible mechanism by which cholesterol is removed from gap junction plaques is also investigated. METHODS Filipin cytochemistry in conjunction with freeze-fracture TEM was used to visualize cholesterol, as rep...

Colonel Christopher P. Gibson is the current Director of Operations and Plans (G3) of the US Army’s 25th Infantry Division. He is a highly-decorated veteran of the First Gulf War, NATO peacekeeping operations in Kosovo and Operation Iraqi Freedom—where he commanded a battalion in Mosul. He was previously the Distinguished Honour Graduate of his Command and General Staff College class and holds ...