Debra Boyd-Kimball, Rukhsana Sultana, H. Fai Poon, Hafiz Mohmmad-Abdul, Bert C. Lynn, Jon B. Klein, and D. Allan Butterfield* Department of Chemistry, Center for Membrane Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky Core Proteomics Laboratory, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky Kidney Disease Program an...

This month is the first anniversary of the 7.6 Richter earthquake which struck Pakistan on 8 October 2005. The medical community’s response to this tragedy was overwhelming. In the hardest hit areas — Bagh, Balakot, Mansehra and Muzaffarabad — there were no hospitals, clinics or trauma centers within 80 km. Initial estimates suggested a death toll of 70 000 with over 150 000 injured. In the fir...

The white-edge freshwater whip ray Himantura signifer can survive in freshwater (0.7 per thousand ) indefinitely or in brackish water (20 per thousand ) for at least two weeks in the laboratory. In freshwater, the blood plasma was maintained hyperosmotic to that of the external medium. There was approximately 44 mmol l(-1) of urea in the plasma, with the rest of the osmolality made up mainly by...

A phylogenetic analysis of 14 genera of the family Goneplacidae MacLeay (Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthoidea) is presented based upon 45 adult morphological characters. Two most-parsimonious trees were obtained (length = 87, CI = 0.6667, RI = 0.8242, RC = 0.5495). The present analysis suggests that the Goneplacidae is divided into six subfamilies: Carinocarcinoidinae subfam. nov., Chasmocarcininae ...

To test the hypothesis that the preference for ketone bodies rather than lipids as oxidative fuel in elasmobranchs evolved in response to the appearance of urea-based osmoregulation, we measured total non-esterified fatty acids (NEFA) in plasma as well as maximal activities of enzymes of intermediary metabolism in tissues from marine and freshwater elasmobranchs, including: the river stingray P...

During the Sporadic E Experiment over Kyushu 2 (SEEK-2) campaign, field-aligned irregularities (FAIs) associated with midlatitude sporadic-E (Es) layers were observed with two backscatter radars, the Lower Thermosphere Profiler Radar (LTPR) and the Frequency Agile Radar (FAR), which were located 40 km apart in Tanegashima, Japan. We conducted observations of FAI echoes from 31 July to 24 August...

Reviewers Neil Aaronson, PhD, The Netherlands Sandra Albuquerque, MS, Brazil Jordi Alonso, MD, PhD, Spain Mohsen Asadi-Lari, MD, UK Keiko Asakawa, MA, MBA, Japan Heather-Jane Au, FRCP, MPH, Canada Karine Azevedo Sao Leao Ferreira, Brazil Carola Bardage, PhD, Sweden Judith Barr, ScD, USA Rick Berzon, DrPH, USA Andrew Bottomley, PhD, Belgium Serge BrianÅon, MD, France David Cella, PhD, USA Ali Ch...