Thymosins have been highly conserved during evolution. These hormones exist in many animal species and play an essential role in many biological events. However, little is known regarding the physiological function of silkworm Bombyx mori thymosin (BmTHY). In this study, we investigated the expression pattern of BmTHY in a Bombyx mori larval ovarian cell line (BmN) challenged with Bombyx mori n...

97 Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome is generally a rare multisystemic autoimmune disorder involving with pigmented structures, such as the eye, meninges, inner ear and skin. The syndrome typically presents as an episode of bilateral panuveitis after prodromal symptoms similar to aseptic meningitis. Auditory disturbances include tinnitus, hearing loss and vertigo. We report the case of a 74-year-ol...

The objectives of this cross-sectional study were to identify the prevalence of soil-transmitted helminth infection in the rural population of Bali and its relation to age, gender, and geoclimatic conditions. The subjects of study were derived from four villages of different geoclimatic conditions, namely wet lowland, dry lowland, wet highland and dry highland, by a multistage, stratified rando...

In this paper, we study the transfer of some $t$-locally properties which are stable under localization to $t$-flat overrings an integral domain $D$. We show that $D,$ $D[X],$ $D\langle X\rangle,$ $D(X)$ and $D[X]_{N_v}$ simultaneously P$v$MDs (resp., Krull, G-GCD, Noetherian, Strong Mori). A complete characterization when a pullback is P$v$MD GCD, Mori, Mori) given. As corollaries, investigate...

The mass rearing of parasitoids represents a fundamental stage for programmes of biological control. The progeny of the parasitoid Palmistichus elaeisis Delvare and LaSalle (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) were evaluated on previously refrigerated pupae of Bombyx mori L. (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae). Forty-eight to 72 hours-old pupae of B. mori were stored at 10 degrees C for five, 10, 15 or 20 days and ...

V-ATPase plays a central role in lepidopteran midgut ion transport physiology, and lepidopteran midgut turned out to be a model tissue for the study of V-ATPase. In the present study, the 5'-RACE method is used to obtain the 5'-UTR of V-ATPase c subunit gene from Bombyx mori. Sequence analysis of the promoter region and 3'-UTR of V-ATPase c subunit gene revealed that the transcription of the V-...

Moths produce species-specific sex pheromones to attract conspecific mates. The biochemical processes that comprise sex pheromone biosynthesis are precisely regulated and a number of gene products are involved in this biosynthesis and regulation. In recent years, at least 300 EST clones have been isolated from Bombyx mori pheromone gland (PG) specific cDNA libraries with some of those clones [i...