An investigation was carried out during April to December 2000 to study mosquito fauna and ecology in Guilan Province of northern Iran. The mosquito larvae were collected by dipping method and larval habitat characteristics recorded according to hydro-ecological features. In total, 3937 larvae of the genus Culex from 92 larval breeding sites were collected. Six species of the genus Culex; Cx. m...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether high-density lipoproteins (HDLs) suppress chemokine (CCL2, CCL5, and CX(3)CL1) and chemokine receptor (CCR2 and CX(3)CR1) expression, a mechanism for the atheroprotective properties of HDLs. METHODS AND RESULTS Apolipoprotein (apo) E(-/-) mice were fed a high-fat diet for 12 weeks. Before being euthanized, the mice received 5 consecutive daily injections of li...

Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology. Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Ramiro de Maetzu 9. 28040 Madrid, Spain Department of Cell Biology and Institute of Biomembranes, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX Utrecht, The Netherlands INSERM U845, Necker Growth and Signaling Research Center Université Paris Desc...

Funding for this project was provided by a grant from the Justice Research and Statistics Association (JRSA) as part of cooperative agreement number 98-BJ-CX-K019 between JRSA and the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics. Additional funding was provided under a grant from the Vermont Center for Victim Services. The findings and opinions expressed in this document are those o...

Hesson, J. C. 2014. Clearing up Culex Confusion. A Basis for Virus Vector Discrimination in Europe. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology 1185. 56 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9044-7. Mosquito species of the Culex genus are the enzootic vectors for several bird-associated viruses that cause disease in ...

The chemopreventive effects of two xanthophylls, astaxanthin (AX) and canthaxanthin (CX) on oral carcinogenesis induced by 4-nitroquinoline 1-oxide (4-NQO) was investigated in male F344 rats. Rats were given 20 ppm of 4-NQO in their drinking water for 8 weeks to induce oral neoplasms or preneoplasms. Animals were fed diets containing 100 ppm AX or CX during the initiation or postinitiation phas...

PURPOSE Recent investigations have revealed that populations of macrophages and dendritic cells (DCs) are present in the stroma and epithelium of the cornea, although the precise phenotype and distribution are still controversial. CX(3)CR1, the sole receptor for the chemokine fractalkine, is expressed by these monocyte-derived cells. Transgenic CX(3)CR1(GFP) mice, in which either one (heterozyg...

The siphon indices, branching of setae 5-C and 6-C, lengths of 5-C compared to the lengths of 6-C, length of the most proximal seta 1-S compared to the siphon length, and the occurrence of a paler abdominal segment IV were compared among Culex apicalis, Cx. boharti and Cx. territans larvae. These characters in Cx. territans were found to be much more variable than previously recognized, and oft...

3. Since Lp and Lr are subspaces of CX , their intersection is a vector space. It is clear that ‖ · ‖ is a norm (this follows directly from the fact that ‖ · ‖p and ‖ · ‖r are norms). Let 〈fn〉n=1 be a Cauchy sequence in Lp ∩ Lr. Since ‖fm − fn‖p ≤ ‖fm − fn‖ and ‖fm − fn‖r ≤ ‖fm − fn‖ for all m,n ∈ N, it is clear that 〈fn〉n=1 is a Cauchy sequence in both Lp and Lr. Let gp ∈ Lp and gr ∈ Lr be the...

Reuse of semiconductor IP modules is widely perceived as a means to overcome the design gap [1], enabling the development of complex systems-on-chip under narrow manpower and time-tomarket constraints. However, for the IP business to be a success, many requirements related to the portability, maintainability, and quality of an IP module must be met. This paper presents an automated flow that ad...