Polymorphisms of human genes encoding 5-hydroxytriptamine (serotonin) receptors (5-HTRs) are thought to be associated with psychiatric disorders and behavioral traits. In the present study, we searched for corresponding polymorphisms in the dog and compared allelic frequencies for the canine 5-HTR1B, 5-HTR2A, and 5-HTR2C genes among five canine breeds. The canine genes consisted of the followin...

Held et al. (1979) Vision Res. 19, 1377-1379, reported that infants' psychometric functions in preferential looking experiments exhibit a region of below chance performance or "negative preference". They argued from this that previous preferential looking experiments may have systematically underestimated acuity because they ignored this negative preference. We present data from an experiment d...

1051-1377/$ see front matter 2005 Published by Elsevier Inc. doi:10.1016/j.jhe.2005.07.001 q We are grateful to Fern Silva for her support of this research project and Pedro Llambias and Patricio Limardo for answering numerous questions about mortgage banking and the financial crisis in Argentina. We thank Linda Allen, Brent Ambrose, Maite Bertolini, Leonard Nakamura, Jim Papadonis, Bertrand Re...

RNA-protein cross-links were introduced into E. coli 30S ribosomal subunits by reaction with 2-iminothiolane followed by a mild ultraviolet irradiation treatment. After removal of non-reacted protein and partial nuclease digestion of the cross-linked 16S RNA-protein moiety, a number of individual cross-linked complexes could be isolated and the sites of attachment of the proteins to the RNA det...

1051-1377/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier Inc doi:10.1016/j.jhe.2008.09.003 1 I would like to thank Yan Chang, Ed Golding, Dou Visini for their comments and assistance. For this an American Core Logic’s Loan Performance was used u E-mail address: [email protected] We now know that the subprime market presented consumers with sub-optimal choices that they took, and that it contained many ...

We performed a randomised, crossover study to investigate the effects of intravenous sedation on grip strength and bite force. Twenty male volunteers received a bolus intravenous injection of midazolam (0.02 mg.kg(-1)) together with a 30-min propofol infusion designed to achieve an effect-site concentration of 1.0 μg.ml(-1). Observed variables included bispectral index, observer's assessment of...

The florentine Tommaso Cassai (1401-c.1427) 1 better known as Masaccio, has been hailed as the first great painter of the Italian Renaissance and his fresco Trinity (c.1425, Santa Maria Novella, Florence) as the first work of Western art that used full perspective. It appears that the author was inspired and actually helped by his friend Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446), the celebrated architec...