AIM To characterize the feasibility of the surgical replacement of the penile tunica albuginea (TA) and to evaluate the value of a porcine bladder acellular matrix (BAM) graft. METHODS Acellular matrices were constructed from pigs' bladders by cell lysis, and then examined by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Expression levels of the mRNA of the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) rec...

The CLAVATA3 (CLV3)-CLAVATA1 (CLV1) ligand-receptor kinase pair negatively regulates shoot stem cell proliferation in plants. clv1 null mutants are weaker in phenotype than clv3 mutants, but the clv1 null phenotype is enhanced by mutations in the related receptor kinases BARELY ANY MERISTEM 1, 2 and 3 (BAM1, 2 and 3). The basis of this genetic redundancy is unknown. Here, we demonstrate that th...

Soil beneath a stormwater infiltration basin receiving runoff from a 23 ha predominantly residential watershed in north-central Florida, USA, was amended using biosorption activated media (BAM) to study the effectiveness of this technology in reducing inputs of nitrogen and phosphorus to groundwater. The functionalized soil amendment BAM consists of a 1.0:1.9:4.1 mixture (by volume) of tire cru...

Background and AimsBile acid malabsorption (BAM) is a debilitating disease characterized by loose stools high stool frequency. The pathophysiology of BAM not well-understood. We investigated postprandial enterohepatic gluco-metabolic physiology, as well gut microbiome composition fecal bile content in patients with BAM.MethodsTwelve participants selenium-75 homocholic taurine test–verified 12 h...

The fabrication of bio-composite-derived bovine amniotic membrane (BAM) with hydroxyapatite (HAp) is an approach to combining organic and inorganic bio-material improve the properties both materials. This research aims combine, fabricate characterise bio-composite BAM–HA. combination made from BAM HAp in a ratio 30:70, 35:65, 40:60. Dried immersed saline then blended until it forms slurry jelly...

Bile Acid Induced Diarrhoea Pathophysiological and Clinical Aspects Antal Bajor Department of Internal Medicine Institute of Medicine at Sahlgrenska Academy University of Gothenburg Sweden A common cause for referral to gastroenterologists is chronic watery diarrhoea. Approximately 40% of these patients have idiopathic bile acid malabsorption (BAM) – a condition with unknown aetiology. The SeHC...

Motivation: The reference CRAM file format implementation is in Java. We present “Scramble”: a new C implementation of SAM, BAM and CRAM file I/O. Results: The C API for CRAM is 1.5–1.7x slower than BAM at decoding, but 1.8–2.6x faster at encoding. We see file size savings of 40–50%. Availability: Source code is available from http://sourceforge.net/ projects/staden/files/io lib/ Contact: jkb@s...

Rainbow trout and round goby were exposed for 30 days to waterborne and dietary Ni in combination at two waterborne concentration ranges (6.2-12 μmol/L, 68-86 μmol/L), the lower of which is typical of contaminated environments. The prey (black worms; Lumbriculus variegatus) were exposed for 48 h in the effluent of the fish exposure tanks before being fed to the fish (ration=2% body weight/day)....

Ovarian tumors are formed either in the absence of Bam (bag-of-marbles) in germ-line cells or the overexpression of Dpp (decapentaplegic) in ovarian somatic cells. These tumor cells contain spectrosomes characteristic of ovarian germ-line stem cells and the immediate descendents called cystoblasts. We show that pole cells can successfully populate the gonad after transplantation to the dorsal m...

Previous research has shown that Bidirectional Associative Memories (BAM), a special type of artificial neural network, can perform various types of associations that human beings are able to perform with little effort. However, considering a simple association problem, such as associating faces with names, iterative type BAM networks usually take hundreds and sometimes thousands of learning tr...