In most jawed vertebrates including cartilaginous fish, membrane-bound IgM is expressed as a five Ig superfamily (Igsf)-domain H chain attached to a transmembrane (Tm) region. Heretofore, bony fish IgM was the one exception with IgM mRNA spliced to produce a four-domain Tm H chain. We now demonstrate that the Tm and secretory (Sec) mRNAs of the novel cartilaginous fish Ig isotypes, IgW and IgNA...

Rudimentary horn is one of the rarest congenital uterine anomalies and consists of a relatively normal appearing uterus on one side with a rudimentary horn on the other side. It is difficult to diagnose before surgery and hazardous to maternal life as rupture of pregnant horn result in severe hemoperitoneum. Case of rudimentary horn pregnancy is reported in a lady with history of habitual abort...

The ared horn is modeled assuming that Webster's horn equation is satis ed. Any shape can be assumed for the wavefront within the horn. This paper presents a technique for solving Webster's horn equation as follows: The equation is converted to the form of the Schrodinger wave equation used for one-dimensional particle scattering. The horn characteristics can then be obtained directly in terms...

2 Introduction Cartilaginous fishes (Chondrichthyes) are the most basal extant jawed vertebrates that diverged from the common ancestor of tetrapods and teleost fishes (Osteichthyes) approximately 530 Myr ago (Kumar and Hedges, 1998; Fig.1). Cartilaginous fishes possess a body plan and complex physiological systems that are typical of all jawed vertebrates, but are lacking in the jawless verteb...

A rectangular pyramidal horn antenna fabricated with tapered dielectric E-plane boundary walls whose inner surface is periodically loaded with thin conducting strips is investigated. For better impedance matching, at the throat region of the horn antenna, 3 cm portion is metallised. The radiation characteristics of this horn antenna are compared with that of an identical conventional horn anten...

We present a new formalism, Horn Disjunctive Linear Relations (Horn DLRs), for reasoning about temporal constraints. We prove that deciding satissabil-ity of sets of Horn DLRs is polynomial by exhibiting an algorithm based upon linear programming. Furthermore , we prove that most other approaches to tractable temporal constraint reasoning can be encoded as Horn DLRs, including the ORD-Horn alge...

A screen for mutations affecting flower formation was carried out and several filamentous flower (fil) alleles were identified. In fil mutants, floral primordia occasionally give rise to pedicels lacking flowers at their ends. This defect is dramatically enhanced in fil rev double mutants, in which every floral primordium produces a flowerless pedicel. These data suggest that the FIL and REV ge...

We searched for bioactive substances involved in flower bud formation of Arabidopsis thaliana. some significantly decreasing HPLC peaks were detected in the extract of flower buds-forming A. thaliana compared with that of the non-flower bud-forming stage. Compound 1, which corresponded to the most decreased HPLC peak, was isolated from aerial parts of A. thaliana. From NmR and ms data, compound...