BACKGROUND To date, diagnosis of Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD) remains difficult and challenging. We systematically evaluated the diagnostic performance of nasal Nitric Oxide (nNO) measurement for the detection of PCD, using either velum-closure (VC) or non-velum-closure (non-VC) techniques. METHODS All major electronic databases were searched from inception until March 2015 using appropri...

Previous studies on synesthesia have suggested non-random association between sounds of linguistic units and colors (Asano & Yokosawa, 2011; 2012; Shin & Kim, 2014). A work in our group also showed that graphemes sharing phonetic rules–i.e., the place and the manner of articulation –tend to induce similar synesthetic colors across multiple languages (Kang et al., ASSC 2014). In the present stud...

Three strains (VPAP16, VPAP18 and VPAP23 strains) were isolated as the most predominant organisms from 3 different episodes of massive mortalities of larval cultures of the Chilean scallop Argopecten purpuratus occurred in different commercial hatcheries located in northern Chile. The main aims of this study were to identify the pathogenic strains and investigate their pathogenic activity. Base...

Short-survival thymidine radiograms from rat embryos aged 13-19 days were analyzed to delineate the precerebellar neuroepithelium of the rhombencephalon. The original definition of the term "rhombencephalon" was modified to refer only to the unique dorsal portion (surface plate) of the medulla and pons where the neural groove fails to fuse and, instead, the medullary velum covers the rhomboid l...

Cocconeis dapalistriata, first described as a member of the genus Cocconeis, is re-examined due to its unique ultrastructure. Both valvocopulae this taxon show significant differences compared those found in Cocconeis. They are expanded and some similarities with Amphicocconeis. On other hand, terminal parts raphe valve (RV) C. dapalistriata simple striae composed small round areolae hymenate o...

Flor yeast strains represent a specialized group of Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeasts used for the production sherry-like wines by biological wine aging. We sequenced genome industrial flor strain I-329 from collection microorganisms winemaking “Magarach” and metagenomes two velums based on this continuously maintained several decades. The winery uses processes wine: batch aging continuous proces...

Captive breeding, spawning and larval development of endangered gastropod, horse conch, Pleuroploca trapezium (Linnaeus, 1758) was studied reported from Thoothukudi, Southeast coast India for the first time. Wild collected brooders P. were spawned after 10 months rearing under captivity as a cluster egg cases on wall tank also above shell other conch. Each case had 150 to 460 numbers eggs. The ...