Baylisascaris procyonis is a roundworm of the raccoon found primarily in North America but also known to occur in other parts of the world including South America, Europe, and Japan. Migration of the larvae of this parasite is recognized as a cause of clinical neural larva migrans (NLM) in humans, primarily children. It is manifested as meningoencephalitis associated with marked eosinophilia of...

Hookworm-related Cutaneous Larva Migrans (HrCLM) is a pruritic serpiginous cutaneous eruption caused by animal hookworms commonly found in tropical and subtropical areas, especially the Southeastern United States. We describe here a very exceptional HrCLM case showing multiple larva entries/lesions in a 63-yearold white male living in Miami. Clinically he presented with multiple pruritic erythe...

While the incidence ofmany parasitic diseases has decreased because of the development of anthelmintics and environmental hygiene, infection by Trichuris still occurs. This parasite exhibits some special parasitological and clinical features. Beaver et al introduced the term visceral larva migrans in the case of toxocariasis.' While the visceral larva migrans syndrome has been reported to be ca...

First stage larva of the lobster shrimp Allaxius princeps (Boas, 1880) (Decapoda: Axiidea: Axiidae) obtained from the ovigerous female is described and illustrated for the first time. It is the first description of the larva of lobster shrimp from West Pacific. Zoea I of A. princeps is characterized by the presence of four dorsal spines on the pleonal somites 2–5 and by the shape of the telson ...

Ophthalmomyiasis rarely occurs worldwide, and has not been reported in Korea. We present here a case of ophthalmomyiasis caused by Phormia sp. fly larva in an enucleated eye of a patient. In June 2010, a 50-year-old man was admitted to Dankook University Hospital for surgical excision of a malignant melanoma located in the right auricular area. He had a clinical history of enucleation of his ri...

Taurine is an important amino acid for the growth of marine fish larvae The humpback grouper (Cromileptes altivelis) a highly valuable that has been farmed in hactheries. increasing larval and survival rate was carried out by taurine addition as enrichment ingredient to zooplankton live feed larvae. purpose this study find role on rate. Two treatments tested were bioencapsulated through rotifer...

The reconstruction of neural activity across complete neural circuits, or brain activity mapping, has great potential in both fundamental and translational neuroscience research. Larval zebrafish, a vertebrate model, has recently been demonstrated to be amenable to whole brain activity mapping in behaving animals. Here we demonstrate a microfluidic array system ("Fish-Trap") that enables high-t...

Male swordtail fish of the genus Xiphophorus (Poeciliidae) possess a "sword" that is composed of several colored elongated ventral fin rays of the caudal fin. The sword is a secondary sexual trait that evolved through sexual selection by female preference. To uncover the developmental mechanisms underlying the metamorphosis from a juvenile caudal fin to the sword, we have devised a transplantat...

Zebrafish is a widely used animal model with well-characterized background in developmental biology. The fate of human adipose-derived stem cells (ADSCs) after their xenotransplantation into the developing embryos of zebrafish is unknown. Therefore, human ADSCs were firstly isolated, and then transduced with lentiviral vector system carrying a green fluorescent protein (GFP) reporter gene, and ...