Mucins locate to the apical surfaces of all wet-surfaced epithelia including ocular surface. The functions of the mucins include anti-adhesive, lubrication, water retention, allergens and pathogen barrier function. Ocular surface pathologies, i.e. dry eye syndrome or allergic conjunctivitis, are reportedly associated with alteration of expression pattern of mucin components. Recent investigatio...

Using quail/chick chimeras, we have previously shown that different embryonic territories are vascularized through two distinct mecanisms, angiogenesis and vasculogenesis. Angiogenesis occurs in tissues of somatopleural origin, vasculogenesis occurs in territories of splanchnopleural origin. The aim of this work was to establish if these modes of vascularization were conserved in the mammalian ...

Cattle have emerged as one of the most important domestic animals widely used for meat, milk, and fur. Derivation bovine pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) can be applied in drug selecting human disease modeling facilitated agriculture-related applications such production genetically excellent cattle by gene editing. Extended PSCs (EPSCs), capable differentiating into embryonic extraembryonic parts,...

background: cryopreservation of mammalian ovaries has been reported with different levels of success. cryopreservation of ovarian tissue may be a potential alternative for treatment of infertility and many attempts have been done to improve the efficiency of ovarian cryopreservation. the objective of the present study was to compare the direct cover vitrification (dcv) with ethylene glycol (eg)...

the goal of this study was to investigate the common clinical chemistry and distribution of xanthine oxidase (xo) in selected tissues of a mouse model of menopause. twenty four nmri female mice were divided into three groups: normal control (nc), and ovariectomized (ovx) groups and an estrogen-treated ovariectomized (ovx+e) group which received subcutaneous injection of estradiol benzoate (2 mg...

Ghrelin, an n-octanoylated 28-amino-acid peptide capable of inducing GH secretion and food intake in humans and rats, is the endogenous ligand for the GH secretagogue receptor (GHS-R). Here we describe the expression and tissue distribution of the ghrelin/GHS-R axis in the mouse. We also report for the first time the identification of a novel mouse ghrelin mRNA variant in which there is a compl...