Cholecystokinin Facilitates Neuronal Excitability in the Entorhinal Cortex via Activation 1 of TRPC-like Channels 2 Shouping Wang, An-Ping Zhang, Lalitha Kurada, Toshimitsu Matsui and Saobo Lei 3 From Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Therapeutics, School of Medicine and 4 Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND58203, USA; Department of 5 Anesthesiology, Sun Yat-se...

Do E.A. Meyer’s tonal word accents contours from the Swedish dialects provide a reliable basis for quantitative analysis? Measurements made on acute and grave tone-peaks in a number of dialects spoken in the province of Dalarna suggested that the timing of grave tonal peaks tended to vary systematically from south-east to north-west. The former dialects had relatively late and the latter relati...

The present study sought to fill a research void on adolescent problem behaviours in South Africa by examining individual and contextual factors that affect sexual-risk taking behaviours amongst black African adolescents in a poor community of the North West Province of South Africa. Using the logistic and Poisson regression analytical techniques, we find that individual and contextual factors ...

Background: In many countries gastric cancer has the highest incidence among the gastrointestinal cancers and is the second most common cancer in Iran. The aim of this study was to identify and map high risk gastric cancer regions at the county-level in Iran. Methods: In this study we analyzed gastric cancer data for Iran in the years 2003-2010. Areato- area Poisson kriging and Besag, York and ...

Several studies were designed to address the gaps in the information concerning the socio-economic role of donkeys in communities in South Africa. One study was undertaken in the North-West Province during 1995 and another in the Eastern Cape during 1996. Methods used included semi-structured interviews and participatory appraisal techniques. Communities included were from semi-rural and rural ...

cavalry regiments against cholera may prove useful in the event of the disease making its appearance in any of the many theatres of war in which Indian troops are engaged. The inoculation was carried out at the end of the summer of 1015 in the Peshawar Valley with two Indian cavalry regiments from the same station, who. while engaged in the usual frontier work, had occasion to move freely over ...

The Neotropical genus Costitachys Erwin 1974 is revised. Newly discovered specimens of a new species of Costitachys from Ecuador provide comparative genitalic characters of males for the genus and extend its range 2900 km west of its previously known distribution into an additional center of species radiation in South America, the "North Andean Slope." A new species, Costitachys tena Erwin and ...