Device description Name and manufacture: HighLife SAS, Paris, France. Approval status: Preclinical. Platform: Nitinol. Specific design: The HighLife transcatheter mitral valve replacement device is a two-component system (Figure 1). The valve prosthesis is implanted over a delivery system in the mitral position and is anchored by interacting and then reaching an equilibrium position with a prev...

Soybean (Glycine max) plants accumulate a vacuolar glycoprotein in the parenchymal cells of leaves, petioles, stems, seed pods, and germinating cotyledons that acts in temporary nitrogen storage during vegetative growth. In situ immunolocalization of this vegetative storage protein (VSP) revealed that it accumulates in those parenchymal cells in close proximity to existing and developing vascul...

While the metabolic networks in developing seeds during the period of reserve accumulation have been extensively characterized, much less is known about those present during seed desiccation and subsequent germination. Here we utilized metabolite profiling, in conjunction with selective mRNA and physiological profiling to characterize Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) seeds throughout developm...

Background: The interaction of ethanol consumption and sexual behavior has been evaluated over the past three decades; however, some studies have assessed how ethanol consumption affects the general behavioral aspects of the copulatory cycle patterns in male rats. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of chronic ethanol consumption on adult male Wistar rats' sexual motivation and ...

Replacement of cement with supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) is a proven method to reduce clinker in and contribute decreased CO2 emissions. Natural clays are commonly occurring that do not possess pozzolanic activity their original state. Mechanochemical activation (MCA) can be an alternative sustainable enhance reactivity. In this study, the reactivity three natural clays, originati...

PURPOSE This was a prospective case-control study conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the Tear Stability Analysis System (TSAS) for the assessment of patients with dry eye. METHODS The TSAS can take 10 consecutive corneal topograms at one per second for 10 seconds. Examinations using the TSAS were conducted in 26 eyes of 26 healthy control subjects and in 27 eyes of 27 patients with dr...

The mechanical state encoded by slowly adapting type 1 mechanoreceptors (SAI) during indentation was examined using an isolated preparation in a rat model. Skin and its intact innervation were harvested from the medial thigh of the rat hindlimb and placed in a dish, with the corium side down, containing synthetic interstitial fluid. The margins of the skin were coupled to an apparatus that coul...

It has been proposed that abscisic acid (ABA) may stimulate sucrose transport into filling seeds of legumes, potentially regulating seed growth rate. The objective of this study was to determine whether the rate of dry matter accumulation in seeds of soybeans (Glycine max L.) is correlated with the endogenous levels of ABA and sucrose in those sinks. The levels of ABA and sucrose in seed tissue...

Welsh onion (Allium fistulosum L.) is one of the important vegetable crops in China. However, the seeds of this crop are short-lived and their vitality tends to be easily lost in the course of storage. The present study was conducted to elucidate the effects of welsh onion seed priming with potassium nitrate (KNO3) on seed vigor and on other such related mechanisms during twelve months of stora...