Taste buds and papillae in tongues of rhesus monkeys were examined and counted to determine if there are age-related differences in general morphology or numbers of receptor organs. Tongues from 15 monkeys in five groups aged 4-31 years were studied with light microscopy. Fungiform, circumvallate, and foliate papillae were examined and taste buds in each papilla type were counted. Numbers of pa...

SYNOPSIS The effects of nursery practices on freeze tolerance of P taeda and P elliottii seedlings were examined by placing the seedlings in a freezing chamber and lowering the temperature to -10C. Injury was evaluated 10 days after the freeze treatment by examining cambial tissue (browning test). Top-pruning P taeda seedlings (three times) increased freeze tolerance while rootwrenching (six ti...

Rafflesia is a biologically enigmatic species that is very rare in occurrence and possesses an extraordinary morphology. This parasitic plant produces a gigantic flower up to one metre in diameter with no leaves, stem or roots. However, little is known about the floral biology of this species especially at the molecular level. In an effort to address this issue, we have generated and characteri...

BACKGROUND Many studies have demonstrated the efficacy of budesonide/formoterol (BUD/FORM) for Maintenance and Reliever Therapy (SMART®) for asthma control. However, there are concerns regarding its over-use and effectiveness. OBJECTIVE To examine asthma control and over-use of BUD/FORM in real-life situations. METHODS This study was a hospital-based cross-sectional and multi-center design....

Bursa of Fabricius is a primary lymphoid organ in the birds and its microenvironment is responsible for the B cell maturation. The epithelial anlage develops through epithelial-mesenchymal interaction into which -as a third party - hemopoietic cells immigrate. Chemical bursectomy can be made by dipping or injecting eggs by testosterone solution. Both methods of treatments compromise the develop...

Lipid droplets (LDs) are ubiquitous organelles that store neutral lipids, such as triacylglycerol (TG), as reservoirs of metabolic energy and membrane precursors. The Arf1/COPI protein machinery, known for its role in vesicle trafficking, regulates LD morphology, targeting of specific proteins to LDs and lipolysis through unclear mechanisms. Recent evidence shows that Arf1/COPI can bud nano-LDs...

Actin cables, bundles of actin filaments that align along the long axis of budding yeast, are crucial for establishment of cell polarity. We fused green fluorescent protein (GFP) to actin binding protein 140 (Abp140p) and visualized actin cable dynamics in living yeast. We detected two populations of actin cables: (i) bud-associated cables, which extend from the bud along the mother-bud axis, a...

Scatter factor/hepatocyte growth factor (SF/HGF) is known to be involved in the detachment of myogenic precursor cells from the lateral dermomyotomes and their subsequent migration into the newly formed limb buds. As yet, however, nothing has been known about the role of the persistent expression of SF/HGF in the limb bud mesenchyme during later stages of limb bud development. To test for a pot...

During postnatal development, a relationship is established between the size of individual taste buds and number of innervating neurons. To determine whether rearrangement of neurons that innervate taste buds establishes this relationship, we labeled single taste buds at postnatal day 10 (P10) and again at either P15, P20, or P40 with retrograde fluorescent neuronal tracers. The number of singl...

Mouth washing after inhalation of corticosteroids is effective for prevention of local adverse effects. We determined the amounts of drug residues remaining on the oropharyngeal mucosa following inhalation of budesonide (BUD) via a Turbuhaler (BUD-TH) (100 microg). Further, we studied the effects of mouth washing on the removal of drug residues by quantification of BUD in expectorated wash solu...