Unit for Human Reproduction, 1st Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, Department of Reproductive Medicine and Gynaecology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, Netherlands, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Division of Gynaecological Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine, University Clinic of Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lue...

Plasma thyroxine (T4), triiodothyronine (T3) and iodide levels were measured from birth until 30 days of age in 17 Holstein x Friesian (HF), 7 Salers and 7 Charolais calves born at term. The response of plasma T4 and T3 levels to bovine thyrotropin (TSH) injection was also compared in two groups of 9 HF calves 3hrs and 21 days, respectively, after birth. In the HF calves, plasma T4 and T3 level...

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Active joints Hypermobile robots: • Koryu-I and Koryu-II (Hirose, 1993) • Snake 2 (Klaassen and Paap, 1999) • Soryu (Takayama and Hirose, 2000) • Millibot Train (Brown et al., 2002) • Moira (Osuka & Kitajima, 2003) • Pipeline Explorer (Schempf et al., 2003) • Omnis family (Granosik et al., 2005) • MAKRO plus (Streich & Adria, 2004) • KOHGA (Kamegawa et al., 2004) • JL-I (Zhang et al., 2006) • W...

MT1-MMP is a prototypic member of a membrane-anchored MMP subfamily (Egeblad and Werb, 2002; Holmbeck et al., 2004). This subfamily consists of the six individual enzymes that share a significant peptide sequence homology. MT1-MMP is associated with the cell membrane by a transmembrane domain followed by a cytoplasmic tail (Hernandez-Barrantes et al., 2002) and is synthesized as a latent zymoge...

Evidence of the prognostic significance of synchronous bilateral compared with unilateral breast cancer is available from a number of studies (Gollamudi et al., 1997; Heron et al., 2000; Kollias et al., 2001; Newman et al., 2001; Jobsen et al., 2003; Polednak, 2003; Tousimis, 2005; Beckmann et al., 2011). While results vary, most indicate that synchronous bilateral breast cancers (SBBC) have ei...