The order Anguilliformes comprises 15 families, 141 genera and 791 fish species. Eight families had at least one karyotyped species, with a prevalence of 2n = 38 chromosomes and high fundamental numbers (FN). The only exception to this pattern is the family Muraenidae, in which the eight species analyzed presented 2n = 42 chromosomes. Despite of the large number of Anguilliformes species, karyo...

Monoclonal antibodies to a cytosolic insulin-degrading enzyme (IDE) were produced by fusing spleen cells from mouse immunized highly purified human erythrocyte IDE with mouse myeloma cells. Four monoclonal antibodies were identified by their ability to bind to 125I-insulin covalently linked to a cytosolic IDE from human erythrocytes. All four antibodies were found to remove more than 90% of the...

The increasing development of information technology has led to a higher demand for communication capacity. Moreover, the mode division multiplexing (MDM) is considered one important technologies expand optical fiber transmission capacity, and few-mode erbium-doped amplifier (FM-EDFA) main device applied loss compensation under long-haul systems. This paper reports design characterization six-m...

Abstract Copeptin, a glycosylated peptide fragment derived from the C-terminal region of precursor arginine8 vasopressin (AVP), is co-secreted with AVP in equimolar amounts. Elevated plasma modulates gastric motility so we investigated whether copeptin had similar effect. Copeptin (10-9-10-7M), and (10-12-10-5M), were evaluated for their ability to modulate spontaneous electrically-evoked (EFS)...

Abstract Introduction MTBI remains on one of the most prevalently reported brain injuries. Previous studies have shown an association between sleep efficiency, performance, and neurocognitive outcome. Reported time-since-injury (TSI) has also with outcome measures, some evidence suggesting status is significantly worse at 2 weeks post-injury. Here, we examined differences in self-reported effic...

The paper considers models of monolithic flat floor slabs with five spans in both directions. cell sizes are 6×6m, 6×9m, and 6×12m. calculation method is based on the application temperature load rope modeling rod elements. It shown that post-stressing should be used for slab side lengths over 7 m, as installation pre-stressed reinforcement shorter less feasible causes high economic costs.

We determine the surface density of matter in the disc of the Galaxy at the solar position using K giant stars. The local space density and luminosity function of the giants is determined using parallaxes from the Hipparcos satellite; for more distant giants, observed in a cone at the South Galactic Pole, distances are determined using intermediate band DDO photometry (which has been calibrated...

Synthesis and anticonvulsant potential of certain new 6-aryl-9-substituted-6,9-diazaspiro[4.5]decane-8,10-diones (6a-l) and 1-aryl-4-substituted-1,4-diazaspiro[5.5] undecane-3,5-diones (6m-x) are reported. The intermediates 1-[(aryl)(cyanomethyl)amino] cycloalkanecarboxamides (3a-f) were prepared via adopting Strecker synthesis on the proper cycloalkanone followed by partial hydrolysis of the o...

An increasing number of studies have shown that vitamin K may play a critical role in metabolism of bone. However, the anabolic effect of MK-7 on promoting bone formation needs to be further investigated. The present study investigates the effect of MK-7 on osteoblastic bone formation in femoral-diaphyseal and -metaphyseal tissues of 4-week-old rats (n=18). The rat tissue was cultured in Dulbec...