Seagrass beds play a vital role in estuarine systems worldwide by providing substrate, food, refuge from predation, and nursery habitat for a diverse assemblage of associated organisms (Williams & Heck 2001). Mesograzers, mobile epifaunal invertebrates, are important components of seagrass communities, serving as a link in the food chain from primary producers to higher-order consumers (Kikuchi...

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...

The organization of the vertebrate brain and its differentiation into functionally and anatomically distinct areas is based on early patterning and regional specification of the neural plate during embryonic development. Both vertical signals that emanate from the mesendoderm and planar signals travelling within the plain of the neuroectoderm itself are thought to be involved in neural plate pa...

Alternative splicing is a cellular process that accounts for protein diversity in higher eukaryotes. As much as 60% of the human genome (Kan et al., 2001) and 41% of the mouse genome (FANTOM Consortium, 2002) are alternatively spliced. Methods currently available specifically for aligning mRNA sequences to their cognate genomic sequence has include sim4 (Florea et al., 1998) and Spidey (Wheelan...

The comparative wavelet analysis presented in details by Demiralp et al. (1999), Ademoglu (1995) and by Başar et al. (2001) will be now applied to oddball P300 results (see Başar-Eroglu et al., 2001). The results obtained basically confirm those obtained by using adaptive digital filtering: The delta response dominates the P300 potential while the theta response is prolonged in a second late wi...

Meniscal variations have increasingly been reported in medical literature. These anomalies mainly appear in the lateral side of the knee (Arnold et al., 2000). However, meniscal variations, such as discoid meniscus and hypoplasia, can also be found in the medial side (Cave and Staples, 1941; Min et al., 2001; Yañez-Acevedo, 2001; Tachibana et al., 2003; Monllau et al., 2006). The purpose of thi...

GD2 ganglioside is an important example of tumour-associated carbohydrate antigens. Over expression of the GD2 ganglioside is a hallmark of neuroblastoma, while its expression on normal cells is restricted. The antigen is stably expressed on cells of the tumour, and retained during a therapy of the disease (Kramer et al., 2001). The facts allow to use its presence to diagnose neuroblastoma, mon...

INTRODUCTION Eaf1 and Eaf2 were originally identified as partners of ELL (elevennineteen lysine-rich leukemia), a fusion protein frequently associated with myeloid leukemia (Simone et al., 2001; Simone et al., 2003). Studies suggest that Eaf2 serves as a novel tumor suppressor, especially in prostate cancer (Xiao et al., 2003; Xiao et al., 2008; Xiao et al., 2009); however, the molecular mechan...

Instrumented spinal fusion surgery is increasingly performed in the treatment of degenerative disorders, Spondylolisthesis, deformity, trauma and tumors affecting the spine (Davis, 1994; Katz, 1995). In-vitro and In-vivo studies using the free hand or fluoroscopically assisted techniques documented breaching of the pedicle in 3-55% (Amiot et al., 2000; Belmont et al., 2001; Belmont et al., 2002...