Guillery ~ used the Golgi method to study 4 classes of cells in the cat's lateral geniculate nucleus. His 3 largest classes (classes 1, 2, and 4) of cells were identified as relay ceils projecting to visual cortex, and cells in his smallest class (class 3) were identified as interneurons. Since Golgi methods selectively and somewhat capriciously stain less than 2 ~ of the available neurons 21, ...

A facilities-group system designed to provide clinical training at dental clinics was developed after postgraduate clinical training became mandatory for dentists in Japan in 2006. As a result, there has been a steady increase in the number of dental clinics collaborating with dental school hospitals under this program. A larger number of dental clinics have also been designated as single-syste...

Cluster of differentiation 4 gene (CD4) is well known for its role in immunity, but its effects on production traits remain to be elucidated. The present study was designed to explore single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the exons, flanking introns, and promoter of CD4, as well as to analyze their effects on milk production traits (percentage of protein, fat, and lactose; mastitis indicato...

Gleason score has long been considered the most powerful tissue-based predictor of outcome for prostate cancer. One of the strengths of this system is that it factors in the multiple grades that are often present in a single tumor. However, there is growing awareness of the limitations of Gleason grading. Specifically, few of the original Gleason criteria are currently used and cancers tend to ...

Energy consumption is a very important topic these days especially regarding air conditioning in residential buildings, since this takes the biggest amount of energy in buildings total consumption, residential buildings constitute the biggest percentage of energy consumption in Bahrain. This research reflects on the effects of shading percentage in different solar orientations on the energy con...

BACKGROUND Visceral fat is related to coronary atherosclerosis, but little is known about the relation between coronary atherosclerosis and percent body fat accumulated in different parts of the body. METHODS AND RESULTS The subjects were 100 consecutive patients with demonstrated electrocardiographic ischemic changes. Coronary atherosclerosis was assessed using Gensini's coronary score (CS),...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Perforin is one of the major effector molecules of cytotoxic cells associated with killing of cells harbouring intracellular bacterial infection. The precise role of perforin positive cells in tuberculosis still remains controversial. The present study was done to determine the number of circulating CD4(+) and CD8(+) perforin positive cells to assess the level of cytotox...

Accurate road speed predictions can help drivers in smart route planning. Although the issue has been studied previously, most existing work focus on arterial roads only, where sensors are configured closely for collecting complete real-time data. For collector roads where sensors sparsely cover, however, speed predictions are often ignored. With GPS-equipped floating car signals being availabl...

A new carcass EPD has been developed for the American Angus Association’s National Carcass Evaluation Program. A percentage of retail product EPD combines the traditional carcass traits (hot carcass weight, fat thickness, ribeye area and KPH) into a composite EPD. Although the heritabilitty for this trait (.25) is not the highest for the carcass traits, it is high enough for breeders to make si...

Excess of body fat often leads to obesity. Obesity is typically associated with serious medical diseases, such as cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. Accordingly, knowing the body fat is an extremely important issue since it affects everyone's health. Although there are several ways to measure the body fat percentage (BFP), the accurate methods are often associated with hassle and/or high cost...