This study presents an acoustic analysis of F0 contours of T2, T4 and T6 words by 40 Wu speakers of the Wuxi dialect (stratified for area, sex and age). The results show that T4 is merging with T2 and T6, and that T4 words which have the same corresponding tone of Putonghua with T6 are leading the change. Among young people, the previously merged T2 and T6 show a tendency to split. These ongoin...

Soil salinity is a serious problem worldwide that reduces agricultural productivity. Trichoderma longibrachiatum T6 (T6) has been shown to promote wheat growth and induce plant resistance to parasitic nematodes, but whether the plant-growth-promoting fungi T6 can enhance plant tolerance to salt stress is unknown. Here, we determined the effect of plant-growth-promoting fungi T6 on wheat seedlin...

Magnesium alloys are attracting great interest from the automotive industry because of the potential for weight reduction. An AZ91D cast alloy was studied in the current work to understand the effect of heat treatment on the microstructure and dynamic compressive properties. The selected heat treatments include solution treatment (T4) and solution treatment followed by aging (T6). The as-cast a...

This study investigated a theoretically challenging dissociation between good production and poor perception of tones among neurologically unimpaired native speakers of Cantonese. The dissociation is referred to as the near-merger phenomenon in sociolinguistic studies of sound change. In a passive oddball paradigm, lexical and nonlexical syllables of the T1/T6 and T4/T6 contrasts were presented...

We have investigated normal human corneas for the presence of T6-marker on Langerhans cells. With the exception of one pair of newborn corneas and two pairs of very young infant corneas, all HLA-DR-positive cells in central and peripheral corneal epithelium were T6-negative by double-labeled immunofluorescence. In contrast, epidermal sheets from normal human eyelid skin displayed positive stain...

The occurrence of hairless piebald mice trisomic for the chromosome segments of the T6M chromosome has shown that the LG I11 loci hr and s are not located on T6M. The T6 breakpoint in LG I11 is therefore in the position h-s-T6. T6M must carry the gene FkZ, which is located on the far side of the T6 breakpoint from hr in LG 111.-T6 reduces recombination in the hr-s region.-Trisomy for the chromo...

The changes in distribution and turnover of T6+ Langerhans cells (LC) in the skin during delayed immune responses to tuberculin, and in the lesions of tuberculoid leprosy and cutaneous Leishmaniasis were investigated. In each situation, there was a dermal accumulation of monocytes and T cells and epidermal thickening with keratinocyte Ia expression. In the tuberculin response a dramatic change ...

Hepatocytes and hepatic stellate cells play important roles in retinoid storage and metabolism. Hepatocytes process postprandial retinyl esters and are responsible for secretion of retinol bound to retinol-binding protein (RBP) to maintain plasma retinol levels. Stellate cells are the body's major cellular storage sites for retinoid. We have characterized and utilized an immortalized rat stella...

− Manassantin B, a dilignan isolated from Saururus chinensis, significantly inhibited proliferation in HSC-T6 cells in concentrationand time-dependent manners. In addition, treatment of HSC-T6 cells with manassantin B changed cell morphology from flattened myofibroblastic membranous morphology, representing activation state, to slender shape, representing quiescent state. Furthermore, manassant...

The dynamics of host susceptibility to parasites are often influenced by trade-offs between the costs and benefits of resistance. We assayed changes in the resistance to three viruses in six lines of Escherichia coli that had been evolving for almost 45,000 generations in their absence. The common ancestor of these lines was completely resistant to T6, partially resistant to T6* (a mutant of T6...