Time course digestion of intact human erythrocytes and right side-out vesicles with carboxypeptidase Y altered the Rh polypeptides and removed the 125I label that is normally incorporated by cell-surface radioiodination, but did not affect the RhD, Rhc, or RhE antigens. Under the same conditions, however, the LW antigens were rapidly destroyed. Digestion of inside-out and right side-out vesicle...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether short-term propulsion of a functional electrical stimulation-assisted leg-cycling wheelchair (FES-LW) in patients with stroke can reduce spasticity of the affected leg and whether FES has additional effects on reducing spasticity. DESIGN Within-subject comparison. SUBJECTS A total of 17 patients after stroke were recruited from the university hospital. METHO...

This study aims to determine whether a low weight at birth may influence muscle characteristics and meat quality traits in pigs at market weight. At 68 days of age, a total of 30 female piglets were assigned within litter to one of the two experimental groups (n = 15 per group): low birth weight (LW: 1.05 + 0.04 kg) or heavy birth weight (HW: 1.89 + 0.02 kg). Pigs were penned individually and f...

Large wood (LW) disasters, which often accompany sediment-related occur worldwide. To prevent and mitigate such we developed a unique LW trap featuring horizontal rods aligned with the flow. When enters trap, it is scooped up by thus separated from water sediment. We explored trapping efficacy using flume of slope 0.087. Water circulated at constant rate 1.8 L/s, was added to flow, rates were m...

Dragonflies are colorful and large-eyed animals strongly dependent on color vision. Here we report an extraordinary large number of opsin genes in dragonflies and their characteristic spatiotemporal expression patterns. Exhaustive transcriptomic and genomic surveys of three dragonflies of the family Libellulidae consistently identified 20 opsin genes, consisting of 4 nonvisual opsin genes and 1...

The cricket, Gryllus rubens (Orthoptera, Gryllidae), exists in natural populations as either a fully-winged (LW), flight-capable morph or as a short-winged (SW) morph that cannot fly. The SW morph is substantially more fecund than the LW morph. In this study we report on the physiological basis of this trade-off between flight capability and fecundity. Results from gravimetric feeding trials in...

Chlorinated hydrocarbon contaminants in coastal river otters (Lontra canadensis) were evaluated by sampling feces (scats) collected on the south coast of British Columbia, Canada. A broad survey of industrialized areas of the Strait of Georgia region was conducted in 1998, and a subsequent survey of working harbours in 2004. Samples from 1998 were analyzed for polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), ...