This communication describes a method to fabricate multilayer colloidal crystals formed by the layer-by-layer deposition of silica beads on a glass substrate. Each layer of the crystal consists of a three-dimensionally ordered array of close-packed colloids. These multilayer samples are amenable to templating methods for tuning the dielectric contrast of the material. The resulting photonic cry...

Environmental economics, which analyses the links between economic activity and environmental systems, has hypothesized that a relation which may be described as an ‘inverted U’ exists between environmental quality/pollution and pro capite income variables (Kuznets hypothesis; Kuznets, 1955). According to this hypothesis, when income begins to grow, starting from a low level, the environmental ...

OBJECTIVE Studies have demonstrated that miRNA -378 expressed in various malignant tumors. In the present study, we aim to explore the expression of serum miRNA-378 and its clinical significance in laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 127 LSCC patients, 127 vocal cord polyp (VCP) and 130 healthy controls were selected. RESULTS The miRNA-378 leve...

We sought to investigate whether miR-378 plays a role in cumulus cells and whether the manipulation of miRNA levels in cumulus cells influences oocyte maturation in vitro. Cumulus-oocyte complexes (COCs) from ovarian follicles had significantly lower levels of precursor and mature miR-378 in cumulus cells surrounding metaphase II (MII) oocytes than cumulus cells surrounding germinal vesicle (GV...

D9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive ingredient of marijuana, has useful medicinal properties but also undesirable side effects. The brain receptor for THC, CB1, is also activated by the endogenous cannabinoids anandamide and 2-arachidonylglycerol (2-AG). Augmentation of endocannabinoid signaling by blockade of their metabolism may offer a more selective pharmacological approach comp...

Social brain circuitry has recently been implicated in processing slow, gentle touch targeting a class of slow-conducting, unmyelinated nerves, CT afferents, which are present only in the hairy skin of mammals. Given the importance of such affective touch in social relationships, the current functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study aimed to replicate the finding of social brain involv...

From a search of the available literature, a database of 22 drugs of all charge types and several different therapeutic classes was compiled to compare rat and human biliary clearance data. Dog biliary excretion data were also found for nine of the drugs. For 19 of the 22 drugs (86%), rat unbound biliary clearance values, when normalized for body weight, exceeded those for humans by factors ran...