introduction: male infertility frequently occures after spinal cord injury (sci). however little in known about the acute effect of sci on male reproductive function. this study examined the spermatogenic changes during acute phase of sci. material and metods: in experimental groups sci was produced in male rats by t9 laminectomy and spinal cord transsection (n=23, age=70 days). control groups ...

background: bone marrow stromal cells (bmsc) have been successfully employed for movement deficit recovery in spinal cord injury (sci) rat models. one of the unsettled problems in cell transplantation is the relative high proportion of cell death, specifically after neural differentiation. according to our previous studies, p75 receptor, known as the death receptor, is only expressed in bmsc in...

We present a type reconstruction algorithm for SCIR [10], a type system for a language with syntactic control of interference. SCIR guarantees that terms of passive type do not cause any side effects, and that distinct identifiers do not interfere. A reconstruction algorithm for this type system must deal with different kinds (passive and general) and different uses of identifiers (passive and ...

9. De Moraes, C. M., Lewis, W. J., Paré, P. W., Alborn, H. T. & Tumlinson, J. H. Nature 393, 570–573 (1998). 10.Du, Y. et al. J. Chem. Ecol. 22, 1591–1606 (1996). single person’s IQ-test performance (assuming a test reliability of 0.95, the 50% confidence interval would be 4.5 IQ points wide). To account for the Mozart effect, Rauscher’s group appealed to a model of cortical computation whose o...

1 Simulating complex SCI topologies Geir Horn, John W. Bothner, Svein Linge, Ernst H. Kristiansen, ystein Gran Larsen Abstract| This paper shows how rather complex SCI topologies might be constructed and simulated using our present SCI simulator. We also present the serial HIC technology developed in the European OMI/HIC project. A HIC network may be used to transport SCI packets, and our new H...

The reliability of the narrative of the Biblical Exodus has been subject of heated debate for decades. Recent archaeological studies seem to provide new insight of the exodus path, and although with a still controversial chronology, the effects of the Minoan Santorini eruption have been proposed as a likely explanation of the biblical plagues. Particularly, it has been suggested that flooding b...

. The spectral theory of the equation changes depending on the growth of H towards the endpoint s+; the classical distinction into the Weyl alternatives ‘limit point’ or ‘limit circle’ case. A refined measure for the growth of a limit point Hamiltonian H can be obtained by comparing with Hpolynomials. This growth measure is concretised by a number∆(H) ∈ N0∪{∞} and appeared first in connection w...

Insects, like other organisms, must deal with a wide variety of potentially challenging environmental factors during the course of their life. An important example of such a challenge is the phenomenon of oxidative stress. This review summarizes the current knowledge on the role of adipokinetic hormones (AKH) as principal stress responsive hormones in insects involved in activation of anti-oxid...