Suaeda fruticosa (L.) Forssk plants grown in saline conditions (200 to 400 mol m!3 NaCl) had greater fresh and dry weights than those grown in non-saline controls, and 600 to 1000 mol m!3 NaCl inhibited growth. Gibberellic acid and kinetin both alleviated some of the inhibitory effects of salinity at 800 mol m!3 NaCl on shoot growth of S. fruticosa while root growth was promoted by kinetin. Tis...

216 words Introduction: 750 words Discussion: 1391 words Non-standard abbreviations: mAChR, muscarinic cholinergic receptor; DIDS, 4,4’ diisothiocyanatostilbene-2,2’-disulfonic acid; NPPB, 5-nitro-2-(3-phenylpropylamino) benzoic acid; Oxo-M, oxotremorine-M; DMEM, Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium; 4DAMP, 4-diphenylacetoxy-N-methylpiperidine methiodide; AF-DX 116, 11-[[2[(diethylamino)methyl]-1...

In this work, the role of HDAC6, a type II histone deacetylase with tubulin deacetylase activity, in lymphocyte polarity, motility, and transmigration was explored. HDAC6 was localized at dynamic subcellular structures as leading lamellipodia and the uropod in migrating T-cells. However, HDAC6 activity did not appear to be involved in the polarity of migrating lymphocytes. Overexpression of HDA...

Poland syndrome is characterized by unilateral absence or hypoplasia of the pectoralis muscle and variable degree of ipsilateral hand anomalies. Möbius syndrome is a congenital neurological disorder characterized by complete or partial facial paralysis. Although the pathogeneses of these diseases are not well-characterized, diminished blood flow to the affected side is thought to play a role. A...

Vol. 26, No. 6, 2014 793 Received November 14, 2013, Revised June 26, 2014, Accepted for publication July 30, 2014 Corresponding author: Hyun Jeong Park, Department of Dermatology, Yeouido St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 10 63-ro, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul 150-713, Korea. Tel: 82-2-3779-1391, Fax: 82-2-783-7604, E-mail: hjpark@ catholic.ac.kr This is an ...

Impaired motor cognition may underpin empathy problems in autism. The actions and feelings questionnaire (AFQ), designed to examine individual differences in motor cognition, was completed fully by 1391 adults, of whom 326 reported a diagnosis of an autism spectrum condition (ASC). A confirmatory factor analysis supported a 3 factor model. The AFQ total and 'feelings' subscale scores correlated...

In this paper, it is shown in an example that the original definition of stable sets in Hillas [Econometrica 58 (1990) 1365–1391] does not satisfy (an even slightly weakenened version of) the invariance condition proposed in Mertens [Ordinality in noncooperative games, Core Discussion Paper 8728, CORE Louvain de la Neuve, Belgium, 1987]. However, it is also shown that the basic stability condit...

Relaxation time measurements of magnetically induced birefringence of ferrofluid solutions are performed with samples of various polydispersities. dH, the hydrodynamic diameter of particles deduced from experiments, is compared to a numerical computation with a log-normal distribution. Dynamic magnetic birefringence appears to be a good test of the tail of the sample size distribution. For a na...