In a follow-up to studies of school-children's medical knowledge among the rural Luo of western Kenya, seven mothers were asked for their knowledge of plant medicine, and the 91 plant remedies mentioned by them were collected, 74 of these remedies were identified as 69 different species (in 13 cases, the material did not allow identification of the species, in two cases, only the family could b...

N-RAP is an actin binding LIM protein expressed in skeletal and cardiac muscle tissues (Luo et al., 1997). In adult mice, N-RAP is found at the longitudinal ends of striated muscles at sites of mechanical coupling between the myofibrils and the cell membrane (Luo et al., 1997). These regions are the myotendinous junctions in skeletal muscle and the intercalated disks in heart muscle, and ultras...

Introduction: The ureteral ostia may not be easily identified in urological endoscopic procedures, leading to an incomplete diagnosis of urinary tract diseases or a predisposition to iatrogenic lesions. The purpose of our study is to evaluate the anatomical distribution of ureteralostia in normal bladders and those with thickened walls. Materials and Methods: We dissected 30 vesical-prostate bl...

Probabilistic Methods for Multiscale Evolutionary Dynamics by Shishi Luo Department of Mathematics Duke University

The paper by Zhong, Zeng, Yang & Luo [Acta Cryst. (2007), E63, m1566] is retracted.

The recent identification of the perpendicular mode of radio polarization as the primary one in the Vela pulsar by Lai et al. (2001) is interpreted in terms of the maser mechanism proposed by Luo & Melrose (1995). We suggest that such a mechanism may also be operative for the parallel mode which opens up the possibility of accounting for all types of polarization observed in pulsars. We propose...

The paper by Zhong, Zeng, Yang & Luo [Acta Cryst. (2007), E63, m1567] is retracted.

It is known that the Arrhenius equation, based on the Boltzmann distribution, can model only a part (e.g. half of the activation energy) for retinal discrete dark noise observed for vertebrate rod and cone pigments. Luo et al (Science, 332, 1307-312, 2011) presented a new approach to explain this discrepancy by showing that applying the Hinshelwood distribution instead the Boltzmann distributio...