SSc is a heterogeneous autoimmune CTD characterized by widespread vasculopathy, formation of autoantibodies and varying degrees of skin and major organ fibrosis [1, 2]. The life-threatening nature of this disease is well depicted by a 5-year mortality of 30 50% in a subset of patients with dcSSc and internal organ involvement. Despite the substantial research over the past decade, the aetiology...

10.4172/Neuropsychiatry.1000183 © 2017 pISSN 1758-2008 eISSN 1758-2016 Neuropsychiatry (London) (2017) 7(2), 77–85 77 1Department of Anesthesiology, the Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan Province, China, 646000 2Department of Pharmacology, Rush Medical College, Rush University, Chicago, IL 60612, USA †Author for correspondence: Xiaobin Wang M.D., Department of...

Two cestode species, Fimbriaria fasciolaris (Pallas, 1781) Frölich, 1802 Cloacotaenia megalops (Nitzsch in Creplin, 1829) Wolffhügel, 1938 collected from Anas bahamensis Linné, 1758 and Amazonetta brasiliensis (Gmelin, 1758) in lagoons of the Maricá District, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, are described. This is the first record of F. fasciolaris parasitizing A. bahamensis. The prevalence, in...

Daniel B. Work1, Sébastien Blandin1, Olli-Pekka Tossavainen1, Benedetto Piccoli2,3, and Alexandre M. Bayen4 1Systems Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 621 Sutardja Dai Hall #1758, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo ‘M. Picone.’ Via dei Taurini 19, Rome, Italy, 3Department of Mathematical Sciences and CCI...

Part of the genus Lioconcha Mörch, 1853 is reviewed. Species strongly resembling Lioconcha castrensis (Linnaeus, 1758) are discussed and two new species are described: Lioconcha arabaya n. sp. from the Northwest Indian Ocean and Lioconcha rumphii n. sp. from Thailand and Sumatra. These three species, together with Lioconcha macaulayi Lamprell & Healy, 2002, share many morphological similarities...

Motivation: A basic issue for translational genomics is to model gene interaction via gene regulatory networks (GRNs) and thereby provide an informatics environment to study the effects of intervention (say, via drugs) and to derive effective intervention strategies. Taking the view that the phenotype is characterized by the long-run behavior (steadystate distribution) of the network, we desire...

The results of GRANAT/SIGMA hard X-ray observations of GRS 1758–258 in 1990–1998 are presented. The source lies at ∼ 5 from the Galactic Center and was within the SIGMA field of view during the GRANAT surveys of this region. The total exposure time of the Galactic Center was 11×10 s. The regular SIGMA observations revealed strong variability of the source: the 40–150 keV flux varied at least by...

The Russian wheat aphid, Diuraphis noxia (Mordvilko) (Hemiptera: Aphididae), causes severe damage to barley, Hordeum vulgare L. (Poales: Poaceae), in the highlands of Ethiopia. Little information is available on the control of this pest in Ethiopia. An experiment aimed at evaluating the resistance of barley varieties from the USA to D. noxia populations and determining biotypic variation betwee...