Development of the lacrimal gland is an example of an epithelial-mesenchymal interaction. In the mouse, a single budlike invagination of the conjunctival epithelium at the temporal extremity of the eye is the initial sign of lacrimal gland formation (Kammandel et al., 1999). The mesenchymal cells that surround the point of epithelial budding are the periocular cells, of neural crest origin (Joh...

abstract background iron overload is a major problem in patients with major thalassemia. an effective and safe iron chelator protocol with high compliance rate plays an important role in treatment of these patients. this study was done to assess the efficacy and safety of the sequential deferoxamine and deferasirox protocol in major thalassemia patients in khuzestan province, iran. material and...

Religious affiliation and attendance have been shown to affect various facets of mental health, including the willingness seek health assistance; however, little is known about how theological beliefs influence people’s assessments religious secular assistance options. Prior research using conservatism (beliefs scripture, sin, salvation) has conceptualized this perspective as being a schema in ...

The extant amphibians are one of the most diverse radiations of terrestrial vertebrates (>6800 species). Despite much recent focus on their conservation, diversification, and systematics, no previous phylogeny for the group has contained more than 522 species. However, numerous studies with limited taxon sampling have generated large amounts of partially overlapping sequence data for many speci...

1. Klastersky JA. Use of imipenem as empirical treatment of febrile neutropenia. Int J Antimicrob Agents 2003; 21: 393–402. 2. Hughes WT, Armstrong D, Bodey GP et al. 2002 guidelines for the use of antimicrobial agents in neutropenic patients with cancer. Clin Infect Dis 2002; 34: 730–51. 3. Mouton JW, Touzw DJ, Horrevorts AM et al. Comparative pharmacokinetics of the carbapenems: clinical impl...

In 1941, Andrei N. Kolmogorov predicted that, within all highly turbulent flows, there is a universal energy-conserving cascade whereby the energy of the large-scale eddies is transferred to finer and finer scales, down to the scales at which the energy is finally dissipated to heat. It is difficult to measure such a cascade directly, but related benchmark predictions for the statistical behavi...

INTRODUCTION Since Canada began fortifying grain products with folic acid in 1998, the rate of folate deficiency in outpatients has decreased substantially. Limited data exist on the prevalence of folate deficiency in Canadian hospital inpatients. METHODS The electronic patient record at a large urban academic institution was reviewed for all red blood cell folate and vitamin B12 level tests ...

We present numerical studies of compressible, decaying turbulence, with and without magnetic fields, with initial rms Alfvén and Mach numbers ranging up to five, and apply the results to the question of the support of star-forming interstellar clouds of molecular gas. We find that, in 1D, magnetized turbulence actually decays faster than unmagnetized turbulence. In all the regimes that we have ...

We compare the highly clustered populations of very high redshift galaxies with proto-clusters identified numerically in a standard ΛCDM universe (Ω0 = 0.3, λ0 = 0.7) simulation. We evolve 2563 dark matter particles in a comoving box of side 150h−1Mpc. By the present day there are 63 cluster sized objects of mass in excess of 10hM⊙ in this box. We trace these clusters back to higher redshift fi...