Autographa californica nucleopolyhedrovirus (AcMNPV) does not replicate in Bombyx mori cells (Bm5, BmN). We have shown previously that when a short DNA sequence within AcMNPV ORF95, which encodes the viral helicase P143, is replaced with the colinear region of B. mori nucleopolyhedrovirus (BmNPV), AcMNPV gains the ability to replicate in Bm5 cells. To determine the mutational events in the p143...

Interferon induces oligo-2',5'-adenylate synthetase in cells. In various diseases, interferon was detectable in the circulation or was produced spontaneously from peripheral blood mononuclear leukocytes. The oligo-2',5'-adenylate synthetase activity in peripheral blood mononuclear leukocytes was examined in various diseases, including systemic lupus erythematosus, sarcoidosis, Vogt-Koyanagi-Har...

The silkworm Bombyx mori L. (B. mori) has a significant impact on the economy by producing more than 80% of the globally produced raw silk. The exposure of silkworm to pesticides may cause adverse effects on B. mori, such as a reduction in the production and quality of silk. This study aims to assay the effect of venom from the jellyfish Nemopilema nomurai on growth, cuticle and acetylcholinest...

Bombyx mori and Bombyx mandarina are morphologically and physiologically similar. In this study, we compared the nucleotide variations in the complete mitochondrial (mt) genomes between the domesticated silkmoth, B. mori, and its wild ancestors, Chinese B. mandarina (ChBm) and Japanese B. mandarina (JaBm). The sequence divergence and transition mutation ratio between B. mori and ChBm are signif...

A Peterson variety is a subvariety of the flag variety G/B defined by certain linear conditions. Peterson varieties appear in the construction of the quantum cohomology of partial flag varieties and in applications to the Toda flows. Each Peterson variety has a one-dimensional torus S acting on it. We give a basis of Peterson Schubert classes for H∗ S1(Pet) and identify the ring generators. In ...

FROM A JAPANESE PERSPECTIVE: THE WESTERN INFLUENCES IN WORKS OF ŌGAI
 The article focuses on how Mori Ōgai (1862-1922), a Japanese writer, translator and literary critic, incorporated references to European literature culture in his novellas: Maihime (The Dancing Girl, 1890), Mōsō (Delusion, 1911) Hanako (1910). hermeneutic approach sheds light the author’s vivid interest foreign languages...

Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease, also known as uveomeningitic syndrome, is an idiopathic multisystem inflammatory disease with bilateral uveitis. Patients with bilateral anterior uveitis with vitiligo, poliosis, alopecia, and dysacousia were first described by Vogt in 1906 and then Koyanagi in 1929. Harada described a case of posterior uveitis with exudative retinal detachment and pleocytosi...

We study birational transformations of certain fibtations of degree 4 del Pezzo surfaces over P, into other Mori fibre spaces, using Cox rings. We show that these Mori fibre spaces have a (relatively) big pliability although they are not rational. Our methods can be applied to study birational geometry of Mori dream spaces with low rank Cox ring.

UNLABELLED We report a female patient diagnosed as Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). She has diagnosed as VKH with diminished vision, bilateral serous retinal detachment, the signs of fundus fluorescein angiography and the findings of optical coherence tomography. The patient was referred to the gynecology clinic for her complaints as weight gain, hirsutismus and ...