Breast cancer is one of most common malignant tumor in global female. And the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in breast cancer patients is cancer metastases, but not the primary tumor (Porter, 2009; Sanchez-Zamorano et al., 2011). It has been demonstrated that tumor cell invasion is the key event in the metastatic steps (Geiger et al., 2009). However, recent studies show that cancer pr...

T HE effects of exogenous progesterone on the corpus luteum are quite variable. No gross or microscopic effects were apparent in the pregnant rat (Sammelwitz et al., 1956; Aldred et al., 1959) or rabbit (Ulberg, 1952). Selye (1939) reported no effect of progesterone on corpora lutea of late pregnancy in mice, but Burdick (1942) found that treatment begun one or two days post-mating caused lutea...

22 Detection of Chronic bee paralysis virus (CBPV) is reported for the first time in two 23 species of ants (Camponotus vagus and Formica rufa) and in Varroa destructor. A 24 quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) method was used to detect and quantify CBPV in 25 infected bees, ants and mites. A minus-strand-specific RT-PCR was used to assess viral 26 replication. These results suggest a new way by ...

Scyphomedusae undergo a predictable ontogenetic transition from a conserved, universal larval form to a diverse array of adult morphologies. This transition entails a change in bell morphology from a highly discontinuous ephyral form, with deep clefts separating eight discrete lappets, to a continuous solid umbrella-like adult form. We used a combination of kinematic, modeling, and flow visuali...

470 Extracardiac endothelium patterns embryonic coronary arterio-venous connections JM. Perez-Pomares1; E. Cano2; R. Carmona1; A. Ruiz-Villalba3; A. Rojas4; Y-Y. Chau5; KD. Wagner6; N. Wagner6; ND. Hastie5; R. Munoz-Chapuli1 University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain; Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany; University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain; Centro Andaluz de Biologı́a Molecul...

Et Tu, Torsten? This critique of my Economic Policy paper generates many emotions. It is certainly an honor for my research to be taken seriously by such an eminent scholar as my friend Torsten Persson. And while any publicity is good, a negative citation dominates a positive one. There is irony; I came up with the original idea in a hallway conversation with Harry Flam a few feet from Persson’...

A traditional view of the nature of species holds that populations within species maintain genetic cohesion through substantial intraspecific gene flow and that the whole genome of a species is protected from interspecific gene flow by strong reproductive isolation. Both aspects of this view have been challenged. Reproductive barriers between recently evolved species can be incomplete and perme...