BACKGROUND End-systolic volume index (ESVI) is a marker of systolic function, which can be assessed by the geometric (GM, based on Teichholz formula) or 2 planimetric methods (PM, Simpson's derived and length area methods). HYPOTHESIS Systolic dysfunction (SyD) may be observed in dogs with mitral valve disease (MVD) and is better assessed by PM than GM, which does not take into account the lo...

The CUP-SHAPED COTYLEDON (CUC) genes CUC1, CUC2 and CUC3 act redundantly to control cotyledon separation in Arabidopsis. In order to identify novel regulators of this process, we have performed a phenotypical enhancer screen using a null allele of cuc2, cuc2-1. We identified three nonsense alleles of AtBRM, an Arabidopsis SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling ATPase, that result in strong cotyledon fusi...

Resistance to soybean rust (SBR), caused by Phakopsora pachyrhizi Syd. & Syd., has been identified in many soybean germplasm accessions and is conferred by either dominant or recessive genes that have been mapped to six independent loci (Rpp1 -Rpp6), but No U.S. cultivars are resistant to SBR. The cultivar DT 2000 (PI 635999) has resistance to P. pachyrhizi isolates and field populations from t...

A Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) assay was developed for the detection of pine pathogen Dothistroma septosporum (G. Dorog.) M. Morelet. The specificity LAMP tested using a selection needle fungi, including pini Hulbary, and Lecanosticta acicola (Thüm.) Syd.; only D. DNA amplified by test. In terms sensitivity, able to detect as little 1 pg total DNA. This enables extracted from d...

GRIP is present at excitatory synapses by immunocyto-Technology chemistry, but GRIP also exists abundantly in nonsynap-Taejon 305-701 tic locations such as in dendritic shafts (where it is asso-Korea ciated with vesicles and microtubules), axons, axon 4 Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy terminals, and cell soma (associated with endoplasmic Summary example, the association of GRIP with intr...

A few readers of my last two columns may have suspected that something was afoot. Why, they might ask, does he suddenly produce not one, but two confessions? After shamefacedly exposing his tendency to consider book theft as a way of acquiring knowledge and trying to reverse the hint of plagiarism in his works by suggesting that it was the other way around, we might expect anything. Well, the e...