The relationship between segmental mobility and the organisation of thoracic stretch receptors was examined in the deep-sea isopod Bathynomus doederleini, which shows a developed adaptive behaviour during digging. The movements of segments during digging were analysed from video recordings, which showed that a large excursion occurred in the anterior thoracic segments. Dye-fills of axons reveal...

AIM To evaluate the prognostic value of the tumor-stroma ratio (TSR) in rectal cancer. METHODS TSR was determined on hematoxylin and eosin stained histological sections of 154 patients treated for rectal adenocarcinoma without prior neoadjuvant treatment in the period 1996-2006 by two observers to assess reproducibility. Patients were categorized into three categories: TSR-high [carcinoma per...

Sex ratio of adults (tertiary sex ratio, TSR) is a major feature of animal populations with consequences for their behaviour, genetic structure and viability. Spatial and temporal variation in TSR occurs within species but the mechanisms behind it are poorly understood. In this long-term study of a declining population of a socially monogamous, colonial, migratory bird, the barn swallow (Hirund...

Let A, B be two regular commutative unital Banach algebras such that B is integral over A. In 2003, Dawson and Feinstein showed that the topological stable rank tsr(B) = 1 whenever tsr(A) = 1. In this note, we investigate whether we will have tsr(A) = tsr(B) in general. For instance, when A is a commutative unital C∗-algebra, we show that tsr(A) ≤ tsr(B), and the equality holds at least when th...

Tumour stroma ratio (TSR) is emerging as an important prognostic indicator in cancer. We have previously shown TSR to be prognostic in oestrogen receptor positive breast cancer. Its role in inflammatory breast cancer, a rare but aggressive form of breast cancer, has not been identified. Here we aimed to determine the prognostic significance of TSR in a cohort of patients with inflammatory breas...

The tsr gene specifies a methyl-accepting membrane protein involved in chemotaxis to serine and several repellent compounds. We have characterized a special class of tsr mutations designated cheD which alter the signaling properties of the Tsr transducer. Unlike tsr null mutants, cheD strains are generally nonchemotactic, dominant in complementation tests, and exhibit a pronounced counterclockw...

Abstract. When a unital C*-algebra A has topological stable rank one (write tsr(A) = 1), we know that tsr(pAp) ≤ 1 for a non-zero projection p ∈ A. When, however, tsr(A) ≥ 2, it is generally faluse. We prove that if a unital C*algebra A has a simple unital C*-subalgebra D of A with common unit such that D has Property (SP) and supp∈P (D) tsr(pAp) < ∞, then tsr(A) ≤ 2. As an application let A be...

An electromyographic technique was used to record the tonic stretch reflex (TSR) responses to passive sinusoidal stretching of biceps brachii muscle in athetotic patients. The TSR transmission characteristics measured while the patient was in a relaxed state were compared with those measured while the patient was voluntarily active. The resting TSR and action TSR were found to differ markedly. ...

The x-ray crystal structure of the thiostrepton resistance RNA methyltransferase (Tsr).S-adenosyl-L-methionine (AdoMet) complex was determined at 2.45-A resolution. Tsr is definitively confirmed as a Class IV methyltransferase of the SpoU family with an N-terminal "L30-like" putative target recognition domain. The structure and our in vitro analysis of the interaction of Tsr with its target dom...

Chemoreceptors of the methyl-accepting chemotaxis protein family form clusters, typically at the cell pole(s), in both Bacteria and Archaea. To elucidate the architecture and signaling role of receptor clusters, we investigated interactions between the serine (Tsr) and aspartate (Tar) chemoreceptors in Escherichia coli by constructing Tsr mutations at the six hydrophobic and five polar residues...