C57BLKS db/db (db/db) mice develop a neuropathy with features of human type 2 diabetic neuropathy. Here, we demonstrate that these mice develop transient mechanical allodynia at the early stage of diabetes. We hypothesized that nerve growth factor (NGF), which enhances the expression of key mediators of nociception (i.e. substance P [SP] and calcitonin gene<related peptide), contributes to the ...

Several authors have examined connections between permutations which avoid 132, continued fractions, and Chebyshev polynomials of the second kind. In this paper we prove analogues of some of these results for permutations which avoid 1243 and 2143. Using tools developed to prove these analogues, we give enumerations and generating functions for permutations which avoid 1243, 2143, and certain a...

Several authors have examined connections between permutations which avoid 132, continued fractions, and Chebyshev polynomials of the second kind. In this paper we prove analogues of some of these results for permutations which avoid 1243 and 2143. Using tools developed to prove these analogues, we give enumerations and generating functions for permutations which avoid 1243, 2143, and certain a...

Animal studies have shown that visual deprivation during the first months of life permanently impairs the interactions between sensory systems. Here we report an analogous effect for humans who had been deprived of pattern vision for at least the first five months of their life as a result of congenital binocular cataracts. These patients showed reduced audiovisual interactions in later life, a...

In the steady state, dendritic cells (DCs) in the lymph node induce T cell tolerance to self antigens. Innate signals trigger the maturation of tissue DCs, which migrate into lymph nodes and activate T cells. To examine DCs in vivo, we produced transgenic mice whose DCs expressed enhanced yellow fluorescent protein. Two-photon microscopy of lymph nodes in live mice showed that most of the stead...

A mild and efficient catalytic method for synthesis of 5-alkoxycarbonyl-4-aryl-3, 4dihydropyrimidin-2(1H)-ones using KSF montmorillonite as catalyst is described.

Egge and Mansour have recently studied permutations which avoid 1243 and 2143 regarding the occurrence of certain additional patterns. Some of the open questions related to their work can easily be answered by using permutation diagrams. As for 132-avoiding permutations the diagram approach gives insights into the structure of {1243, 2143}-avoiding permutations that yield simple proofs for some...

the total nitrogen content of three barley cultivars: cehada capa (resistant at 25ac), cl 1243 (resistant at 5°c) and rika 1 (susceptible at all temperatures) to puccinia hordei was determined and compared in healthy and infected plants at 5° and 26°c. the results indicate that the total nitrogen content of cv. cehada capa leaves was greater than that of cl 1243 and rika 1 and that of cl 12...

[This corrects the article on p. 1243 in vol. 6, PMID: 26793220.].