Background and Objective: Most patients with papillary carcinoma of the thyroid gland (PTC) have favorable outcome, but since it has severe capability to invade the nearby tissues, there is a great risk of regional and distal lymph-nodes (LNs) metastases related to poor prognostic parameters, early recurrences, and distant metastasis that lead to bad patient outcome. ...

Anoxygenic photosynthesis based on Fe(II) is thought to be one of the most ancient forms of metabolism and is hypothesized to represent a transition step in the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis. However, little is known about the molecular basis of this process because, until recently (Y. Jiao and D. K. Newman, J. Bacteriol. 189:1765-1773, 2007), most phototrophic Fe(II)-oxidizing bacteria ...

Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) subpopulations in several areas with seasonal sea ice regimes have shown declines in body condition, reproductive rates, or abundance as a result of declining sea ice habitat. In the Foxe Basin region of Nunavut, Canada, the size of the polar bear subpopulation has remained largely stable over the past 20 years, despite concurrent declines in sea ice habitat. We use...

FoxE is a protein encoded by the foxEYZ operon of Rhodobacter ferrooxidans SW2 that is involved in Fe(II)-based anoxygenic photosynthesis (`photoferrotrophy'). It is thought to reside in the periplasm, where it stimulates light-dependent Fe(II) oxidation. It contains 259 residues, including two haem c-binding motifs. As no three-dimensional model is available and there is no structure with a si...

In the Hudson Bay/James Bay Lowlands, along the coasts of Banks Island, and along the eastern coast of Baffin Island are continuous and extensive sections in Quaternary sediments. These sections are rich in marine fossils, buried peats, and soils and contain a wide variety of glaciagenic sediments together with glacial marine units and littoral deposits. Lake muds are also fairly common. All th...

Skottun & Skoyles [Skottun and Skoyles (2009). On interpreting responses to low contrast stimuli in terms of magnocellular activity – a few remarks. Vision Research] have written a comment on our recent paper (Lalor & Foxe, 2009). Specifically they raise the following three issues: (1) spatial resolution and temporal tuning are similar in magnoand parvocellular neurons. (2) Results from lesion ...

Isaac Childres, Luis A. Jauregui, Michael Foxe, Jifa Tian, Romaneh Jalilian, Igor Jovanovic, and Yong P. Chen Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA School of Nuclear Engineer...

The recent identification of a mutation in Foxe3 that causes congenital primary aphakia in humans marks an important milestone. Congenital primary aphakia is a rare developmental disease in which the lens does not form. Previously, Foxe3 had been shown to play a crucial role in vertebrate lens formation and this gene is one of the earliest integrators of several signaling pathways that cooperat...

Multi-locus genotype and sex were used to identify individual bowhead whales Balaena mysticetus from 710 samples collected between 1995 and 2010 at 4 localities in eastern Canada (Foxe Basin, Pelly Bay, Repulse Bay, and Cumberland Sound) and at 1 locality in West Greenland (Disko Bay). In total, 29 recaptures of the same individuals were identified between years, of which 26 individuals were re...