The authors would like to thank Dr.Carl Ng,Ms.Frances Downey,Dr.Carlotta Sacchi and Dr.Alan Farrell for their technical assistance throughout this study.The authors are also grateful to the scholarship funding(CZ)from The China Scholarship Council and University College Dublin.
Urea nitrogen secreted from blood to rumen is a crucial factor shaping the symbiotic relationship between host ruminants and their microbial populations.Passage of urea across rumen epithelia is facilitated by urea tr...
Objective: The aim of the present study was to check the potential interaction of two neurodevelopmental proteins, Disc1 and Gas7, in the adult mice brain. Methods: Twenty-four male Swiss albino mice were used for the...
BACKGROUND The epiphyseal growth plate is an important anatomical segment localized on the ends of a long bone.Despite the abovementioned atractive reasons for alendronate’s use,few data on the effect of alendronate ...
The transverse section of compression wood tracheids has a circular shape and intercellular spaces. The cause has not been determined yet;however, we hypothesized that peeling of the cell wall adhesion would cause cel...
Burying beetles (Nicrophorus sp.) are necrophagous insects with developed parental care. Genome of Nicrophorus vespilloides has been recently sequenced, which makes them interesting model organism in behavioral ecolog...
This work was supported by the China National ‘973' Basic Research Program (2012CBl14104) and the Na- tional Natural Science Foundation of China (31272048, 31471778, and 31672038).
Niemann-Pick type C2 (NPC2) is a type of small soluble protein involved in lipid metabolism and triglyceride accumulation in vertebrates and arthropods. Recent stud- ies have determined that NPC2 also participates i...
AMP-activated kinase (AMPK), a protein that regulates energy balance and metabolism, has recently been identified in boar spermatozoa where regulates key functional sperm processes essential for fertilization. This ...
The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of trigonelline (TRG) on Echinococcus granulo- sus, and to explore the inhibition impact of nuclear factor erythroid-2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) signal- ing pathwa...
Supported by Development of Medical Science and Technology Project of Jiangsu Province,No.YKK13205
AIM To determine the expression and localization of the electrogenic Na^+/HCO_3^- cotransporter(NBC1) in rat pancreas during development. METHODS The rat pancreas from postnatal and embryos removed from the uterus of ...
Ephexin-1 functions as guanine nucleotide exchange factors for the Rho-type GTPases which have important roles in neuronal development including axon guidance, migration, morphogenesis, and plasticity of neurons. As l...