Transgenic crops producing Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxins have been planted widely to control insect pests, yet evolution of resistance by the pests can reduce the benefits of this approach.Recessive mutations in the extracellular domain of toxin-binding cadherin proteins that confer resistance to Bt toxin Cry1Ac by disrupting toxin binding hav
The blood system is supported by hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) found in a specialized microenvironment called the niche.Many different niche Carriers cell types support HSPCs, however how they interact and their ultrastructure has been difficult to define.Here, we show that single endogenous HSPCs can be tracked by light microscop
It was recently demonstrated that TLR4 activation via dietary lipids triggers inflammatory pathway and alters insulin responsiveness in the Differential Cover fat tissue during obesity.Here, we question whether other TLR family members could participate in the TLR-mediated inflammatory processes occurring in the obese adipose tissue.We thus studied
When profiling hospital performance, quality inicators are commonly evaluated through hospital-specific adjusted means with confidence intervals.When identifying deviations from a norm, large hospitals can have statistically significant results even for clinically irrelevant deviations while important deviations in small hospitals can remain undisc
Rice is an important item CoQ 10 in the Iranian agricultural product imports.This paper presents the estimation of an error correction model of linear approximation of the Almost Ideal Demand System for various kinds of imported rice, including Pakistanian, Thai, and others, as well as Iranian rice.The period of the study covers the period1981-2004