High molecular weight polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) are synthesized and stored in the cell
cytoplasm as water-insoluble inclusions by various microorganisms. This intriguing …

The authors summarize the recent developments in speckle-tracking echocardiography (STE),
a relatively new technique that can be used in conjunction with two-dimensional or three-…

… Clones from lambda phage libraries and BAC clones selected with the W-chromosome-specific
RAPD marker sequences (4; H. Abe, unpublished data) are composed largely of nested …

… , and WT [Km]) that had been treated with ABA for 10 h at the indicated concentrations. The
plants were transferred to water for 20 h and then treated with ABA. DNA fragments of the full-…

… Numbers above each lane indicate the time in minutes or hours (h) after the initiation of
treatment. (B) Expression of the rd22BP1 gene in Arabidopsis T87 suspensioncultured cells. …

… heat sink, lh is the length of the nanofilm, lh1 and lh2 are the lengths of the left- and right-hand
sides of the nanofilm from the junction point, Rc is the thermal contact resistance, and h is …

Biomechanics has been defined by YC Fung as" mechanics applied to biology." It seeks to
understand the mechanics of living systems, aiming to apply that knowledge to a wide variety …

We used a pulsed Doppler technique to examine the flow velocity pattern in the right
ventricular outflow tract in 33 adults. In the patients with normal pulmonary artery pressure (mean …

We have isolated a cardiomyogenic cell line (CMG) from murine bone marrow stromal cells.
Stromal cells were immortalized, treated with 5-azacytidine, and spontaneously beating …

… used immediately for the assay of GUS activity (control), transferred from agar plates for
hydroponic growth in water (H 2 O) or 100 μM ABA (ABA) solution, or dehydrated for 24 h (dry). …