The article provides a survey of ideas and initiatives advanced by Christian and Muslim religious leaders and believers towards a mutual religious rapprochement in the past more than fifty years.On the Christian side, the process was started at the Second Vatican Council and developed with the great personal involvement of all popes of the head tot
Advances in genome sequencing technologies have enabled researchers and breeders to rapidly associate phenotypic variation to genome sequence differences.We recently took advantage of next-generation sequencing technology to develop MutMap, a method that allows rapid identification of causal nucleotide changes of rice mutants by whole genome resequ
Organochlorine pesticides such as Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) were widely used in agriculture and vector disease control worldwide.Despite its ban in production and application since the 1970s in many countries, its residues in water, air and soil have been reported.Organochlorine pesticides have been propo
Background Chronic dyspnoea and exercise impairment are common after acute pulmonary embolism (PE) but are not defined and quantified sufficiently to serve as outcomes in clinical trials.The planned project will clinically validate a novel method to determine discrete, clinically meaningful diagnoses after acute PE.The method uses an algorithm enti
K+ channel blockers like 3,4-diaminopyridine (DAP) can double isometric muscle force.Functional movements require more complex concentric and texstar peach eccentric contractions, however the effects of K+ channel blockade on these types of contractions in situ are unknown.Extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscles were stimulated in situ with and wit