NESTING BOX IMAGER: CONTACT-FREE, REAL-TIME MEASUREMENT OF ACTIVITY, SURFACE BODY TEMPERATURE, AND RESPIRATORY RATE APPLIED TO HIBERNATING MOUSE MODELS.

Noncontact methods to measure animal activity and physiology are necessary to monitor undisturbed states such as hibernation.Although some noncontact measurement systems are commercially available, they are often incompatible with realistic habitats, which feature freely moving animals in small, cluttered environments.A growing market of single-boa

Abstract Previous study showed that higher expression of prolactin (PRL) was found in CRPC samples compared with hormone-naive prostate cancer (HNPC) and benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) samples.We further investigate the function of PRL in prostate cancer (PCa) and explored its downstream effects.We found heterogeneous expression of the PRLR in

The cotton direct seeding after wheat (rape) harvested is under trial and would be the future direction at the Yangtze River Valley region of China.The objective of this study was to quantify the effects of branch and stem architecture on cotton yield and identify the optimal cotton architecture to compensate the yield loss due to the reduction of