Advancements in Mass Rearing the Air Potato Beetle .

The air potato beetle, Gressitt and Kimoto (Coleoptera:Chrysomelidae) is a successful biological control agent of the air potato vine, L. (Dioscoreales: Dioscoreaceae) in the southern United States. is currently being mass-reared by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Division of Plant Industry (FDACS-DPI) for biological control releases and research.

[Perioperative management of patients on NOACs].

Regarding thromboembolic events, non-vitamin K antagonists, so-called new oral anticoagulative agents (NOACs), have widely enlarged prophylaxis and therapy. In contrast to vitamin K antagonists they can be administered in a definite dose and do not need any regular control of coagulation parameters. Thus being simple in handling, these drugs have become enormously attractive for both patient and physician.

Mu-opioid receptor densities are depleted in regions implicated in agonistic and sexual behavior in male European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) defending nest sites and courting females.

Social status and resource availability can strongly influence individual behavioral responses to conspecifics. In European starlings, males that acquire nest sites sing in response to females and dominate other males. Males without nest sites sing, but not to females, and they do not interact agonistically with other males.

Adult Asthma Consensus Guidelines update 2003.

Background: Several sets of Canadian guidelines for the diagnosis and management of asthma have been published over the past 15 years. Since the last revision of the 1999 Canadian Asthma Consensus Report, important new studies have highlighted the need to incorporate new information into the asthma guidelines.

Objectives: To review the literature on adult asthma management published between January 2000 and June 2003; to evaluate the influence of the new evidence on the recommendations made in the 1999 Canadian Asthma Consensus Guidelines and its 2001 update; and to report new recommendations on adult asthma management.

[Specificity of "combi-effect" after xenogenic discordant heart-lung transplantation].

Unlabelled: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the "Combi-Effect" is specific for the transplanted lung tissue or not.

Method: In a Guinea-pig to rat model we compared the heterotopic heart-lung transplantation (HLTx, n = 5) with a second heart transplantation (DHTx, n = 5) and a combined heart-kidney transplantation (HKTx, n = 5). Apart from the heart transplant survival time we determined the concentrations of histamine, CH-50, IgG, IgM, leucocytes and thrombocytes in the blood.