Spatially distinct otic mesenchyme cells show molecular and functional heterogeneity patterns before hearing onset.

The cochlea consists of diverse cellular populations working in harmony to convert mechanical stimuli into electrical signals for the perception of sound. Otic mesenchyme cells (OMCs), often considered a homogeneous cell type, are essential for normal cochlear development and hearing. Despite being the most numerous cell type in the developing cochlea, OMCs are poorly understood.

A New Dyslexia Reading Method and Visual Correction Position Method.

Pediatricians and educators may interact daily with several dyslexic patients or students. One dyslexic author accidently developed a personal, effective, corrective reading method. Its effectiveness was evaluated in 3 schools.

[Scanning electron microscopy study for an analytical key to the Hyalomminae (Ixodidae) species to be found in Italy].

Identification of ticks of Hyalomminae subfamily is easy for the species of subgenus Hyalommasta Schulze (coxa l with two equal, stump and short, well separated spurs) and for those of the subgenera Hyalommina Schulze and Delpyella Santos Dias (basis capituli with lateral margins anteriorly divergent). All the species of subgenus Hyalomma Koch have the coxa I deeply divided in adjacent narrow external spur and wider internal spur, and the basis capituli rectangular, with parallel or subparallel lateral margins. The considerable intraspecific variation in the aforesaid subgenus practically reduces the diagnostic characters to the aspect of dorsal scuta and genital areas in the females and to those of same dorsal scuta in addition to adanals and subanals scuta in the males.

Contribution to the knowledge of Ixodidae ticks of wild mammals of Somalia.

This study was based on material collected in 1983-1984 from wild mammals of the Middle Scebeli. Low Scebeli and Bay Regions of Somalia. A total of 292 specimens (156 males, 65 females, 70 nymphase, 1 larva) from 13 host species were examined.