Predicting habitat suitability of the critically endangered Be'er Sheva fringe-fingered lizard.

Anthropogenic changes, such as land use, are the main drivers causing climate change and biodiversity loss, with hundreds of thousands of species lacking sufficient habitats for their populations to persist and likely to go extinct within decades. Endemic species are more susceptible to habitat changes and are at the forefront of the biodiversity crisis. We used species distribution models to generate a relative habitat suitability map and identified the habitat requirements of the critically endangered and endemic Be'er Sheva fringe-fingered lizard ().

Monoterpenes Differently Regulate Acid-Sensitive and Mechano-Gated K Channels.

Potassium K ("leak") channels conduct current across the entire physiological voltage range and carry leak or "background" currents that are, in part, time- and voltage-independent. The activity of K channels affects numerous physiological processes, such as cardiac function, pain perception, depression, neuroprotection, and cancer development. We have recently established that, when expressed in oocytes, K2.

The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project.

The PREDICTS project-Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems (www.predicts.org.

Multiplexed magnetic nanoparticle-antibody conjugates (MNPs-ABS) based prognostic detection of ovarian cancer biomarkers, CA-125, β-2M and ApoA1 using fluorescence spectroscopy with comparison of surface plasmon resonance (SPR) analysis.

A multiplexed MNPs-Abs based fluorescence spectroscopic system in analysis of serum biomarkers; CA-125, β2-M and ApoA1 for the early detection of ovarian cancer was first time proposed. The lowest detection limits measured in multiplexed setup were 0.26 U/mL, 0.

Involvement of lysine residues in the gating of the ryanodine receptor/Ca2+-release channel of skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum.

In this study, the modification of skeletal muscle ryanodine receptor (RyR)/Ca2+-release channel with 7-chloro-4-nitrobenzo-2-oxa-1,3,-diazole (Nbd-Cl) demonstrates that lysyl residues are involved in the channel gating. Nbd-Cl was found to have a dual effect: stimulation and inhibition of ryanodine binding and single channel activities. Nbd-Cl, in a time-dependent manner, first stimulated and subsequently inhibited ryanodine binding to both membrane-bound and purified RyR.