AN OVERLOOKED MANDIBULAR-RUBBING BEHAVIOR USED DURING RECRUITMENT BY THE AFRICAN WEAVER ANT, OECOPHYLLA LONGINODA.

An overlooked mandibular-rubbing behavior used during recruitment by the African weaver ant, Oecophylla longinoda.

In Oecophylla, an ant genus comprising two territorially dominant arboreal species, workers are known to (1) use anal spots to mark their territories, Accessories (2) drag their gaster along the substrate to deposit short-range recruitment trails, and (3) drag the extruded rectal gland along the substrate to deposit the trails used in long-range re

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Mechanisms contributing to inhibition of retinal ganglion cell death by cell permeable peptain-1 under glaucomatous stress

Abstract This study assesses the neuroprotective potential of CPP-P1, a conjugate of an anti-apoptotic peptain-1 (P1) and a cell-penetrating peptide (CPP) in in vitro, in vivo, and ex vivo glaucoma models.Primary retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) were subjected to either neurotrophic factor (NF) deprivation for 48 h or endothelin-3 (ET-3) treatment for

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