Type II collagen-positive progenitors are important stem cells in controlling skeletal development and vascular formation

Abstract Type II collagen-positive (Col2+) cells have been reported as skeletal stem cells (SSCs), but the contribution of Col2+ progenitors to skeletal development both prenatally and postnatally during aging remains unclear.To address this question, we generated new mouse models with Hard Hat ablation of Col2+ cells at either the embryonic or pos

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Book Review: Shamionov R. M., Bocharova E. E., Beskova T. V., Grigorieva M. V., Usova N. V., Klenova M. A., Tarasova L. E. Discriminatory Attitudes in the Modern World

Discriminatory attitudes and discrimination of individuals based on their nationality, religion, gender, age, physique, social status are a serious problem of the modern multipolar world.In the monograph of the group of authors (R.M.Shamionov, M.V.Grigorieva, E.E.Bocharova, T.V.Beskova, N.V.Usova, M.A.Klenova, L.E.Tarasova), the results of theoreti

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A Megasecopteron From Upper Carboniferous Strata in Spain

In 1962 Professor F.Stockmans, of the Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, kindly sent me for study two insects from Upper Carboniferous Counter Chair deposits in Northern Spain.One of these (no.94.837), from the Mine de Poleiro, is part of a cockroach tegmen, which cannot be placed with certainty even to family level.The other speci

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