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Rare species of butterflies and delicate hummingbirds take to the air, and crocodiles and manatees still live in and around vast tracts of mangrove swamp in the south.
Extolling the virtues of manual labor, they acquired huge tracts of farmland from absentee Syrian and Lebanese landlords.
However, the orientation of GFAP-immunoreactivity was mostly in parallel with the longitudinal axis of both md and Wt fiber tracts (Fig.
A role of Nogo in restricting the orientation of neurite growth is further supported by studies showing that IN-1-sensitive inhibitors expressed in the already-myelinated sensory tracts of the rat spinal cord appeared to restrict the position of developing corticospinal axons [ 48].
Earlier studies have shown that DAP, in DNA fragments, can widen the minor groove, as detected by reactivity towards uranyl nitrate or susceptibility to Dnase cleavage [ 29 ] , and can relieve compressions in the minor groove associated with A-tracts [ 30 ] . In contrast, NMR and molecular modeling studies of an oligonucleotide duplex containing MeC have demonstrated that, while this duplex still has a B-DNA conformation, there are differences in the structural parameters and thermal stability relative to the unmodified duplex [ 31 ] . An earlier study also found, in two closely related octanucleotide duplexes, that although the methylated duplexes retained their B-DNA conformation, different structural and thermal stability effects were seen [ 32 ] . Although these studies have been carried out with DNA-DNA and not DNA-RNA duplexes, it is possible that MeC substitution may have different structural consequences than DAP substitution.
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