We give some explicit values of the constants $C_{1}$ and $C_{2}$ in the inequality $C_{1}/{\sin (\frac{\pi }{p})}\le \left| P\right| _{p}\le C_{2}/{\sin (\frac{\pi }{p})}$ where $\left| P\right| _{p}$ denotes the norm of the Bergman projection on the $L^{p}$ space.
Gravid females of two species of philometrid nematodes (Philometridae) were collected from marine perciform fishes in Japanese waters, mainly from the southern Sea of Japan. Based on light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy examinations, the previously described but poorly known species Philometra cryptocentri Yamaguti, 1961 is redescribed from specimens recovered from the abdominal cavity of Acanthogobius flavimanus (Temminck et Schlegel), Pterogobius elapoides (Günther) and P. zonoleucus Jordan et Snyder (all Gobiidae) (all new host records); the number (14) and arrangement of cephalic papillae in this species are described for the first time. The new species, Philometroides branchiostegi sp. n. from head tissues of Branchiostegus japonicus (Houttuyn) (Malacanthidae), based on a single specimen, is mainly characterized by the embossment of the entire body except for the cephalic end, presence of four submedian pairs of large cephalic papillae of external circle and two small lateral single papillae of internal circle, pair of large papilla-like caudal projections, the oesophagus with a distinct anterior inflation, by a markedly small body (length about 18 mm) and the larvae 306-465 µm long.
A new nematode species, Rhabdochona (Globochona) kurdistanensis sp. n. (Rhabdochonidae), is decribed based on specimens collected from the intestine of the barbel Luciobarbus kersin (Heckel) (Cyprinidae) in the Greater Zab (type locality) and the Lesser Zab Rivers, Tigris River basin, Kurdistan Region, northern Iraq. It is mainly characterized by a prostom with 8 anterior teeth, the presence of basal prostomal teeth, bifurcated deirids, length ratio of the muscular and glandular portions of oesophagus (1:14.4-17.8), conspicuously short left spicule (180-204 µm), arrangement of genital papillae, nonfilamented eggs, and by having cuticular ornamentations on the tail tip (2 lateral denticular outgrowths in female and numerous fine spines in male). Description of a gravid female of Rhabdochona (Rhabdochona) sp. with 14 anterior prostomal teeth and filamented eggs, recorded from L. kersin of the Greater Zab River, is also provided. R. kurdistanensis sp. n. is the fifth valid species of Rhabdochona Railliet, 1916 and the only representative of the subgenus Globochona Moravec, 1972 recorded from Iraq.
Effects of low-frequency electromagnetic fields (LF EMF) on the
activation of different tissue recovery processes have not yet
been fully understood. The detailed quantification of LF EMF
effects on the angiogenesis were analysed in our experiments by
using cultured human and mouse endothelial cells. Two types of
fields were used in the tests as follows: the LF EMF with
rectangular pulses, 340-microsecond mode at a frequency of
72 Hz and peak intensity 4 mT, and the LF EMF with sinusoidal
alternating waveform 5 000 Hz, amplitude-modulated by means
of a special interference spectrum mode set to a frequency linear
sweep from 1 to 100 Hz for 6 s and from 100 Hz to 1 Hz return
also for 6 s, swing period of 12 second. Basic parameters of
cultured cells measured after the LF EMF stimulus were viability
and proliferation acceleration. Both types of endothelial cells
(mouse and human ones) displayed significant changes in the
proliferation after the application of the LF EMF under conditions
of a rectangular pulse mode. Based on the results, another test
of the stimulation on a more complex endothelial-fibroblast
coculture model will be the future step of the investigation.