"When I was a kid, there were huge hedgehogs in Whitewater Canyon," Clark Moorten recalled one hot afternoon at the garden. We were discussing his favorite cactus genus, Echinocereus. "They ...

The ruby hedgehog makes a fine garden plant for the Coachella Valley and throughout the high desert. It is an essential for the all-native garden, for this ruby is one we cannot live without in ...

“Rants from the Hill” are Michael Branch’s monthly musings on life in the high country of western Nevada’s Great Basin Desert ... us to get her a pet hedgehog. Nobody in the family ...

sonic hedgehog (SHH), Indian hedgehog (IHH) and desert hedgehog (DHH). It may have the most recognizable name, but sonic is not the first time gene therapies have been investigated as a potential ...

Sonic hedgehog (Shh), Indian hedgehog (Ihh), and Desert hedgehog (Dhh). All of these mediator proteins activate the same cell signaling pathway, but individually activate different genes involved ...

Then, similar proteins were found in mammals, including Sonic hedgehog, Indian hedgehog and desert hedgehog. These were shown to be evolutionarily conserved, and thus they established the role of ...

Perhaps the most striking of all the hedgehogs are the claretcup cacti, which can grow to a couple feet in diameter with dozens of stems. Whether in their natural desert haunts or planted in ...

Hes1, a principal effector of the Notch pathway, was found to be a target of Sonic Hedgehog in both C3H/10T1/2 mesodermal and MNS70 neural cells. Desert Hedgehog also elicited a strong Hes1 response.

The study found that desert hedgehog protein is central to the proliferation and differentiation of the stem cells, committing these progenitors to the Leydig cell lineage. In addition ...

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