The concept of biomedical significance of the functional pairing between tissue lectins and their glycoconjugate counterreceptors has reached the mainstream of research on the flow of biological information. A major challenge now is to identify the principles of structure–activity relationships that underlie specificity of recognition and the ensuing post-binding processes. Toward this end, we focus on a distinct feature on th...

A new method for collecting pore‐water samples in gravel streambeds is presented. We developed a mini drivepoint solution sampling (MINIPOINT) technique to collect pore‐water samples at 2.5‐cm vertical resolution. The sampler consisted of six small‐diameter stainless steel drivepoints arranged in a 10‐cm‐diameter circular array. In a simple procedure, the sampler was installed in the streambed to preset drivepoint depths of 2....