In order to study the role of ADF and CFL1, the two main actin-severing forms of cofilin in epithelial cells (Vartiainen et al., 2002), we intercrossed K14CreERT2 mice with ADF−/− mice and with mice expressing CFL1 flanked with loxP sites (CFL1 fl/fl ) or with mice that were both ADF−/− and CFL1 fl/fl.
Chhinnamasta is popular in Tantric and Tibetan Buddhism, where she is called Chinnamunda ("she with a severed head") – the severed-head form of goddess Vajrayogini or Vajravarahi – a ferocious form of the latter, who is depicted similar to Chhinnamasta.
Annabel Lecter, the woman behind England's Conjurer's Kitchen, take the form of severed baby heads, human skeletons, and taxidermy animals.
The Act also provided that the part of Middlesex in the administrative county of London should be "severed from [Middlesex], and form a separate county for all non-administrative purposes".
Water from severed pipes poured down, forming a treacherous slurry.
Photography could not yet capture the action of battle, but it rendered the horror of its aftermath in indelible form: bloated bodies, severed limbs, bloody corpses, the harvest of death that names and numbers could scarcely portray.
Mona asks each pupil to take something to class that represents a number -- she herself takes an ax that she bought at the hardware store on her birthday, and it becomes the number 7. One boy takes a 1 in the form of the severed arm of his father, which has been encased in glass.
Aravan is always worshipped in temples in the form of his severed head.
Aravan is worshipped in the form of his severed head and is believed to cure disease and induce pregnancy in childless women.
Among the most graphic close-up photographs was one of a perfectly formed -- and severed -- hand, which ran in the late edition of The Daily News of New York.
