We utilized quantitative freeze-fracture electron microscopy to study the plasticity of orthogonal clusters of 60-A particles (the “square array”) found in the sarcolemma of fast-twitch muscle. The membrane macromolecular composition of normally slow-twitch rat soleus muscle was examined 1 year after surgical reinnervation by the nerve from fast-twitch extensor digitorum longus muscles. The iso...

The ability of cells to survive freezing and thawing is expected to depend on the physiological conditions experienced prior to freezing. We examined factors affecting yeast cell survival during freeze-thaw stress, including those associated with growth phase, requirement for mitochondrial functions, and prior stress treatment(s), and the role played by relevant signal transduction pathways. Th...

The response of the SouthernOcean to a repeating seasonal cycle of ozone loss is studied in two coupled climate models and is found to comprise both fast and slow processes. The fast response is similar to the interannual signature of the southern annular mode (SAM) on sea surface temperature (SST), onto which the ozone hole forcing projects in the summer. It comprises enhanced northward Ekman ...

Nematodes are the dominant soil animals of the Antarctic Dry Valleys and are capable of surviving desiccation and freezing in an anhydrobiotic state. Genes induced by desiccation stress have been successfully enumerated in nematodes; however, little is known about gene regulation by Antarctic nematodes that can survive multiple types and incidences of environmental stress. In order to reveal th...

SYNOPSIS The effects of nursery practices on freeze tolerance of P taeda and P elliottii seedlings were examined by placing the seedlings in a freezing chamber and lowering the temperature to -10C. Injury was evaluated 10 days after the freeze treatment by examining cambial tissue (browning test). Top-pruning P taeda seedlings (three times) increased freeze tolerance while rootwrenching (six ti...

Little information is available about the precise mechanisms and determinants of freeze resistance in baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genomewide gene expression analysis and Northern analysis of different freeze-resistant and freeze-sensitive strains have now revealed a correlation between freeze resistance and the aquaporin genes AQY1 and AQY2. Deletion of these genes in a laboratory ...

piroxicam (px), an anti-inflammatory drug, exhibits poor water solubility, dissolution and flow properties. thus, the aim of the present study was to improve the solubility and dissolution rate of px by freeze drying technique using dimethylformamide (dmf), chloroform and water as co-solvent system. the prepared crystals containing px were evaluated for dmf and chloroform solvent residual by ga...

production and characterization of soft cross-linked gelatin sponge by using glutaraldehyde for blood hemostasis application, is the goal of this study. biodegradable hydrogels were prepared through crosslinking of gelatin with glutaraldehyde followed by freeze drying. the effects of gelatin concentration, amount of crosslink agent and freeze drying temperature on mechanical properties and elas...

Effects of physical environment on plasma membrane semipermeability and osmotic induction of changes in aqueous cytoplasmic volume were studied in vegetative and spore cells of a plant pathogenic fungus, Fusarium sulphureum. A direct method, employing a spin probe molecule that partitioned between intracellular aqueous and hydrophobic phases, allowed measurement of reversible water movement out...