In order to evaluate the effects of hyperthermia on adriamycin cardiomyopathy and its relationship with heat shock protein induction and myosin accumulation, female Sprague-Dawley rats (21-24 days) were randomized into four groups: the control, adriamycin, temperature and temperature-adriamycin groups. Adriamycin was injected i.v. at a dose of 27 mg/Kg (0.1 ml). The rats were exposed to a tempe...

Escherichia coli thyAl is a temperature-sensitive mutant altered in the structural gene for thymidylate synthetase. A previous study from this laboratory has shown that thyAl belongs to a new class of temperature-sensitive mutants (Group IV) and is blocked in the synthesis of thymidylate synthetase at the level of the polyribosome complex. The block has been postulated to result from a conforma...

The relation between the composition of the phospholipid molecular species in a cell membrane and the velocity of protoplast fusion was studied using cells cultured at a low temperature (10 C). Cells cultured at a low temperature contained larger proportions of phospholipids of low phase transition point, the 1,2-dilinoleoyl-type, than those cultured at a normal temperature (25 C). When treated...

The objective of this study was to look into the microbiological and chemical variations of cod fish. Samples were collected from raw material on a processing line and also from whole fish prior to mincing. Measurements on microbial load (Pseudomonas, Achromobacter, Flavobacterium, Coryneform and Micrococcus) were performed and also change in micro-organism and enzyme growth by temperature was ...

We have studied experimentally the effect of ambient temperature on performance of the surface-passivated Al0.2Ga0.8N/GaN heterostructure field-effect transistors in the temperature range from 25°C to 250°C. The measured data have been compared with physics-based modeling of the GaN transistor characteristics under different ambient temperatures. The experimental data, showing about 33% degrada...

Background: Sports, hypothermia and hyperthermia as some stressors inhibit male reproductive functions and are associated with subfertility or infertility. We investigated whether water temperature and chronic swimming are effective on mouse sperm parameters. Materials and Methods: Adult male mouse(N=35) were randomly divided into 7 groups: 1-controls 2-cold water (100C) with swimming 3- cold w...

UNLABELLED The effects of temperature and salinity on the metabolism of the Asiatic clam Corbicula fluminea (mollusca, Lamellibranchia) were studied experimentally. Firstly, three indexes of basal metabolism (oxygen consumption rate, OCR; ammonia excretion rate, AER; and CO2 emission rate, CER), patterns of diurnal rhythm and O: N ratios were measured for three size ranges (large: h = 25.54 ± 1...