Myometrial relaxation of mouse via expression of two-pore domain acid sensitive (TASK) channels was studied. In our previous report, we suggested that two-pore domain acid-sensing K(+) channels (TASK-2) might be one of the candidates for the regulation of uterine circular smooth muscles in mice. In this study, we tried to show the mechanisms of relaxation via TASK-2 channels in marine myometriu...

Along the base of glaciers and ice sheets, the sliding of ice over till depends critically on water drainage. In locations where drainage occurs through Röthlisberger channels, the effective pressure along the base of the ice increases and can lead to a strengthening of the bed, which reduces glacier sliding. The formation of Röthlisberger channels depends on two competing effects: (1) melting ...

Metamaterial absorbers can provide good solutions for radar-cross-section (RCS) reduction. In spite of their attractive features of thinness, lightness, and low cost, resonant metamaterial absorbers have a drawback of narrow bandwidth. For practical radar applications, wideband absorbers are necessary. In this paper, we propose a wideband-switchable metamaterial absorber using liquid metal. In ...

An instrumental module for external circular grinding has been developed, using methods of intermittent processing with replaceable abrasive bars a combined supply coolant through the pores and channels between them, its activation in special cavitation nozzles. Is to develop method inter-mittent tool that ensures stable operation wheel efficient cutting fluid zone. The assembling which provide...

Many applications with stream processing behavior contain one or more loops with an unknown number of iterations. These loops have to be parallelized in order to utilize the maximum capacity of an embedded multiprocessor platform and thus increase the total throughput. This thesis presents a method to automatically extract a parallel task graph based on function level parallelism from a sequent...

Spinal afferent neurons play a major role in detecting noxious and innocuous stimuli from visceral organs, such as the gastrointestinal tract. However, all our understanding about spinal afferents has been obtained from recordings of spinal afferent axons, or cell bodies that lie outside the gut wall, or peripheral organ they innervate. No recordings have been made directly from spinal afferent...

Potassium channels are important contributors to membrane excitability in smooth muscles. There are regional differences in resting membrane potential and K(+)-channel density along the length of the feline circular smooth muscle esophagus. The aim of this study was to assess responses of K(+)-channel currents to cholinergic (ACh) stimulation along the length of the feline circular smooth muscl...

Mechanotransduction is required for a wide variety of biological functions. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of activation of a mechanosensitive Ca(2+) channel, present in human jejunal circular smooth muscle cells, on whole cell currents and on membrane potential. Currents were recorded using patch-clamp techniques, and perfusion of the bath (10 ml/min, 30 s) was used to mecha...

Plasma pH can be altered during pregnancy and at labor. Membrane excitability of smooth muscle including uterine muscle is suppressed by the activation of K(+) channels. Because contractility of uterine muscle is regulated by extracellular pH and humoral factors, K(+) conductance could be connected to factors regulating uterine contractility during pregnancy. Here, we showed that TASK-2 inhibit...

Novel composites of highly ordered and stable biphenyl-bridged periodic mesoporous organosilica (PMO) materials confined within the pores of anodic alumina membranes (AAM) were successfully synthesized by evaporation-induced self-assembly (EISA). 4,40-Bis(triethoxysilyl)biphenyl (BTEBP) was used as a precursor in combination with the ionic surfactant cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) or tri...