The effects of a 7-day period of daily physical stress (chasing until exhaustion) on the beta-adrenergic response of the rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) red blood cell (rbc) were examined in vitro. Physical stress was associated with pronounced increases in the circulating levels of the catecholamine hormones (adrenaline and noradrenaline) measured on days 1, 3 and 7 of the stress regime. A...

AIM To investigate RBC-NOS dependent NO signaling during in vivo RBC aging in health and disease. METHOD RBC from fifteen healthy volunteers (HC) and four patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) were separated in seven subpopulations by Percoll density gradient centrifugation. RESULTS The proportion of old RBC was significantly higher in DM compared to HC. In both groups, in vivo aging ...

Background and Objective: This study investigated the influence of beers different alcohol content on haematological indices male albino rats. Materials Methods: Three brands commonly consumed within Nigeria were purchased administered to experimental animals for 21 days. Group 1 was control. 2 group 3 10 mL/kg bw 20 beer A respectively. 4 5 B respectively, while 6 7 C The analysis carried out ...

The public sewage (PS) and night soil mixed with johkasou sludge (JO) have similar chemical compositions; however, the concentrations of organic matter nitrogen compounds were different. We investigated microbial community rotating biological contactor (RBC) units treating PS JO, in which RBC was submerged liquor activated sludge. Here, we observed that compositions at phylum class levels betwe...

Neonatal erythrocytes (N-RBC) are different from adult erythrocytes (A-RBC). N-RBC are larger, less deformable, and undergo enhanced spontaneous and drug-induced endocytosis. The reticulocyte population of N-RBC is also different, consisting primarily of the youngest (R1) reticulocytes that are motile and capable of receptor-mediated endocytosis. Processes such as motility could require a contr...

A recently proposed streaming media file caching algorithm, called Resource Based Caching (RBC), considers the impact of both file size and required delivery bandwidth in making cache insertion and replacement decisions. Previous comparisons between RBC and the least-frequency-used (LFU) policy conclude that RBC provides a better byte hit ratio in the cache. This paper revisits this policy comp...