Rural abandonment and subsequent vegetation regeneration (‘passive rewilding') are expected to increase worldwide, producing cascades of dynamic socioeconomic, landscape biological changes. Although characteristics strongly influence the structure functioning scavengers, little is known about ecological consequences passive rewilding due woody encroachment (i.e.‘landscape closure') on scavengin...

Treated sea water is the most significant source of water and surfactant floods. The various chemicals employed in treatment plants should be compatible with surfactant systems. Based on surface tension experiments, the activity of these chemicals is examined over a wide range of concentrations in different solutions, including distillated water, sea water by using three types of surfactant mix...

treated sea water is the most significant source of water and surfactant floods. the various chemicals employed in treatment plants should be compatible with surfactant systems. based on surface tension experiments, the activity of these chemicals is examined over a wide range of concentrations in different solutions, including distillated water, sea water by using three types of surfactant mix...

glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (g6pd) deficient subjects are vulnerable to oxidative stress. quercetin, a flavonoids, has been employed as a potent oxygen-free radical scavenger in order to assess the protective effects of quercetin against h2o2-induced oxidative damage in g6pd-deficient and normal human erythrocytes. erythrocytes of g6pd-deficient (n = 10) and normal (n = 10) subjects were ...

P latelets play a critical role in thrombotic diseases such as myocardial infarction or ischemic stroke. Beyond their role in thrombosis, platelets are the major trigger in boosting atherosclerosis.2 In patients with hypercholesterolemia, platelets are hyperreactive, indicating that circulating lipoproteins in blood influence platelet properties. Lipidlowering drugs result in a reduction of pla...

We study the kinetics of a diffusion-controlled reaction in which perfect traps (scavengers) diffuse and consume randomly distributed particles. We find that the number of particles remaining after time t decays as exp(-actd”), for spatial dimensions d 1 2 , and as exp(-act) for d 3 2 , where U is a constant, and c is the trap concentration. These predictions are supported by Monte Carlo data i...

We have previously demonstrated that the acetyl low density lipoprotein (LDL), or scavenger, receptor is expressed by rabbit smooth muscle cells (SMCs) and fibroblasts. Moreover, receptor activity in rabbit fibroblasts was regulated over a wide range by preincubating the cells with secretion products from human platelets or with phorbol esters. The current studies were undertaken to examine the...

Background: Several lines of evidence suggest that oxidized LDL (Ox-LDL) scavenger receptors play a crucial role in the genesis and progression of diabetic atherosclerosis. This study aimed to elucidate the effect of vitamin D3 on gene expression of lectin-like oxidized LDL receptor-1 (LOX-1), scavenger receptor-A (SR-A), Cluster of Differentiation 36 (CD36), and Cluster of Differentiation 68 (...