Umami is considered to be the fifth basic taste quality and is elicited by glutamate. The mouse is an ideal rodent model for the study of this taste quality because of evidence that suggests that this species, like humans, may sense umami-tasting compounds as unique from other basic taste qualities. We performed single-unit recording of taste responses in the parabrachial nucleus (PbN) of anest...

Ni-deposited mesoporous graphitic carbon nitride (Ni-mpg-CNx) is introduced as an inexpensive, robust, easily synthesizable and recyclable material that functions integrated dual photocatalytic system. This overcomes the need of expensive photosensitizers, organic ligands additives well limitations catalyst deactivation in existing photo/Ni catalytic cross-coupling reactions. The Ni-mpg-CNx dem...

Abstract Wood impregnated with a multicomponent mixture of fatty acids as bio-based phase change material (BPCM) to improve its thermal characteristics was studied. The studied wood/BPCM composites can be used internal elements in buildings for energy storage. Scots pine and beech sapwood were linoleic acid coconut oil at ratio 20:80. Leakage test conducted revealed that the maximum leakage 9 8...

Abstract This paper presents the experimental results of heat transfer coefficient ice slurry in distribution phase order to conserve fish and shellfish where ideal temperature oscillates between 0 °C 2 °C. The required energy power absorbed during exchange air is assimilated transport capacity (in kW cooling at full melt off). secondary fluid was prepared by mixing monopropylene glycol, MPG, w...

Introduction. Increased resistance of the heart to ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) is an urgent aim physiology, pharmacology, and cardiac surgery, since I/R injury often cause cardiogenic shock subsequent death patients in postoperative period. Materials methods. The study was carried out male rats which were subjected coronary artery occlusion (45 min) reperfusion (2 h). Before occlusion, early hyp...

This study aimed to determine the impact of limited face-to-face class intervention on achievements students in English 7. A Post-Test Only Non-equivalence Groups Design was used. total twenty-four (24) respondents were conveniently chosen wherein twelve (12) these attended using modules and other exposed modular print only. The Mann Whitney U test result (U = 114: p .01581), indicates that Lim...

We present high angular resolution (∼ 1 and 0.6) mm-interferometric observations of the CO(1− 0) and CO(2− 1) line emission in the central 300 pc of the late-type spiral galaxy NGC6946. The data, obtained with the IRAM Plateau de Bure Interferometer (PdBI), allow the first detection of a molecular gas spiral in the inner ∼ 10 (270 pc) with a large concentration of molecular Based on observation...

Overexpression of N-methylpurine DNA glycosylase (MPG) has been suggested as a possible gene therapy approach to sensitize tumor cells to the cell-killing effects of temozolomide, an imidazotetrazine-class chemotherapeutic alkylating agent. In the present study, we show that both elevated MPG expression and short hairpin RNA-mediated loss of DNA polymerase (Pol ) expression in human breast canc...

Autophagy is a bulk degradation process in which cytosolic proteins and organelles are degraded through lysosomes. To evaluate autophagic flux in cardiac myocytes, we generated adenovirus and cardiac-specific transgenic mice harboring tandem fluorescent mRFP-GFP-LC3. Starvation significantly increased the number of mRFP-GFP-LC3 dots representing both autophagosomes and autolysosomes per cell, s...

Previous results from our laboratory showed that phosphorylation of ryanodine receptor 2 (RyR2) by Ca(2+) calmodulin-dependent kinase II (CaMKII) was a critical but not the unique event responsible for the production of reperfusion-induced arrhythmogenesis, suggesting the existence of other mechanisms cooperating in an additive way to produce these rhythm alterations. Oxidative stress is a prom...