Inhalation of radon has been recognized as a health hazard. In the present work radon concentration was measured, in the atmosphere of the archaeological place, namely Catacomb of Kom El-Shuqafa, in Alexandria, Egypt, which is open to the public, using time-integrated passive radon dosimeters containing LR-115 solid-state nuclear track detector. The measurements were performed throughout winter...

AIM To investigate plasma microRNA (miRNA) profiles indicative of hepatotoxicity in the setting of lethal acetaminophen (APAP) toxicity in mice. METHODS Using plasma from APAP poisoned mice, either lethally (500 mg/kg) or sublethally (150 mg/kg) dosed, we screened commercially available murine microRNA libraries (SABiosciences, Qiagen Sciences, MD) to evaluate for unique miRNA profiles betwee...

The Golgi cells have been recently shown to beat regularly in vitro (Forti et al., 2006. J. Physiol. 574, 711-729). Four main currents were shown to be involved, namely a persistent sodium current (I(Na-p)), an h current (I(h)), an SK-type calcium-dependent potassium current (I(K-AHP)), and a slow M-like potassium current (I(K-slow)). These ionic currents could take part, together with others, ...

EM574 exerts gastrointestinal motor stimulating (GMS) activity even after being converted to its metabolites P1 and P2 in dogs. These metabolites were isolated from dog liver using a series of chromatographic procedures. Their structures were determined to be the 15- and 14-hydroxyl derivatives of EM574, respectively, by spectral analysis. Large scale preparation by microbial transformation was...

Background: Whether dysfunctional breathing (DB) subtype classification is useful remains undetermined. The hyperventilation provocation test (HVPT) used to diagnose DB. This begins with a 3-min phase of during which fractional end-tidal CO 2 (FETCO ) decreases that could be an assessment plant gain, relies on stores. Our aim was assess 1) whether the children suffering from different subtypes ...

In the third paragraph of my paper Generalizations of the Bernoulli polynomials and numbers and corresponding summation formulas, published in this Bulletin, vol. 48 (1942), pp. 567-574, no explicit statement is made of the fact that it is assumed that P and Q as operators on x obey the laws: PF(x+c) ]c=0 = PF(x) ; QF(x+c)]c=0 = QF(x). Also the statement ƒ„(()) = 0, should read fn(0) = 0, n>0.

Received by the editors on November 13, 2011. Accepted for publication on July 8, 2013. Handling Editor: Bryan L. Shader. FMF and IMFM, University of Ljubljana, Jadranska 19, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, and IAM, University of Primorska, Slovenia ([email protected]). XLAB d.o.o., Pot za Brdom 100, 1125 Ljubljana, Slovenia, and FMF, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia ([email protected]...