1981; Gish and Jury, 1983; Edwards et al., 1993). Both physical and biological processes have temporal and Structural pores associated with macropore-type preferential flow spatial patterns of formation and destruction cycles pathways can accelerate chemical transport in unsaturated soils, thereby potentially causing groundwater contamination. To predict chemical (Gupta et al., 2002). Tillage p...

The voltage sensors of voltage-gated ion channels undergo a conformational change upon depolarization of the membrane that leads to pore opening. This conformational change can be measured as gating currents and is thought to be transferred to the pore domain via an annealing of the covalent link between voltage sensor and pore (S4-S5 linker) and the C terminus of the pore domain (S6). Upon pro...

؉ Channels labeling studies of KcsA suggest that K ϩ channels may gate by rotating the inner helices that line the pore (Per-ozo et al., 1999). In this model, the degree of rotation of the helices regulates the aperture of the inner mouth of the pore that opens and closes like the shutters of a San Francisco, California 94143 camera. For voltage-gated K ϩ channels, this model is broadly consist...

Rutile-phase TiO2 nanotube arrays without broken walls were formed by annealing of anodically formed nanotubes in a propane flame at 650 °C and in air at 750 °C. An unusual morphological transformation was observed from the ellipsoidal pore-shapes of titania nanotubes grown in aqueous electrolyte to a square-shaped pore structure subsequent to the anneals. 750 °C annealed nanotubes were found t...

Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) fuse the two membranes of the nuclear envelope (NE) to a pore, connecting cytoplasm and nucleoplasm and allowing exchange of macromolecules between these compartments. Most NPC proteins do not contain integral membrane domains and thus it is largely unclear how NPCs are embedded and anchored in the NE. Here, we show that the evolutionary conserved nuclear pore prot...

Introduction In this study, we contemplate to prepare a new type of scaffold which mimics natural bone and consists of three different components, namely biphasic polymeric base from two different biodegradable polymers prepared by using dual porogen approach, bioactive agents, i.e., collagen and hydroxyapatite (HA) particles which distributed throughout the scaffold only on the pore surfaces. ...