Abstract We used mixture design to predict rheological parameters, namely the storage and loss modulus $$G'$$ G ′ $$G''$$ critical stress $$\sigma _{c}$$ σ c , of mixtures Laponite EP benton...

The present study was designed to evaluate the ability of magnesium sulfate (30 mg/kg, iv, 24 hr and 2 hr prior) to limit myocardial infarct size following permanent left coronary artery occlusion in adult mongrel dogs. Non-perfused myocardium which is the area at risk was visualised by injecting methylene blue intraatrially, 24 hr after coronary artery occlusion. The infarcted myocardium was v...

5. Adenosine diphosphate (ADP) was less inhibitory than ATP when it replaced part of the latter; inosine triphosphate had little inhibitory effect. Over a similar range, increasing concentration of uridine triphosphate produced progressively increasing inhibition. 6. No inhibitory action on the magnesiumactivated myofibrillar ATPase could be demonstrated with myokinase preparations. 7. Ethylene...

The photosynthetic oxygen-evolving activity of the photosystem 2 complex, prepared from spinach, was labile when the complex was exposed to high-salt conditions under which the extrinsic proteins were dissociated from the complex. Glycinebetaine prevented the dissociation of the 18-kDa and the 23-kDa extrinsic proteins from the photosystem 2 complex in the presence of 1 M NaCl. It also prevente...

UNLABELLED The purpose of the present study was to assess the effect of two types of evacuated blood collection tube on the prothrombin time and international sensitivity index (ISI) of Recombiplastin, a recombinant human thromboplastin. Vacutainer tubes were compared with Venoject II tubes. Magnesium contamination was detected in the sodium citrate solutions contained in the Vacutainer tubes w...

A23187 is a carboxylic acid antibiotic which simultaneously uncouples oxidative phosphorylation and inhibits ATPase of rat liver mitochondria incubated in a magnesium-free medium. The antibiotic acts as a freely mobile carrier to transport calcium and magnesium, but not potassium, from an aqueous medium buffered at pH 7.4 into a bulk organic phase. A23187 causes a progressive release of endogen...