We have previously shown (Iles et al., 1980) that the metabolism of fructose may be followed in isolated rat livers by using 3*P n.m.r. spectroscopy. The introduction of the surfacecoil technique (Ackerman et al., 1980) makes it possible to study metabolism in the anaesthetized animal. A fed male Wistar rat was anaesthetized by intraperitoneal sodium pentobarbital, catheterized in the right jug...

We describe a novel and simple operation method of using a self-sensitive cantilever of an atomic force microscopy (AFM) system in liquid. As for operation of the cantilever in liquid, Al lines of an integrated piezoresistor patterned on the cantilever are easily damaged by electrochemical corrosion. To realize safe operation without the damage, an additional electrode was inserted into the liq...

The membrane models of (Cannon et al. [l] and Alberink et al. [2 ] for mammaliain skeletal muscle fibers are based upon Hodgkin-Huxley descriptions of sodium, potassium delayed rectifier and leak conductance’s and the capacitive current taking into account fast inactivation of sodium channels. Now inward rectifier and chloride ion currents, sodiumpotassium oump and slow inactivation of sodium c...

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Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the source is credited. DOI 10.3109/17453670903039551 In the past few years hip spacers have become popular in the treatment of infected total hip arthroplasties (THAs), with reported infecti...

Introduction Fibularis tertius (FT), formerly known as peroneus tertius is a unique muscle in human being, often considered as a fifth tendon of extensor digitorum longus. The muscle originates from the distal one third or medial fibular surface, anterior surface of the interosseous membrane and anterior crural intermuscular septum. Thereafter, the tendon runs beneath the superior extensor reti...

Previous research on the perception of consonant clusters by Japanese native speakers has revealed that they are highly likely to perceive a vowel between the two consonants even if there are no vowels inserted (Dupoux et al. 1999). The present study further investigates this issue but by dividing the group of Japanese native speakers into two groups: Japanese-English bilinguals and Japanese mo...

We present a simple algorithm which maintains the topological order of a directed acyclic graph with n nodes under an online edge insertion sequence in Õ(n) time, independent of the number of edges m inserted. For dense DAGs, this is an improvement over the previously best result of O(min{m 32 log n,m 32 +n log n}) by Katriel et al. We also provide an empirical comparison of our algorithm with ...

This letter demonstrates bi-layer channel Al-doped ZnO/ZnO thin film transistors (AZO/ZnO TFTs) via atomic layer deposition process at a relatively low temperature. The effects of annealing in oxygen atmosphere at different temperatures have also been investigated. The ALD bi-layer channel AZO/ZnO TFTs annealed in dry O2 at 300 °C exhibit a low leakage current of 2.5 × 10-13A, I on/I off ratio ...

Given two sets of points in the plane, we are interested in locating a highway h such that an objective function on the city distance between points of the two sets is minimized (where the city distance is measured with speed v > 1 on a highway and 1 in the underlying metric elsewhere). Extending the results of Ahn et al. ([7]), we consider the option that there are already some built highways....