Calcium concentration influences keratinocyte differentiation, and, following injury, keratinocytes move through an environment of changing calcium levels. Because these migrating cells in wounds invariably express collagenase 1, we assessed if modulation of calcium levels regulates collagenase 1 production by primary human keratinocytes. Accurately reflecting the confined spatial pattern of en...

A range of crystalline and nano-sized carbonate- and silicate-substituted hydroxyapatite has been successfully produced by using continuous hydrothermal flow synthesis technology. Ion-substituted calcium phosphates are better candidates for bone replacement applications (due to improved bioactivity) as compared to phase-pure hydroxyapatite. Urea was used as a carbonate source for synthesising p...

Calcium hexaluminate (CA6) was incorporated into the matrix of magnesio aluminate spinel-alumina (MA-A) via infiltration of a porous preform fabricated from α-Al2O3 and MgO powders with a saturated calcium acetate solution and subsequent firing, forming CA6/(MA-A) functionally composites with graded fracture toughness. Actually, the porous preform was partially and perpendicularly immersed (1/4...

We show here that NFAT1 is rapidly activated, then slowly deactivated, by stimulation of T cells through their antigen receptor. Within minutes of T-cell receptor stimulation, NFAT1 is dephosphorylated, translocates from the cytoplasm into the nucleus, and shows an increase in its ability to bind to DNA. These changes are dependent on calcium mobilization and calcineurin activation, since they ...

The aim of the present work was to assess the effects of activation of NMDA receptors in rat brain in vivo on calcium homeostasis in isolated non-synaptic brain mitochondria. We have shown recently that acute intoxication with large doses of ammonia leads to activation of NMDA receptors in rat brain in vivo. In the present work we injected rats with ammonium acetate to activate NMDA receptors i...

BACKGROUND We determined recently that targeted treatment with calcium-based phosphate binders (calcium acetate and carbonate) led to progressive coronary artery and aortic calcification by electron beam tomography (EBT), while treatment with the non-calcium-containing phosphate binder, sevelamer, did not. Aside from the provision of calcium, we hypothesized that other factors might be related ...

Excessive calcium influx is important in the irreversible injury of cardiac myocytes and other cell types. The mechanism is unknown, but possibilities include L-type channels, Na(+)-Ca2+ exchange, sarcolemmal (SL) defects, and calcium leak channels. In this study, metabolic inhibition was used to induce ATP depletion and augmented calcium influx in cultured cardiac myocytes. Inhibition of the L...

effects of 28 days lead acetate (ioc, 500, 1000 ppm) treatment on hypertension ami relationship between blood lead levels and hypertension in male. spraguc-dawley rats were studied. results of this study showed tlxat lead acetate treatment did run decrease, body wcight or water consumption, except for lead acetate (1000 ppm) and sodium acetate (500 ppm) which increased fluid consumption when co...

□S Influence of the Stereoisomeric Position of the Reactive Acetate Groups of the Benzo[b]Acronycine derivative S23906-1 on Its DNA Alkylation, Helix-Opening, Cytotoxic, and Antitumor Activities Sabine Depauw, Thomas Gaslonde, Stéphane Léonce, Laurence Kraus-Berthier, William Laine, Gaëlle Lenglet, Angèle Chiaroni, Bruno Pfeiffer, Christian Bailly, Sylvie Michel, François Tillequin, Alain Pierr...

tartar but the latter in the first place is purely a deposit of lime salts from saliva. On pp. 56 and 57 he states that the carbohydrate eating Indians are freer from caries than meat-eating Europeans. This may be true, but it is not the meat portion of European diet that causes caries, but the various other patent and manufactured foods that they eat. On the other hand the tremendous prevalenc...