Inbred Dahl/Rapp salt-sensitive and salt-resistant rats differ in their blood pressure response to dietary salt. We studied sodium-hydrogen (Na-H) exchanger kinetics in renal brush border membrane vesicles prepared from both strains on either a 1% or 8% NaCl diet. Kinetics measurements were made with the acridine orange fluorescence quenching technique in vesicles prepared at pH 6.0. The initia...

BACKGROUND Gastric leak (GL) represents one of the main early-onset postoperative complication of sleeve gastrectomy (SG). Most studies of GL featured short series and no data on the time to reoperation for persistent GL. OBJECTIVES Characterize the time between discovery of persistent post-SG GL and the implementation of reoperation. SETTING University hospital, France, public practice. ...

We refute a recent claim in the literature of a " new " quantum deformation of GL(2). Until the year 2000 it was not clear how many distinct quantum group deformations are admissible for the group GL(2) and the supergroup GL(1|1). For the group GL(2) there were the well-known standard GL pq (2) [1] and nonstandard (Jordanian) GL gh (2) [2] two-parameter deformations. (The dual quantum algebras ...

Highly concentrated NaCl brines are important geothermal fluids; chloride complexation of metals in such brines increases the solubility of minerals and plays a fundamental role in the genesis of hydrothermal ore deposits. There is experimental evidence that the molecular nature of the NaCl–water system changes over the pressure–temperature range of the Earth’s crust. A transition of concentrat...

in this study, the effects of various concentrations of nacl and kcl and partial replacement of nacl withkcl on the growth characteristics of l. monocytogenes were evaluated. it was found that l. monocytogenescan grow in the presence of 1-9% nacl and 1-11% kcl. the higher the concentration of salt used, the longerthe lag phase induced. in addition, it was observed that l. monocytogenes tolerate...

We introduce and demonstrate a new mapping for generating music from the 2D Cellular Automata “Game of Life” (GL). The core of this mapping is based on a polar co-ordinate system with origin at the GL grid centre. Such a polar approach is designed to better capture the radial symmetry inherent in the rule set for GL. The radial symmetry of the GL rule set is key to the visual experience of obse...

In this paper, we will give the subconvexity bounds for self-dual GL(3) L-functions in the t aspect as well as subconvexity bounds for self-dual GL(3) × GL(2) L-functions in the GL(2) spectral aspect.

On the eigenvalue problem for arbitrary odd elements of the Lie superalgebra gl(1|n) and applications Abstract In a Wigner quantum mechanical model, with a solution in terms of the Lie superalgebra gl(1|n), one is faced with determining the eigenvalues and eigenvectors for an arbitrary self-adjoint odd element of gl(1|n) in any unitary irreducible representation W. We show that the eigenvalue p...

Sodium ions absorbed from the intestine are postulated to act on the liver to reflexly suppress renal sympathetic nerve activity (RSNA), resulting in inhibition of sodium reabsorption in the kidney. To test the hypothesis that the renal sympathoinhibitory response to portal venous NaCl infusion involves an action of arginine vasopressin (AVP) at the area postrema, we examined the effects of por...

Glycyrrhizin (GL) has been used in Japan to treat patients with chronic viral hepatitis, as an anti-inflammatory drug to reduce serum alanine aminotransferase levels. GL is also known to exhibit various biological activities, including anti-viral effects, but the anti-hepatitis C virus (HCV) effect of GL remains to be clarified. In this study, we demonstrated that GL treatment of HCV-infected H...