Polvos cerámicos de Sm2O3 dopados y mezclados con europio se obtuvieron a partir la formación cloruros samario través ruta sol-gel citrato. Este trabajo reporta influencia los iones en las propiedades estructurales luminiscentes cerámicas Sm2O3:Eu3+ (coordenadas CIE) variando el Eu3+ 10 50% mol. Las características químicas, morfológicas fueron establecidas por FTIR XRD, revelando presencia ban...

A single-crystal Au(111) electrode was used for the simultaneous determination of dopamine (DA) and ascorbic acid (AA) in a phosphate buffer solution at pH 6.9. The single-crystal Au(111) electrode displayed excellent electrocatalytic activity for DA and AA oxidation in comparison to a Au disk electrode. Although the anodic peaks of both reagents overlapped on the Au disk electrode, the anodic ...

BACKGROUND Urotensin II (U-II) is a novel vasoactive peptide that also has direct hypertrophic and profibrotic effects on the myocardium. Upregulation of U-II and its receptor has been observed within the heart of patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). Furthermore, plasma levels of U-II have been found to be elevated in some but not all studies in such patients. However, the functional cons...

the distribution of total plasma homocysteine concentrations in relation to the sex and age is described, in a population of shiraz, south west of iran and compared to those reported in other populations.  two hundred and one healthy males and 201 healthy females aged >15 y were randomly selected.  total plasma homocysteine concentrations were measured using high performance liquid chromatograp...

A new selective reagent was used for simultaneous determination of mercury and palladium in real samples with their different kinetic spectrophotometric properties. The method is based on the difference in the rate of the oxidation reaction of the recently synthesized reagent, nitro benzoyl diphenylmethylen phosphorane (N-BDMP), with Hg2+ and Pd2+. The kinetic profiles were monitored and record...

There is increasing evidence that the nervous system has influence on the immune response. The effect of vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) and of serotonin and its antagonists on the challenge phase of allergic contact dermatitis in humans were tested. The substances were injected intracutaneously shortly before and 6 h after application of patch tests with nickel sulphate in nickel-allergic ...

BACKGROUND Previous studies from our laboratory have shown that luminal perfusion with arginine vasopressin (AVP) stimulates distal tubule secretory potassium flux (JK) via V1 receptors (Am J Physiol 278:F809-F816, 2000). In the present work, we investigate the cell signaling mechanism of this process. METHODS In vivo stationary microperfusion was performed in rat cortical distal tubules and ...

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C(10)H(10)N(2)O, contains two crystallographically independent mol-ecules with similar geometries, which exist in the keto form. The C=O bond lengths are 1.2878 (12) Å in mol-ecule A and 1.2890 (12) Å in mol-ecule B, indicating that the compound undergoes enol-to-keto tautomerism during the crystallization process. In mol-ecule A, the pyrazole ring is ...

The mechanism by which racemic (R(+/-)) ketamine relaxes airway smooth muscle is unclear and there is no information on the differential effects of ketamine and its isomers. In this study, we have examined the spasmolytic effect of R(+/-) ketamine and its isomers S(+) and R(-) ketamine and the role of intracellular calcium and opioid receptors in R(+/-) ketamine-induced relaxation. The tension ...

Purpose: Human ciliary muscles were studied in terms of their response to carbachol in order to evaluate functional changes caused by ageing and disuse after lens extraction. Methods: Human ciliary muscles of 10 enucleated phakic eyebafls(5 cases under 70, 5 of 70 years or over) and an enucleated aphakic eyeball of an 63 year old individual obtained at autopsy were dissected in the meridional d...