To determine a possible role of sodium-potassium adenosine triphosphatase (Na+, K+-ATPase) in the regulation of membrane functions in hypertension, we investigated the effects of ouabain on the membrane fluidity of erythrocytes in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) by means of an electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and spin labeling method. Erythrocytes obtained from SHR were examined comp...

Abstract The main objective of this study was to examine the relationship between Value at Risk (VaR) and expected returns from 2002 to 2013 in Tehran’s Stock Exchange. In this study parametric value at risk, which considers the distribution of returns as normal and the historical value at risk as abnormal, was used to test the presence of the volatility anomaly in the companies listed i...

Block ciphers are widely used in modern cryptography. Substitution boxes (S–boxes) are main elements of these types of ciphers. In this paper we propose a new method to create S–boxes, which is based on application of Cellular Automata (CA). We present the results of testing CA-based S–boxes. These results confirm that CA are able to realize efficiently the Boolean function corresponding to cla...

Bromochloromethane (BCM) is a volatile compound and a by-product of disinfection of water by chlorination. Physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) models are used in risk assessment applications. An updated PBPK model for BCM is generated and applied to hypotheses testing calibrated using vapor uptake data. The two different metabolic hypotheses examined are (1) a two-pathway model using b...

cellular and molecular anesthesia: from bench to bedside in the current practice of anesthesia, each day, anesthesiologists deal with a great work: they use the cellular mechanisms of drug molecules to induce their desired effects for induction and maintenance of anesthesia to achieve appropriate tolerance of surgery and its pain, modulation of stress response, sedation needed for performing a ...

Transition from proliferation to quiescence brings about extensive changes in cellular behavior and structure. However, the genes that are crucial for establishing and/or maintaining quiescence are largely unknown. The fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe is an excellent model in which to study this problem, because it becomes quiescent under nitrogen starvation. Here, we characterize 610 te...

Topological André-Quillen homology for commutative S-algebras was introduced by Basterra following work of Kriz, and has been intensively studied by several authors. In this paper we discuss it as a homology theory on CW commutative S-algebras and apply it to obtain results on minimal atomic p-local S-algebras which generalise those of Baker and May for p-local spectra and simply connected spac...