1. A preparation of the mantle of Octopus which is inverted over a solid support and which exposes the stellate ganglion and associated nerves is described. 2. Afferent activity can be recorded from stellar nerves following electrical stimulation of the pallial nerve. The latency and frequency of the phasic sensory response is correlated with the contraction of the mantle musculature. 3. It is ...

We show the well-posedness for a large class of degenerate parabolic equations with an additional singularity and mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary conditions on bounded Lipschitz domains. The proof is based L1-contraction result. In addition, we analyze systems where are coupled to semilinear reaction diffusion equations. This setting includes mathematical models biofilm growth which motivation...

Background—Cardiomyocytes use Ca not only in excitation-contraction coupling but also as a signaling molecule promoting, for example, cardiac hypertrophy. It is largely unclear how Ca triggers signaling in cardiomyocytes in the presence of the rapid and large Ca fluctuations that occur during excitation-contraction coupling. A potential route is store-operated Ca entry, a drug-inducible mechani...

In rings of rabbit facial vein (RFV), depletion of sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca2+ by caffeine abolished the subsequent isometric contraction to 25 mM K+ physiological salt solution (25K-PSS). However, the associated steady-state increase of smooth muscle intracellular free Ca2+concentration ([Ca2+]i), measured using fura PE3 and cuvette photometry, was not altered. Treatment with the specific...

An investigation has been made of the phosphate and lactic acid changes in the adductor muscle of the cheliped of the crayfish Cambarus clarkii upon stimulation of the isolated axons for the fast and slow contractions at determined frequencies. The data obtained point to the following conclusions: 1. When the mechanical effects of the two types of contraction are the same, the chemical changes ...

in this paper, we introduce intuitionistic fuzzy contraction mappingand prove a fixed point theorem in intuitionistic fuzzy metric spaces.

To study the mechanism of vasodilation induced by 6-(3-dimethylaminopropionyl) forskolin (NKH477), a water-soluble forskolin derivative, its effects on the acetylcholine (ACh)-induced contraction of muscle strips of porcine coronary artery were examined. [Ca2"]1, isometric force, and cellular concentrations of cAMP and inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate were measured. NKH477 (0.1-1.0 ,uM), isoprotere...

By means of time-resolved electron crystallography, we report direct observation of the structural dynamics of graphite, providing new insights into the processes involving coherent lattice motions and ultrafast graphene ablation. When graphite is excited by an ultrashort laser pulse, the excited carriers reach their equilibrium in less then one picosecond by transferring heat to a subset of st...

In this paper, at first, we introduce $alpha_{mu}$-admissible, $Z_mu$-contraction and  $N_{mu}$-contraction via simulation functions. We prove some new fixed point theorems for defined class of contractions   via $alpha$-admissible simulation mappings, as well. Our results  can be viewed as extension of the corresponding results in this area.  Moreover, some examples and an application to funct...

In this paper, we present a large deviation principle for partial sums processes indexed by the half line, which is particularly suited to queueing applications. The large deviation principle is established in a topology that is finer than the topology of uniform convergence on compacts and in which the queueing map is continuous. Consequently, a large deviation principle for steady-state queue...