The electric properties of Paramecium have gained interest because of the emerging role of membrane potential and conductance in the control of ciliary activity (Kinosita, 1954; Okajima, 1953; Naitoh, 1958; Kinosita, Murakami & Yasuda, 1965; Naitoh & Eckert, 1969a, b; Eckert & Naitoh, 1970). Recent evidence indicates that ciliary responses are coupled to membrane potential by membrane-regulated...

Studies of contractile responses and their control by electroionic mechanisms have been performed primarily on vertebrate muscle (Huxley & Taylor, 1958; Hodgkin & Horowicz, 1960; Sandow, Taylor & Preiser, 1965); however, mechanical responses correlated with bioelectric potentials also occur in a number of other cells in both the animal and plant (Sibaoka, 1966) kingdoms. The Protozoa, especiall...

The steady boundary layer flow of a viscous and incompressible fluid over a moving vertical flat plate in an external moving fluid with viscous dissipation is theoretically investigated. Using appropriate similarity variables, the governing system of partial differential equations is transformed into a system of ordinary (similarity) differential equations, which is then solved numerically usin...

The entropy generation due to steady laminar forced convection fluid flow through parallel plates microchannel is investigated numerically. The effect of Knudsen, Reynolds, Prandtl, Eckert numbers and the nondimensional temperature difference on entropy generation within the microchannel is discussed. The fraction of the entropy generation due to heat transfer to the total entropy generation wi...

The effects of viscous dissipation and thermal dispersion due to the presence of ultraŽ ne particles in the lubricating  uid are studied on  ow and heat transfer inside a nonisothermal and incompressible bearing during relief and squeezing stages. The governing equations are nondimensionlized and reduced to simpler forms based on an order-ofmagnitude analysis. Analytical solution for the ener...

· Du T, Grimm A, Jiang W, Desjardins P, Butterworth RF (2010) Pathogenesis of brainedema in acute liver failure: key role of the astrocytic glutamine transporter SNAT-3.Hepathology, Volume 52, Number 4 (suppl), American Association for the Study ofLiver Disease (AASLD), Boston, Massachusetts, October 29 November 2, 2010. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS 196· Chastre A, Grimm A, Bemeur B, De...

This manuscript consists of the properties of natural convective flow of a viscous incompressible electrically conducting fluid past a vertical porous plate bounded by a porous medium in the presence of thermal radiation and variable permeability. A magnetic field of uniform strength is applied perpendicular to the plate and the presence of heat source is also considered. The novelty of the stu...

In this paper, we study the effects of Hall and ion-slip currents on the steady magneto-micropolar of a viscous incompressible and electrically conducting fluid over a horizontal plate by taking in to account the viscous dissipation effects. By means of similarity solutions, deviation of fundamental equations on the assumption of small magnetic Reynolds number are solved numerically by using qu...

The present paper deals with the effects of Ohmic dissipative Casson fluid flow over a stretching sheet in the presence of aligned magnetic field. The present phenomenon also includes the interaction of thermal radiation and velocity slip. The governing boundary layer equations are transformed into a set of ordinary differential equations using the similarity transformations. The dimensionless ...