Removal of the corpuscles of Stannius (STX) in the freshwater European eel causes a marked increase in the concentrations of blood ionic calcium and protein-bound calcium. The hypercalcaemia peaks 20 days after STX and lasts at least another 20 days. In stanniectomized eels hypocalcin decreased both blood ionic and total calcium concentrations. The reduction of plasma total calcium concentratio...

introduction: boron (b) is an essential plant micronutrient whose soil availability is influenced by many soil factors.understanding the processes controling activity of boron (b) in the soil solution is important for soil fertility management. the reaction of adsorption and desorption of boron in soil determines the amount of boron that is available to plants. adsorption–desorption processes p...

the transformation of biochemical information into a physical or chemical signal is the basic idea behind a biosensor. the efficient detection of charged biomolecules by biosensor with appropriate device has caught tremendous research interest in the present decade. the present work is related to the simulation study of the performance of a functionalized surface of a biologically sensitive fie...

The development of contracture related to changes of ionic environment (ionic contracture coupling) has been studied in the slowly responding fibers of frog skeletal muscle. When deprived of external ions for 30 minutes by use of solutions of sucrose, mannitol, or glucose, the slow skeletal muscle fibers, but not the fast, develop pronounced and easily reversible contractures. Partial replaceme...

The anomeric methyl D-glucopyranosides were treated with NJV-diethylaziridinium chloride in various molarities of aqueous sodium hydroxide at variable ionic strength and constant ionic strength. It was found that the extent of reaction of the hydroxyl groups at C-2, C-3, and C-4 decreased with increasing concentration of base. Reaction at the C-6 hydroxyl group remained essentially constant wit...

Cells are demarcated by the cell membrane. The cell membrane is a lipid bilayer in which various protein molecules are embedded (see Figure 1). In all animal cells, there is a large difference in ionic concentration between inside and outside the cell (Table 1). Na concentration is higher outside the cell and the K concentration is higher inside the cell. Intracellular Ca concentration is kept ...

We have dispersed graphene in water, stabilized by a range of 12 ionic and non-ionic surfactants. In all cases, the degree of exfoliation, as characterized by flake length and thickness, was similar. The dispersed flakes were typically 750 nm long and, on average, four layers thick. However, the dispersed concentration varied from solvent to solvent. For the ionic surfactants, the concentration...

A nonionic surfactant, n-dodecyl glyceryl itaconate (DGI), self-assembles into bilayer membranes in water having a spacing distance of sub-micrometer in the presence of small amounts of ionic surfactants, and shows beautiful iridescent color. Ionic surfactants have strong effects on this iridescent system. We have interestingly found that the iridescent color changes with time after mixing DGI ...

In this study, we combined Ionic Liquid-based Dispersive Liquid Liquid Micro Extraction (IL-DLLME) with FAAS for determining the palladium in different real samples at the trace level. 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate [Hmim][PF6] ionic liquid and 1-(2-pyridylazo) 2-naphthol (PAN), were chosen as the extraction solvent and the chelating agent, respectively. The hydr...