Genkwa Flos (GF), the dried flower bud from Daphne genkwa Sieb. et Zucc. (Thymelaeaceae), is a well-known and widely used traditional Chinese medicine. However, we know little about the in vivo mechanism of GF toxicity. Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has been considered as a useful toxicity assay system by offering a system best suited for asking the in vivo questions. In the present study, we...

To develop a method for organic gluten-free (GF) sourdough bread production, a long-term and original wheat sourdough was refreshed with GF flours. The dynamics of the sourdough microbiota during five months of back-slopping were analyzed by classical enumeration and molecular methods, including PCR-temporal temperature gel electrophoresis (PCR-TTGE), multiplex PCR, and pulsed field gel electro...

AIM To determine the optimum resting tension (ORT) for in vitro human pulmonary artery (PA) ring preparations. METHODS Pulmonary arteries were dissected from disease free sections of the resected lung in the operating theatre and tissue samples were directly sent to the laboratory in Krebs-Henseleit solution (Krebs). The pulmonary arteries were then cut into 2 mm long rings. PA rings were mou...

We use Eisenstein’s irreducibility criterion to prove that there exists an absolutely irreducible polynomial P(X,Y) ∈ GF(q)[X,Y] with coefficients in the finite field GF(q) with q elements, with prescribed level curves Xc := {(x,y)∈GF(q)2 | P(x,y)= c}. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. 11T06.

For matroids representable over both GF 3] and GF 5], we provide a recipe for constructing an orientation.

Exploration of force coordination has been one of the most often used approaches in studies of hand function. When holding and manipulating a hand-held object healthy individuals are typically able to highly coordinate the perpendicular (grip force; GF) with the tangential component of the contact force (load force; LF). The purpose of this review is to present the findings of our recent studie...

Multi-walled carbon nanotube buckypaper (BP) reinforced glass fiber–epoxy (GF/EP) composites were selected to fabricate electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding and microwave absorbing materials. Six different composite configurations with 3.0 mm thick have been conceived tested over the X-band (8.2–12.4 GHz). Flexible low-density (0.29 g/cm3) BP provided a high specific EMI SE of 76 dB con...

Glomerular filtration (GF) during progressive reduction of renal perfusion pressure by aortic clamping was studied in hydropenic rats and in rats infused with isotonic saline, hypertonic saline, or mannitol. As judged by visual observation of Lissamine green movements in superficial nephrons. GF was absent in hydropenic or saline-loaded rats at 40 mm Hg aortic pressure, but continued in some ne...