We have studied the contribution of P-type voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels to both catacholamine (CA) and ATP secretion from bovine chromaffin cells induced by high K+ or nicotine using omega-agatoxin IVA, a selective blocker of P-type voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels. We found that high K+ (75 mM) induced the release of about 13% of norepinephrine, 5% epinephrine and 11% ATP, and that omega-aga...

The ${f}_{0}(1710)$ was previously proposed to be a dynamically generated state with interactions between vector mesons. We extend the study of by including its coupling channels pseudoscalar mesons within coupled-channel approach. involved are ${K}^{*}{\overline{K}}^{*},\ensuremath{\rho}\ensuremath{\rho},\ensuremath{\omega}\ensuremath{\omega},\ensuremath{\phi}\ensuremath{\phi},\ensuremath{\ome...

We investigate structures that can be represented by omega-automata, so called omega-automatic structures, and prove that relations defined over such structures in first-order logic expanded by the first-order quantifiers ‘there exist at most א0 many’, ’there exist finitely many’ and ’there exist k modulo m many’ are omega-regular. The proof identifies certain algebraic properties of omega-semi...

Understanding diurnal warming is important for satellite sea surface temperature (SST) validation and data merging. For coastal region, it also helps to predict coral reef bleaching. This study summarizes one of the first comprehensive coastal diurnal warming studies using an integrated approach including in-situ and satellite data analysis, as well as modeling. First, two in-situ datasets at t...

Sodium butyrate (SB) is used as an acidifier in animal feed. We hypothesized that supplemental SB impacts gastric morphology and function, depending on the period of SB provision. The effect of SB on the oxyntic and pyloric mucosa was studied in 4 groups of 8 pigs, each supplemented with SB either during the suckling period (d 4-28 of age), after weaning (d 29 to 39-40 of age) or both, or never...

Long-chain 3-hydroxydicarboxylic acids (3-OHDCAs) are thought to arise via beta-oxidation of the corresponding dicarboxylic acids (DCAs), although long-chain DCAs are neither readily transported into nor beta-oxidized in mitochondria. We thus examined whether omega-hydroxylation of 3-hydroxy fatty acids (3-OHFAs), formed via incomplete mitochondrial oxidation, is a more likely pathway for 3-OHD...

Hanan Selman Hessan and Ahmed Mohammed Abbas 563 Abstract Immune status was examined after tonsillectomy operations in 30 children with recurrent acute tonsillitis, their ages ranged between 3-10 years, were clinically diagnosed by ENT surgeon at AlHilla General Teaching Hospital and 10 apparently healthy children were included as a control in the study which lasted from February to May 2011 .I...