Gd(3+) blocks stretch-activated channels and suppresses stretch-induced arrhythmias. We used whole cell voltage clamp to examine whether effects on Na(+) channels might contribute to the antiarrhythmic efficacy of Gd(3+). Gd(3+) inhibited Na(+) current (I(Na)) in rabbit ventricle (IC(50) = 48 microM at -35 mV, holding potential -120 mV), and block increased at more negative test potentials. Gd(...

Negative self-views have proved to be a consistent marker of vulnerability for depression. However, recent research has shown that a particular kind of cognitive conflict, implicative dilemma, is highly prevalent in depression. In this study, the relevance of these conflicts is assessed as compared to the cognitive model of depression of a negative view of the self. In so doing, 161 patients wi...

We introduce the notion of ideals in implicative semigroups, and then state the characterizations of the ideals. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. 20M12, 06F05, 06A06, 06A12.

OBJECTIVE Biologically significant amounts of two procoagulant molecules, phosphatidylserine (PS) and tissue factor (TF), are transported by monocyte/macrophage-derived microvesicles (MVs). Because cellular cholesterol accumulation is an important feature of atherosclerotic vascular disease, we now examined effects of cholesterol enrichment on MV release from human monocytes and macrophages. ...

Recently W. McCune and D. A. Sands have considered, in a note Amer Math. Monthly 103 (1996), 888{892], implicative axioms in groups of the form if u = v, then w = t, where u, v, w, t are group words in some variables. Their interest is in such identical implications that deene the variety of groups, or the variety of abelian groups. What I want to present is, slightly more generally, identical ...