isovanillin and isoacetovanillon are two components found in p. spinosa decne.exboiss extract with no previously reported effect on ileum contractions. spasmolytic effect of isovanillin and isoacetovanillon were examined on response to electrical field stimulation (efs), acetylcholine (ach) and 5-ht in strips of rat ileum. longitudinal ileum strips were set up in an organ bath containing oxygen...

Rats were rendered hypertensive by two different technics. Isometric tensions developed by strips of aorta from these rats, when exposed to various concentrations of epinephrine and levarterenol, were compared with those developed by aortic strips from normotensive controls. Almost all of the aortic strips from the DCA-salt hypertensive rats responded with smaller contraction tensions to both p...

Ag permittivity (dielectric function) in coupled strips is different from bulk and has been studied for strips of various dimensions and surface roughness. Arrays of such paired strips exhibit the properties of metamagnetics. The surface roughness does not affect the Ag dielectric function, although it does increase the loss at the plasmon resonances of the coupled strips. The size effect in th...

AIMS (1) To model the process of use and usability of pH strips (2) to identify, through simulation studies, the likelihood of misreading pH strips, and to assess professional's acceptance, trust and perceived usability of pH strips. METHODS This study was undertaken in four phases and used a mixed method approach (an audit, a semi-structured interview, a survey and simulation study). The thr...

AIM To characterize the numbers of reagent strips dispensed for self-monitoring of blood glucose to patients with Type 2 diabetes in Tayside, Scotland, in 1993, 1999 and 2009. METHODS A diabetes clinical information system in Tayside, record-linked to electronic dispensed prescribing records, was used to collate all dispensed prescribing records for three cross-sectional samples of patients w...

Two new reagent strips have recently been introduced for blood glucose measurement by direct visual reading. Results obtained with these strips (Glucostix and Hypogard GA) were compared with those obtained using other commonly employed strips (BM-Test-Glycemie 1-44 and Visidex II) and a standard laboratory method. Blood glucose estimations were performed on samples of venous blood drawn from 12...

A thorough examination of the quasi-static penetration of a floating elastic-brittle plate via a fracture mechanics approach has been presented by Bažant and Kim. Bažant and Kim reach the conclusion that there is a size effect (in terms of the plate thickness, h). A few of the assumptions made by these authors will be examined in this discussion. The formulation presented by Bažant and Kim assu...

Bandwidth labelling is a well known research area in graph theory. We provide a new proof that the bandwidth of Mobius ladder is 4, if it is not a $K_{4}$, and investigate the bandwidth of a wider class of Mobius graphs of even strips.