Azomethane (AM) gas was identified as a major metabolite of 1,2-dimethylhydrazine (1,2-DMH) in the expired air of F344 rats. The compound was characterized by highpressure liquid chromatography, gas chromatography, and mass spectrometry, in comparison to a synthetic standard. At a dose of 21 mg 1,2-DMH/kg sc, approximately 14 and 11% of the dose were exhaled as AM and C02, respectively, in 24 h...

Studies on the influence of light on respiration have yielded different results with different organisms. In some instances results were interpreted as evidence for light stimulation of respiration (3, 4, 5, 6), in other cases for photoinhibition (8, 13), and in still other examples for a negligible effect (1). With a given species simultaneous measurements of respiratory and photosynthetic 02 ...

using C02 laser difference generation in metal-insulator-metal diodes either from the difference between a fixed frequency C02 laser and a tunable waveguide laser, or from the difference between two fixed frequency C02 lasers plus microwave sidebands. is being used to make highly accurate FIR frequency measurements of stable species to serve as frequency and wavelength calibration standards; to...

arise or react. For example, when urea is acted upon by urease in a buffer solution the end products are NH+, C02, and HCO_ and the question presents itself whether C02, or HCO, or H2002 is the primary form of carbonic acid. Similar problems arise in studying the mechanism of decarboxylation of aor ,B-ketonic acids and of the bacterial fission of formic acid into H2 and C02. As Roughton and his...

SuwA, K. and MATSUSHITA, F. Open Loop-Gain of the CO2 Ventilatory Control System. Tohoku J. exp. Med., 1985, 147 (1), 97-106 We devised a method of measuring the open-loop gain for C02-ventilatory feedback control system. The procedure is to gradually increase then decrease the PIco2 while measuring Picoz and PAco2. We theorized that the gain is aPIco2/aPAco2-1. We measured this gain in 11 youn...

The combustion of coal in power plants generates solids (e-g., fly ash, bottom ash) and flue gas (e.g., SOX, C02). New Clean Air Act mandated reduction of SOX emissions from coal burning power plants. As a result, a variety of Clean Coal Technologies (CCT) are implemented to comply with these amendments. However, most of the CCT processes transfer environmentally sensitive elements (e.g., As, C...

Stadtman and Barker (1949) using C14 labeled C02 demonstrated that the methane produced in this fermentation is formed entirely by reduction of C02. Experiments with growing cultures led to the conclusion (Barker, 1939, 1956) that the oxidation of alcohol is dependent upon the supply of carbon dioxide, and that when the carbon dioxide is consumed, no further oxidation of alcohol occurs. This pa...

In order to better understand the budget of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere it is necessary to develop a global high precision understanding of the carbon dioxide column. In order to uncover the 'missing s ink that is responsible for the large discrepancies in the budget as we presently understand it calculation has indicated that measurement accuracy on the order of 1 ppm is necessary...

Photon flux density (PFD) and water availability, the daily and seasonal factors that vary most in tropical environments, were examined to see how they influenced expression of crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) in 3year-old Clusia shrubs native to Panama. Instead of the commonly used single-leaf approach, diel C02 exchange was measured for whole individual canopies of plants in large soil cont...

Effects of acute systemic hypoxia on the cardiovascular system (CYS) and respiration of spontaneously breathing cats were studied in two conditions. 1): Hypoxic air (6-8% 02 in N2) was given to the animal to induce systemic hypoxia for 20 minutes. Hyperventilation at this condition lowered arterial C02 tension (PaC02 hypocapnia). 2): In the second run, induction of hypocapnia was prevented ...