Quinine increases the conductance of hemi-gap junctions in horizontal cells. We investigated the mechanisms of alkalinization and the hypothesis that quinine-induced alkalinization produced these conductance increases. We found that quinine-induced alkalinizations were not blocked by cobalt, amiloride, or DIDS. Therefore, this suggests that the alkalinization is not likely due to net proton flu...

Herlyn-Werner-Wunderlich (HWW) syndrome is an uncommon combined müllerian duct anomalies (MDAs) and mesonephric duct malformation of female urogenital tract characterized by uterus didelphys and obstructed hemi-vagina and ipsilateral renal agenesis (OHVIRA) syndrome. We present a rare and unusual case of this syndrome in a 19 year-old female who suffered from hypomenorrhoea and abdominal pain. ...

We examined ocular fixations during line bisection in five patients with left hemianopia, two patients with right hemianopia, nine patients with left hemi-neglect and nine normal control subjects. Compared with measures in control subjects, the median fixation, and left- and rightmost fixations were shifted contralaterally in patients with hemianopia alone and ipsilaterally in patients with hem...

We investigate simulation hemi-metrics between certain forms of turnbased 2 1 2 -player games played on infinite topological spaces. They have the desirable property of bounding the difference in payoffs obtained by starting from one state or another. All constructions are described as the special case of a unique one, which we call the Hutchinson hemi-metric on various spaces of continuous pre...

Chemical analysis of fermentation products from two Australian Streptomyces isolates yielded all four known and twelve new examples of the rare reveromycin class of polyketide spiroketals, including hemi-succinates, hemi-fumarates and hemi-furanoates. Reveromycins were identified with the aid of HPLC-DAD-MS and HPLC-DAD-SPE-NMR methodology, and structures were assigned by detailed spectroscopic...

INTRODUCTION There is a lack of data in the literature for determining the influences of the extensor portion of the gluteus maximus muscle on pelvic tilting and, thus, on lumbar stability. OBJECTIVES To assess the influences of the extensor portion of the gluteus maximus muscle on pelvic tilt. METHODS Ten healthy young subjects were recruited, with a body mass index (BMI) below 24.9 kg/m(2...

N-glycosylation of immunoglobulin G (IgG) at asparigine residue 297 plays a critical role in antibody stability and immune cell-mediated Fc effector function. Current understanding pertaining to Fc glycosylation is based on studies with IgGs that are either fully glycosylated [both heavy chain (HC) glycosylated] or aglycosylated (neither HC glycosylated). No study has been reported on the prope...

When marking the subjective midpoint of a horizontal line, patients with left unilateral neglect typically deviate rightward. Different accounts of this pattern of performance refer either to a biased competition between the two hemi-segments of the line, with the right part being subjectively perceived as longer than the left part, or to a distortion of a cognitive representation of space, wit...

The transient IR absorption spectrum for UV-excited i-motif DNA is reported for the first time and found to possess complex dynamics pointing to multiple decay processes, including possible charge transfer between packed hemi-protonated C bases.