metabolic alkalosis is characterized by high hco3- as it is seen in chronic respiratory acidosis, but ph differentiates the two disorders. there is no characteristic symptom or sign. orthostatic hypotension may be encountered. weakness and hyporeflexia occur if serum k+ is markerdly low. tetany and neuromuscular irritability occur rarely. we report the results of retrospective data analysis of ...

We investigate the final stage of cytokinesis in two types of amoeba, pointing out the existence of biphasic furrow contraction. The first phase is characterized by a constant contraction rate, is better studied, and seems universal to a large extent. The second phase is more diverse. In Dictyostelium discoideum the transition involves a change in the rate of contraction, and occurs when the wi...

Introduction: It was shown in a previous study, that MCPIP, a cilostamide derivative, increased atrial contraction force without changing contraction rate. To improve this property, two new derivatives of cilostamide were synthesized and their effects on PDE3 activity and isolated rat atria contraction were investigated. Methods: The inhibitory effect of each compound on PDE3 enzyme was dete...

We study the contraction properties (up to shift) for admissible RankineHugoniot discontinuities of n× n systems of conservation laws endowed with a convex entropy. We first generalize the criterion developed in [47], using the spatially inhomogeneous pseudo-distance introduced in [50]. Our generalized criterion guarantees the contraction property for extremal shocks of a large class of systems...

~ Integer dilation and contraction are functions used in conjunction with quadtree and octree mapping systems. Dilation is the process of inserting a number of zeros before each bit in a word and contraction is the process of removing those zeros. Present methods of dilation and contraction involve lookup tables which consume considerable amounts of memory for mappings of large or high resoluti...

An intelligent agent must be able to change its beliefs in a rational manner and with a plausible outcome. While the central belief change theories have well-developed formal characterisations, there has been limited work on applying these theories in a practical setting. In this paper we examine belief base contraction, specifically kernel contraction, in the framework of the description logic...

We investigated immunohistochemical differences in the distribution of TRPV1 channels and the contractile effects of capsaicin on smooth muscle in the mouse rectum and distal, transverse, and proximal colon. In the immunohistochemical study, TRPV1 immunoreactivity was found in the mucosa, submucosal, and muscle layers and myenteric plexus. Large numbers of TRPV1-immunoreactive axons were observ...