BACKGROUND Wet swallows cause a greater esophageal contraction amplitude and duration than dry swallows. In Chagas' disease there is a reduction in amplitude of esophageal contraction but we do not know if the difference between wet and dry swallows is seen in the disease. AIM To compare the esophageal contractions after wet and dry swallows in patients with Chagas' disease. METHODS We meas...

Skins and hides are perishable resources that can be damaged by parasitic diseases and human error, which result in downgrading or rejection. This study was conducted to identify defect types and to determine their prevalence in pickled sheep and wet blue goat skins and wet blue hides. Each selected skin or hide was examined for defects in natural light and the defects were graded according to ...

In this chapter, we describe a few popular experimental methodologies that can be used to independently validate the results of a microarray experiment. In contrast to many of the other chapters in this book, the techniques described here are decidedly non-mathematical or statistical in nature. Instead, most of them utilize standard 'wet-bench' molecular biology protocols that have proven thems...

A life cycle assessment of the impact of distillers grains plus solubles (DGS) on mitigation of energy and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions comparing corn ethanol to gasoline demonstrates the importance of feeding wet DGS (WDGS) to feedlot cattle to optimize the environmental benefit of ethanol production relative to gasoline. Ethanol produced in Nebraska has a superior environmental impact compa...

A hollow cylinder apparatus was used to study some engineering properties of hollow cylindrical sand specimens prepared using the wet-pluviation technique. The refined specimen preparation method displayed good repeatability. Wet pluviation produced inherently cross-anisotropic specimens, with the level of initial anisotropy reducing with decreasing initial void ratio. The variation in the init...

The objectives of this chapter are twofold: firstly to introduce DNA computation, and secondly to demonstrate how DNA computing can be applied to solve large, complex combinatorial problems, such as the optimal scheduling of a group of elevators servicing a number of floors in a multi-storey building. Recently, molecular (or wet) computing has been widely researched not only within the context ...

-1 . Glycogen contents of skeletal muscle, heart and brain cortex of fetal, month-old and adult Weddell seal, Leptonychotes weddelli, were determined. 2. Fetal, month-old and adult male levels ranged from 4"5 to 12-7, 9"1-13 and 1"5-1"8 mg glucose/g wet weight for muscle, heart and brain respectively. Pregnant female skeletal muscle levels were similar but heart and brain levels were 21.8 and 2...

Wet, dry, and ash weights and calcium content were determined on demarrowed tibiae of normal and 'hypophysectomized' chick embryos from days 105 to 19-5 of incubation. All parameters noted above increased progressively through developmental time in normal embryos. VHypophysectomy' significantly affected bone wet and dry weights, and total mineral and calcium content. The data indicate that mine...

Green, H., J. MacDougall, M. Tarnopolsky, and N. L. Melissa. Downregulation of Na1-K1-ATPase pumps in skeletal muscle with training in normobaric hypoxia. J. Appl. Physiol. 86(5): 1745–1748, 1999.—To investigate the effects of training in normoxia vs. training in normobaric hypoxia (fraction of inspired O2 5 20.9 vs. 13.5%, respectively) on the regulation of Na1-K1-ATPase pump concentration in ...