Abstract Proglacial lakes, whose numbers have been growing around the world, may drive accelerated glacier retreat and provide valuable records of past climatic changes. Despite their importance, few studies investigated sedimentary properties processes acting within large proglacial lakes. Lago Argentino (LArg) is a 1,500 km 2 ice‐contact lake on eastern flank Southern Patagonian Icefield. Her...

Let /(f) be locally integrable on [0, °°) and let L{f}(s) denote the Laplace transform of /(f). In this note, we prove that if/(f) ~ f Sh=q an(log f)~ as f -> °°, where 0 < Re ß < 1, then /.{/}($) ~ s^1 2^=0 cn('°8 '/*)"" as s ->• 0 in larg si « 7r/2 A, the cn being constants.

We examined the role of endogenous tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) on L-arginine (L-Arg)-induced increase in cytosolic calcium concentration ([Ca]i) in the β-cell line, HIT-T15 cells. HIT-T15 cells contain a large amount of BH4 with a high expression of GTP cyclohydrolase I (GTPCH) mRNA compared with mouse brain microvascular endothelial cells and bovine aortic endothelial cells. 2,4-Diamino-6-hydrox...

Neutrophil chemotaxis depends on actin dynamics, but the roles for specific cytoskeleton regulators in this response remain unclear. By analysis of mammalian diaphanous-related formin 1 (mDia1)-deficient mice, we have identified an essential role for this actin nucleator in neutrophil chemotaxis. Lack of mDia1 was associated with defects in chemoattractant-induced neutrophil actin polymerizatio...

Objectives To investigate risk factors of postoperative hemorrhage (PH) following laparoscopy-assisted radical gastrectomy (LARG) with D2 lymphadenectomy for primary gastric cancer (PGC) and to use those risk factors to develop a scoring system for risk assessment. Materials and Methods A total of 1789 PGC patients were enrolled in our study. We analyzed the risk factors of PH and constructed...