Natural source derived carbon materials make them ideally suited alternative to costly Pt counter electrode for their good catalytic activity, resistance iodine corrosion, and high stability of the device. Apart from extensively acclaimed photoanode TiO2, BaSnO3 (BSO) has been projected as an efficient it. In this study, remarkable efforts have endeavoured establish BSO-carbon-based dye-sensiti...

1. Introduction. This paper will show that after localization at any given primep, the infinite loop space structure on the space BSO is essentially unique. If the word 'localization' is replaced by 'completion', the result continues to hold; and both results continue to hold if the space BSO is replaced by the space B8U. In order to state this result formally, it is natural to suppose given a ...

PURPOSE Although combining aromatase inhibitors (AI) with gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists (GnRHa) is becoming more common, it is still not clear if GnRHa is as effective as bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (BSO). MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively analyzed data of 66 premenopausal patients with hormone receptor- positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative recurren...

Brain storm optimization (BSO) and particle swarm (PSO) are two popular nature-inspired algorithms, with BSO being the more recently developed one. It has been observed that an advantage over PSO regarding exploration a random initialization, while is capable at local exploitation if given predetermined initialization. The algorithms have also examined as hybrid. In this work, algorithm was hyb...

BACKGROUND Oxidative stress, associated with increased plasma isoprostane (ISO) and reductions in plasma glutathione (GSH), has been shown to cause severe hypertension in normal rats. Palm oil (PO), with an unsaturated-to-saturated fatty acid ratio close to one and rich in antioxidant vitamins, has been investigated for its beneficial effects on arterial thrombosis and atherosclerosis. In this ...

S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAMe) is protective against a variety of hepatotoxins, including ethanol. The ability of SAMe to protect against cytochrome P-450 2E1 (CYP2E1)-dependent toxicity was studied in hepatocytes from pyrazole-treated rats and HepG2 E47 cells, both of which actively express CYP2E1. Toxicity was initiated by the addition of arachidonic acid (AA) or by depletion of glutathione a...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of glutathione (GSH) depletion and cellular oxidation on rat diaphragm contractility and sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPase (SERCA) function in vitro under basal conditions and following fatiguing stimulation. Buthionine sulfoximine (BSO) treatment (n = 10) for 10 days (20 mM in drinking water) reduced (P < 0.05) diaphragm GSH content...

Overactivation of the mineralocorticoid receptor signaling is implicated in cardiovascular disease, including hypertensive heart disease. Oxidative stress is suggested to augment mineralocorticoid receptor signal transduction, but the precise mechanisms remain unclear. Mineralocorticoid receptor activity is regulated by multiple factors, in addition to plasma ligand levels. We previously identi...

Tupling AR, Vigna C, Ford RJ, Tsuchiya SC, Graham DA, Denniss SG, Rush JW. Effects of buthionine sulfoximine treatment on diaphragm contractility and SR Ca pump function in rats. J Appl Physiol 103: 1921–1928, 2007. First published August 23, 2007; doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.00529.2007.—The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of glutathione (GSH) depletion and cellular oxidation on r...