The central pathway of the micturition reflex in the rat was investigated functionally by acute blockade of synaptic neurotransmission using microinjection of cobalt chloride into the periaqueductal gray or pontine tegmental region. In 27 urethan-anesthetized (1.2 g/kg ip) rats, the bladder pressure response to continuous infusion of the bladder with saline (0.1-0.25 ml/min) was assessed. Elect...

A plasmid for cytoglobin expression, pAcGFP1-C1-cytoglobin, was transfected into SH-SY5Y cells. Cobalt chloride was used to establish a model of hypoxia. Western blotting indicated that cytoglobin was overexpressed and there was low expression of hypoxia-inducible factor-1α in SH-SY5Y cells after transfection. Following cobalt chloride-induced hypoxia, cytoglobin and hypoxia-inducible factor-1α...

Humidity indicators based on composite polyamide 66/cobalt chloride (PA66/CoCl2) nanofibrous membranes (NFMs) were successfully fabricated by electrospinning. A series of NFMs with various weight percentage of CoCl2 to PA66 were prepared, and their humidity sensitivity based on color changing and quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) were studied. Due to the color change property of cobalt chloride...

Metal matrix composite coatings reinforced with nano-particles have attracted scientific and technological interest due to the enhanced properties exhibited by these coatings. Cobalt/hexagonal boron nitride nano-composite coatings were prepared by means of the pulse current electroplating from a chloride electrolyte on copper substrates and a comparison was made with the pure cobalt in terms of...

Sphere-like shaped cobalt oxide nanoparticles (Co3O4) were synthesized by a simple wet chemical method using cobalt chloride as precursor and cetyl trimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) as surfactant. Their structural and surface morphologial properties were characterized by high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) and X-ray diffra...

Fourteen cations were tested at a 1% concentration (wt:wt), as chlorides, for their effects on the biological activity of the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar (L.), nuclear polyhedrosis virus (LdMNPV). Cupric chloride was toxic to gypsy moth larvae. Ferrous and ferric chloride were inhibitory to larval growth and development as well as to virus activity. Strontium chloride was inhibitory to virus a...

Hypoxia in the tubulointerstitium has been thought to play pivotal roles in the pathophysiology of acute renal failure and the progression of chronic kidney disease. Pre-induction of hypoxia-inducible and renoprotective gene expression may protect subsequent ischemic injury. This study evaluated the efficacy of cobalt, which inhibits HIF-1 degradation and increases the expression level of hypox...

The title compound, [Co(C(10)H(21)N(2))Cl(3)], was obtained as the by-product of the attempted synthesis of a cobalt sulfate framework using 1,4-diaza-bicyclo-[2.2.2]octane as an organic template. The asymmetric unit comprises two distinct mol-ecules, and in each, the cobalt(II) ions are tetra-hedrally coordinated by three chloride anions and one 1-butyl-diaza-bicyclo-[2.2.2]octan-1-ium cation....

A self-assembly reaction between the ditopic ligand 4,5-bis(tetrazol-5-yl)imidazole (H3IBT) and cobalt(II) chloride in basic aqueous medium afforded the mixed-valence molecular species ðNBu4Þ141⁄2Co III 6Co II 2ðIBTÞ12 22H2O (1). X-ray analysis of 1 revealed a cubic arrangement of six trivalent and two divalent cobalt ions, with the latter situated on opposing vertices along the cube diagonal. ...

B. P. Baranwal*, S. S. Das, Poonam Singh Chemistry Department, University of Gorakhpur, Gorakhpur 273009 India Z. Naturforsch. 52b, 1039-1042 (1997); received July 7, 1997 Cobalt(II) Derivatives, Cyclic Phosphazenes, IR Spectra Chlorine atoms of hexachlorocyclotriphosphazene were substituted with -NH.C2H5, -NH.CH 2C6H5 and -O C 2Hs to yield organotriphosphazene ligands. Anhydrous cobalt(II) chl...