Polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) traverse an endothelial cell (EC) barrier by crawling between neighboring EC. Whether EC regulate the integrity of their intercellular adhesive and junctional contacts in response to chemotaxing PMN is unresolved. EC respond to the binding of soluble mediators such as histamine by increasing their cytosolic free calcium concentration ([Ca++]i) (Rotrosen, D., a...

The oxidation induced reactions of the common lithium battery electrolyte solvent ethylene carbonate (EC) have been investigated for EC(2) using density functional theory and for selected reaction paths using Møller-Plesset perturbation theory (MP4). The importance of explicitly treating at least one solvent molecule interacting with EC during oxidation (removal of an electron) on the EC oxidat...

Functional endothelial-like cells (EC) have been successfully derived from different cell sources and potentially used for treatment of cardiovascular diseases; however, their relative therapeutic efficacy remains unclear. We differentiated functional EC from human bone marrow mononuclear cells (BM-EC), human embryonic stem cells (hESC-EC) and human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC-EC), an...

La exposición de cerdos a estrés por calor (EC), en comparación con termo neutralidad (TN) afecta la integridad del epitelio intestinal, parte debido sobreproducción radicales libres. Extractos hierbas (EH) como Capsicum spp., Pipper nigrum y Zingiber officinales poseen actividad antioxidante. Se evaluó el efecto adicionar un extracto EH dieta desempeño productivo 42 (27±3 kg) EC. Los tratamien...