With increased dietary NaCl intake (8% NaCl), the borderline hypertensive rat develops hypertension, thus expressing the phenotype of the spontaneously hypertensive parent. Since arterial baroreceptor reflex function is impaired in the spontaneously hypertensive parent, it was the objective of this study to examine arterial baroreceptor reflex function in the borderline hypertensive rat made hy...

Abstract: Previous studies have shown that X-rays are produced by electrically accelerating electrons produced by thermionic emission from a hot filament. The emitted electrons are then directed toward a crystal via collimator to study crystal properties. When the target material of the X-ray tube is bombarded with electrons accelerated from the cathode filament, two types of X-ray spectra are ...

The mobility (diffusion and trapping) of the heavy rare gases Kr, Xe, and Rn in pure and doped NaCl single crystals was measured following ion bombardment to various integrated doses (108 to 2X1016 ions/cm2) and at energies between 30 and 500 keV. No obvious effect of doping on release was found. At low gas concentrations, release was compatible with volume diffusion yielding an acti­ vation en...

1. Male broiler chickens were given a sodium chloride-deficient or NaCl-adequate diet from 7 to 21 d of age in Expt 1 and 28 to 56 d of age in Expt 2. 2. NaCl-deficient chickens had a markedly poorer growth and food conversion efficiency than those given the NaCl-adequate diet. 3. NaCl deficiency was associated with an increase in basal metabolic rate and increases in oxygen consumption, heat p...

The current study tested the hypothesis that high NaCl diets elevate blood pressure in NaCl-sensitive spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR-S) by reducing noradrenergic input to depressor neurons in the anterior hypothalamus. SHR-S were studied at 7 weeks of age, and age-matched salt resistant SHR (SHR-R) and normotensive Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY) were controls. Rats were fed either high (8%) NaCl...

Several lines of evidence suggest that peripheral osmoreceptors respond to alterations in dietary NaCl by adjusting renal sympathetic nerve activity, but the impact of this reflex on the long-term regulation of mean arterial pressure (MAP) remains unclear. The present study tested the hypothesis that denervation of peripheral osmoreceptors elevates arterial pressure and induces NaCl-sensitive h...

A study was conducted to investigate the impact of NaCl on the physiological and biochemical traits of Chlorella vulgaris Beijerinck. In order to determine the impact of NaCl, Chlorella was exposed to different concentrations of NaCl ranging from 0.1-0.4M besides control over a period of 30 days. It was found that total chlorophyll contents stimulated at lower concentrations of NaCl (0.1 and 0....

Salinity stress affected crop production of more than 20% of irrigated land globally. In the present study the effect of different concentrations of NaCl (0, 100, and 200 mM) on growth, physio-biochemical attributes, antioxidant enzymes, oil content, etc. in Brassica juncea and the protective role of Trichoderma harzianum (TH) was investigated. Salinity stress deteriorates growth, physio-bioche...

Chapman et al. (B. Chapman, N. Jensen, T Ross, and M. B. Cole, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72:5165-5172, 2006) demonstrated that an increased NaCl concentration prolongs survival of Escherichia coli O157 SERL 2 in a broth model simulating the aqueous phase of a food dressing or sauce containing acetic acid. We examined the responses of five other E. coli strains and four Salmonella enterica strai...