A model of voluntary exercise, in which rats are given free access to a running wheel over a 14-week period, led to left ventricular hypertrophy. To test whether the hypertrophic response to exercise was uniformly distributed across the ventricular wall, single ventricular myocytes were isolated from the sub-epicardium (EPI) and sub-endocardium (ENDO) of exercised rats and from sedentary rats f...

Responses of cat striate cortical cells to a drifting sinusoidal grating were modified by the superimposition of a second, perturbing grating (PG) that did not excite the cell when presented alone. One consequence of the presence of a PG was a shift in the tuning curves. The orientation tuning of all 41 cells exposed to a PG and the spatial frequency tuning of 83% of the 23 cells exposed to a P...

Energy loss from the translational motion of an atom or molecule impinging on a metal surface to the surface may determine whether the incident particle can trap on the surface, and whether it has enough energy left to react with another molecule present at the surface. Although this is relevant to heterogeneous catalysis, the relative extent to which energy loss of hot atoms takes place to pho...

Axial distributions of plasma and floating potentials, electron number density and the electron energy distribution function (EEDF) have been measured in the double layer (DL) region of an He discharge constriction. Excitation processes in the constriction region are studied. Using a linearization method for the nonstationary balance equations and choosing appropriate discharge conditions, ...

We have investigated the electronic structure of KxC60 (x = 0 ~ 6) using low-energy electron energy loss spectroscopy (LEELS), especially focusing on the K3p core-electron excitation spectra. It is found that the structure of the K3p-excitation spectrum of KxC60 quite differs from that of KCl. Furthermore, the K3p-excitation LEELS of K3C60 has been revealed to be different from that of K6C60. K...