The estrogenic activity of the chemical UV-filters, 4-methylbenzylidene camphor (4-MBC) and octyl methoxy cinnamate (OMC) was investigated in an vivo rainbow trout ( Oncorhynchus mykiss ) assay. Plasma vitellogenin concentrations were quantified by means Enzyme Linked Immuno Sorbent Assay (ELISA) juvenile before after intraperitoneal injection test compounds. Injection 4-MBC on day 0, 3, 6 10 e...

BACKGROUND Intermittent pneumatic compression (IPC) of legs exerts beneficial local vascular effects, possibly through local release of nitric oxide (NO). However, studies demonstrating systemic transport of nitrogen oxide species and release of NO prompt the question of whether IPC could also exert nonlocal effects. We tested whether IPC (1) affects systemic levels of nitrite, S-nitrosothiols ...

We present an analysis of wide-field infrared extinction maps of a region in Perseus just north of the Taurus-Auriga dark cloud complex. From this analysis we have identified a massive, nearby, but previously unrecognized, giant molecular cloud (GMC). Both a uniform foreground star density and measurements of the cloud’s velocity field from CO observations indicate that this cloud is likely a c...

OBJECTIVES Comprehensive epidemiological and economic studies of gastric cancer (GC) in Panama are limited. This study aims to evaluate the association between socioeconomic and clinical variables with survival, describe the survival outcomes according to clinical stage and estimate the direct costs associated to GC care in a Panamanian population with GC. DESIGN AND SETTING A retrospective o...

Ordered mesoporous carbons (OMCs), obtained by nanocasting using ordered mesoporous silicas (OMSs) as hard templates, exhibit unique arrangements of ordered regular nanopore/nanowire mesostructures. Here, we used nanocasting combined with hot-pressing to prepare 10 wt% OMC/OMS/SiO2 ternary composites possessing various carbon mesostructure configurations of different dimensionalities (1D isolat...

Previous studies in our laboratory reported L-malate as a free radical scavenger in aged rats. To investigate the antioxidant mechanism of L-malate in the mitochondria, we analyzed the change in gene expression of two malate-aspartate shuttle (MAS)-related carried proteins (AGC, aspartate/glutamate carrier and OMC, oxoglutarate/malate carrier) in the inner mitochondrial membrane, and three anti...

The distribution of CO J = 9 → 8 (1.037 THz) emission has been mapped in OMC-1 at 35 points with 84 resolution. This is the first map of this source in this transition and only the second velocityresolved ground-based observation of a line in the terahertz frequency band. There is emission present at all points in the map, a region roughly 4 by 6 in size, with peak antenna temperature dropping ...

Comparative analyses of the nuclear matrix elements (NMEs) related to 0νβ + β decay 106 Cd ground state Pd and ordinary muon capture (OMC) in are performed. This is first time OMC NMEs studied for a nucleus decaying via positron-emitting/electron-capture modes double beta decay. All present calculations based on proton-neutron quasiparticle random-phase approximation with large no-core single-p...