The present study characterizes opioid receptors in an immortalized myocyte cell line, HL-1. Displacement of [(3)H]bremazocine by selective ligands for the mu (mu), delta (delta), and kappa (kappa) receptors revealed that only the delta -selective ligands could fully displace specific [(3)H]bremazocine binding, indicating the presence of only the delta -receptor in these cells. Saturation bindi...

The success of Candida albicans as an opportunistic pathogen is based in part on its ability to adapt to diverse environments. The RIM101 pathway governs adaptation to neutral-alkaline environments and is required for virulence. Analysis of a genomic two-hybrid study conducted with Saccharomyces cerevisiae revealed that components involved in multivesicular bodies (MVB) transport may interact w...

It is possible to select transmembrane potential (delta psi)-altered mutants in Streptococcus pneumoniae on the basis of their resistance to the antifolate methotrexate. Comparison of such a mutant strain ( amiA9 ) with its parent was used to evaluate the role of delta psi in the uptake of certain amino acids. The delta psi-dependent uptake of isoleucine, leucine, valine, and asparagine showed ...

We consider the following viscoelastic equation involving variable exponent nonlinearities:$ u_{tt}-\Delta u+\displaystyle {\int }_0^tg(t-s)\Delta u(s){{{\text{d}}}} s+a|u_{t}|^{m(x)-2}u_{t} = |u|^{q(x)-2}u. $Due to failure of embedding inequality for supercritical case, well-known technique is unsuccessful in our problem. To do this, strategy give a priori estimate weighted integral $ \display...

PURPOSE The latency of adaptation of the human vergence system to a change in convergence or divergence forced upon it by a prism was investigated in this pilot study. METHODS Adaptation was stimulated by a 5-s period of binocular vision through a prism of 0 delta, -8 delta, or 8 delta. Immediately thereafter and for a further period of 45 s, lateral heterophoria was monitored subjectively by...

The kinetics of association and dissociation for the ouabain-Na+,K+-dependent ATPase complex have been studied in intact turkey erythrocytes as a function of external Na+ concentration, K+ concentration, and temperature. At free ligand concentrations substantially exceeding the concentration of available binding sites, the association reaction exhibits pseudo-first-order kinetics with an associ...

The ratio rho(t) = T(p)/T(s) of the complex amplitude transmission coefficients for the p and s polarizations of a transparent unbacked or embedded thin film is examined as a function of the film thickness-to-wavelength ratio d/lambda and the angle of incidence Phi for a given film refractive index N. The maximum value of the differential transmission phase shift (or retardance), Delta(t) = arg...

Let $$S\subset\mathbb R^n$$ be a nonempty set. Given $$d\in [0,n)$$ and cube $$\overline{Q}\subset\mathbb with side length $$l=l(\overline{Q}) \in (0,1]$$ , we show that if the $$d$$ -Hausdorff content $$\mathcal H^d_{\infty}(\overline{Q}\cap S)$$ of set $$\overline{Q}\cap S$$ satisfies inequality S)<\overline{\lambda}l^{d}$$ for some $$\overline{\lambda}\in (0,1)$$ then $$\overline{Q}\setminus...

In this paper, we consider the following system $$ \left \{ \textstyle\begin{array}{ll} n_{t}+u\cdot \nabla n&=\Delta n-\nabla \cdot (n\mathcal{S}(|\nabla c|^{2}) c)-nm, \\ c_{t}+u\cdot c&=\Delta c-c+m, m_{t}+u\cdot m&=\Delta m-mn, u_{t}&=\Delta u+\nabla P+(n+m)\nabla \Phi ,\qquad u=0 \end{array}\displaystyle \right . which models process of coral fertilization, in a smoothly three-dimensional ...