Previous genetic studies in Sphingomonas macrogolitabida strain TFA have established that expression of genes involved in tetralin biodegradation (thn genes) requires the function of the LysR type activator ThnR and also ThnY. Sequence comparison indicated that ThnY is homologous to bacterial oxygenase-coupled NAD(P)H-dependent ferredoxin reductases. However, ThnY showed substitutions in highly...

In this study we examined estrogenic activity of styrene oligomers after metabolic activation by rat liver microsomes. Trans-1,2-diphenylcyclobutane (TCB), cis-1,2-diphenylcyclobutane (CCB), 1,3-diphenylpropane, 2,4-diphenyl-1-butene, 2,4,6-triphenyl-1-hexene, and 1-alpha-phenyl-4ss-(1 -phenylethyl)tetralin were negative in the yeast estrogen screening assay and estrogen reporter assay using es...

5-Hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) is involved in mammalian thermoregulation of the preoptic anterior hypothalamus (PO/AH), but the underlying molecular mechanisms are not fully understood. In this study, we investigated the influence of 5-HT and agonists and antagonists of the 5-HT1A, 5-HT2A, 5-HT3 and 5-HT7 receptors on voltage-gated calcium currents in the PO/AH slice with the whole-cell patch clamp...

We developed a thermal diffusion forced Rayleigh scattering (TDFRS) setup operating at a writing wavelength of 980 nm, which corresponds to an absorption band of water with an absorption coefficient of approximately 0.5 cm(-1). Therefore, aqueous mixtures require no dye to convert the light into heat energy. Especially for aqueous system with a complex phase behavior such as surfactant systems,...

Metastable [M H]+ ions of a,o-diphenylalkanes C,H,(CH,),C,H, where x = 3-6 (structures 3-6 respectively), generated by hydride abstraction in the chemical ionization (i-butane) source, eliminate benzene after proton exchange between the aromatic rings. The proton exchange is slow for ions [3 H]+ and [4 HI+, but fast and apparently complete for ions [S H]+ and [6 H]+ These observations, combined...

Inhibitory 5-HT(1a) receptors are located on serotonin (5-HT) neurons (autoreceptors) as well as neurons of the respiratory network (heteroreceptors). Thus, effects on breathing of 5-HT(1a) agonists, such as (R)-(+)-8-hydroxy-2-(di-N-propylamino) tetralin (8-OH-DPAT), could either be due to decreased firing of 5-HT neurons or direct effects on the respiratory network. Mice in which the transcri...