Introduction Skeletal muscle plays a major role in glucose homeostasis in normal health, with approximately 30% of meal carbohydrate being stored as muscle glycogen after the first meal of the day. Liver stores approximately 20% of meal carbohydrate after a single meal in healthy subjects. Together, the glycogen depots behave as a dynamic buffer allowing rapid storage of osmotically active gluc...

In the daily management of type 1 diabetes, self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) is the recommended glycemic monitor, or “Rosetta stone”, that enables improved glycemic control (1 ). By measuring real-time glucose, informed patients can modify their diabetes management acutely or prospectively to sustain glucose in a narrow range near normal. A recent study from the Veterans Administration d...

The past twenty years has seen the field of postharvest biocontrol evolve into a sophisticated science with global research programs worldwide, numerous yearly publications, patented technologies, and the development of new commercial products. The use of these products, however, still remains limited. The practical application of postharvest biocontrol has changed from a very classical view of...

The ability of bile salts to inhibit the precipitation of either calcium hydroxyapatite or its precursor, amorphous calcium phosphate, by reducing CaZ+ activity or poisoning nascent crystals was determined. When apatite precipitated rapidly (1-4 h), glycocholate and taurine-conjugated bile salts (up to 100 mM) had little effect on apatite formation, but prevented amorphous calcium phosphate pre...

During extended deployments there are a number of strategies available to increase alertness. The initial approach is to optimise work rest patterns and the tool being developed at QinetiQ will make this process simpler for commanders. The judicious use of naps is the second approach recommended. The choice of nap duration should take into account the problem of sleep inertia and allow sufficie...

The compounds Re2(CO)8(μ-AuPPh3)2, 1, a dimer of Re(CO)4(μ-AuPPh3), and ax,ax-Re2(CO)8(PPh3)2 were obtained from UV−vis radiationinduced decarbonylation of the compound Re(CO)5[Au(PPh3)]. Compound 1 contains two rhenium atoms bridged by two AuPPh3 groups. The complex has 32 valence electrons and is formally unsaturated by the amount of two electrons. The Re−Re bond distance in 1 is unusually sh...

The primary event in photosynthesis is the capture of sunlight by the light-harvesting antennas. These antennas absorb the sunlight and transmit the resulting singlet electronic excitation to the photochemical reaction centers.1,2 Disciplines Chemistry | Environmental Chemistry | Inorganic Chemistry | Organic Chemistry | Other Chemistry | Polymer Chemistry Comments Reprinted (adapted) with perm...

2014 Measurement of field cooled magnetization of a AgMn 10.6 % alloy as a function of temperature between 4.2 K and 50 K and magnetic field from 26 to 9 000 gauss is performed in order to link the low field and high field regimes of a spin glass. This can possibly help to define a phase diagram in the (H, T) plane as proposed by De Almeida and Thouless and Parisi and Toulouse. A closer investi...

Reactions of Os3(CO)10(NCMe)2 with HGePh3 have yielded the compounds Os3(CO)10(NCMe)(GePh3)(μ-H) (1) and Os3(CO)10(GePh3)2(μ-H)2 (2) by the sequential replacement of the NCMe ligands and the oxidative addition of the GeH bonds of one and two HGePh3 molecules, respectively, to the osmium atoms of the cluster. Compound 2 exists as two isomers in solution at low temperatures which interconvert rap...

Purpose: Fatty acid synthase (FASN) is overexpressed in human breast carcinoma. Auth Biom Cièn Facu M.D d'On Bioq Barce Rece Gran RD06 T. Pu Colom 10, T dad A Span de la from Clin The natural polyphenol (-)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate blocks in vitro FASN activity and leads to apoptosis in breast cancer cells without any effects on carnitine palmitoyltransferase-1 (CPT-1) activity, and in vivo, ...