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The hemodynamic and proinflammatory effects of endothelin-1 (ET-1) in proximal (1st/2nd order) and terminal (3rd/4th order) arterioles and venules were examined in small intestine submucosa of anesthetized guinea pigs. Vessel diameter (D), red blood cell velocity, and blood flow (Q) were determined in eight proximal and eight terminal microvessels before and at 20 min of ET-1 suffusion (10(-10)...

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The high affinity translocator protein (TSPO) ligand 6-chloro-2-(4'-iodophenyl)-3-(N,N-methylethyl)imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine-3-acetamide (CLINME) was radiolabelled with iodine-123 and assessed for its sensitivity for the TSPO in rodents. Moreover neuroinflammatory changes on a unilateral excitotoxic lesion rat model were detected using SPECT imaging. [(123)I]-CLINME was prepared in 70-80% radioche...

Experiments were performed to quantify nitric oxide synthase (NOS) activity and identify the NOS isoforms present in the Sprague-Dawley rat renal vasculature. NOS enzymatic activity was measured by adding [(3)H]arginine to microdissected renal blood vessels and quantifying the conversion to [(3)H]citrulline by reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography. Total NOS activity was greatest...

A (d,h)-decomposition of a graph G is an order pair (D,H) such that H subgraph where has the maximum degree at most h and D acyclic orientation G−E(H) out-degree d. (d,h)-decomposable if (d,h)-decomposition. Let be embeddable in surface nonnegative characteristic. It known (d,h)-decomposable, then h-defective d+1-choosable. In this paper, we investigate graphs prove following four results. (1) ...

Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is expressed in normal human prostate epithelium and is highly up-regulated in prostate cancer. We previously reported a series of novel small molecule inhibitors targeting PSMA. Two compounds, MIP-1072, (S)-2-(3-((S)-1-carboxy-5-(4-iodobenzylamino)pentyl)ureido)pentanedioic acid, and MIP-1095, (S)-2-(3-((S)-1carboxy-5-(3-(4-iodophenyl)ureido)pentyl)ure...