Our recent study showed that prenatal and early postnatal exposure of mice to side-steam tobacco smoke (SS), a surrogate to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), leads to increased airway responsiveness and sensory innervation later in life. However, the underlying mechanism initiated in early life that affects airway responses later in life remains undefined. The concomitant increase in nerve gro...

Recent findings suggest that neural complexity reflecting a number of independent processes in the brain may characterize typical changes during epileptic seizures and may enable to describe preictal dynamics. With respect to previously reported findings suggesting specific changes in neural complexity during preictal period, we have used measure of pointwise correlation dimension (PD2) as a se...

Population-based studies assessing self-reported periodontal questions in low-income countries are lacking, and therefore we aimed to assess the accuracy of self-reported periodontal items in Brazil. One thousand one hundred and forty adults from Florianópolis, Brazil, had their periodontium clinically examined, and responded to the following self-reported items on periodontal conditions: Quest...

1. Perivascular nerves of the sheep middle cerebral artery show immunoreactivity for both vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) and calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP). 2. Rings of endothelium-denuded sheep middle cerebral artery precontracted with 5-hydroxytryptamine were relaxed by CGRP (maximum relaxation = 87.8 +/- 8.1%, pD2 = 7.81 +/- 0.12, n = 12) and by VIP (maximum relaxation = 55....

BACKGROUND The dynamic cross-talk between epididymal cells is hormonally regulated and, in part, through direct cell-to-cell interactions. To date, no information is available regarding possible impact of anti-androgens on the proteins involved in the gap junctional communication within the boar epididymis. Thus, a question arised whether prenatal or postnatal exposure to an anti-androgen fluta...

A quadcopter control system is a fundamentally difficult and challenging problem because its dynamics modelling highly nonlinear, especially after accounting for the complicated aerodynamic effects. Plus, variables are interdependent coupled in nature. There six controllers studied analysed this work which (1) Proportional–Integral–Derivative (PID), (2) Proportional-Derivative (PD), (3) Linear ...

Here, we present the draft genome sequence of Propionibacterium (Cutibacterium) avidum strain UCD-PD2. The assembly contains 2,667,287 bp in 51 contigs. The strain was isolated from anal sac secretion samples collected from a feral domestic cat (Felis catus) as part of a larger project to study the microbiology of cats.

Efficient palladium-catalysed cascade cyclisation to form spiroindoles is developed. Treatment of indoles bearing a propargyl chloride side chain at the 3-position with various external nucleophiles in the presence of a catalytic amount of Pd2(dba)3·CHCl3/dppb and Cs2CO3 in THF gives fused tetracyclic spiroindoles in moderate to good yields.

The renin/angiotensin system (RAS) is a tonic anti-drop regulator of arterial blood pressure in many teleosts. In trout, angiotensin II (ANG II) has no direct constrictor effect on large arteries or veins and the identity of specific cardiovascular pressor effectors is unknown. Potential targets of angiotensin activation were examined in the present experiments using perfused organs and isolate...