The purpose of this investigation was to examine the temporal changes in uncoupling protein (UCP)-3 expression, as well as related adaptive changes in mitochondrial density and fast-to-slow fiber type transitions during chronically enhanced contractile activity. We examined the effects of 1-42 days of chronic low-frequency electrical stimulation (CLFS), applied to rat tibialis anterior (TA) for...

Uncoupling protein (UCP) is expressed only in brown adipocytes and is responsible for the unique thermogenic properties of this cell type. The novel brown preadipocyte cell line, HIB-1B, expresses UCP in a strictly differentiation-dependent manner. Transgenic mice studies have shown that a region from kb -2.8 to -1.0 of the marine UCP gene is required for brown adipocyte-specific expression. Su...

Uncoupling protein-1 (UCP) is uniquely expressed in brown adipose tissue (BAT) and is essential to the thermogenic function of this tissue. The UCP gene is under the control of norepinephrine (NE) via cAMP. However, the precise delineation of the cAMP response sequences and mechanisms whereby cAMP stimulate the gene have remained elusive. A BAT tumor cell line, HIB-1B, can be differentiated int...

Let M and N be full matrix algebras. A unital completely positive (UCP) map φ : M → N is said to preserve entanglement if its inflation φ ⊗ idN : M ⊗ N → N ⊗ N has the following property: for every maximally entangled pure state ρ of N ⊗ N , ρ ◦ (φ ⊗ idN) is an entangled state of M ⊗N . We show that there is a dichotomy in that every UCP map that is not entanglement breaking in the sense of Hor...

Objective: Reducing white adipose tissue is an important strategy for treatment of obesity and its related metabolic disorders. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of endurance exercise and adenosine consumption on the expression of selected genes of thermogenic pathway in the visceral adipose tissue of obese male rats. Materials and Methods: Twenty male wistar rats were fed ...

The paper presents a universal feedback control policy (UCP) for an arbitrary road network of signalized intersections. At each time and at each intersection, the control simultaneously activates one set of compatible phases or streams. The control is a function of the current state of the road network, the vector of all queue lengths in the network. The activation of a phase permits vehicles t...