Transient receptor potential (TRP) subfamily M member 5 (TRPM5) cation channel is involved in sensing sweet, bitter, umami, and fat taste stimuli, complex-tasting divalent salts, and temperature-induced changes in sweet taste. To investigate if the amiloride- and benzamil (Bz)-insensitive NaCl chorda tympani (CT) taste nerve response is also regulated in part by TRPM5, CT responses to 100 mM Na...

The provision of NaCl, according to current recommendations, to horses in moderate work has been shown to induce immediate postprandial acidosis. The present study aimed to clarify whether this NaCl induced acidosis i) persists beyond the immediate postprandial period, and ii) is still present after a 2 week adaptation period. Six adult warmblood mares in moderate work received daily 1.00 kg ha...

Macula densa cells are unique renal biosensor cells that detect changes in luminal NaCl concentration ([NaCl](L)) and transmit signals to the mesangial cellafferent arteriolar complex. They are the critical link between renal salt and water excretion and glomerular hemodynamics, thus playing a key role in regulation of body fluid volume. Since identification of these cells in the early 1900s, t...

Fifty-eight terrestrial and salt-tolerant myxobacteria were isolated from the saline-alkaline soils collected from Xinjiang, China. Based on the morphologies and the 16S rRNA gene sequences, these isolates were assigned into 6 genera, Myxococcus, Cystobacter, Corallococcus, Sorangium, Nannocystis and Polyangium. All the strains grew better with 1% NaCl than without NaCl. Some Myxococcus strains...

in renal medullary cells helps protect them from the high interstitial concentrations of NaCl and urea to which they normally are exposed during operation of the renal concentrating mechanism (6, 11). Its presence was discovered more than 50 years ago, and it was found to increase during antidiuresis in response to elevation of renal medullary interstitial NaCl and urea concentration (22, 25). ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of dietary supplementation with sodium chloride (NaCl) on urinary calcium excretion, urine calcium concentration, and urinary relative supersaturation (RSS) with calcium oxalate (CaOx). ANIMALS 6 adult female healthy Beagles. PROCEDURE By use of a crossover study design, a canned diet designed to decrease CaOx urolith recurrence with and without supplemental...

The growth of the halotolerant cyanobacterium Aphanothece halophytica, previously adapted to 0.5 molar NaCl, was optimal when NaCl concentration in culture medium was in the range 0.5 to 1.0 molar. The growth was delayed at either too low or too high salinities with lag time of ca. 0.5 day in 0.25 molar NaCl and ca. 2 days in 2 molar NaCl under the experimental conditions. However, the growth r...

rapeseed (brassica napus l.) is a crop relatively tolerant to salt. the effect of different ratios of nacl/kcl was studied in two cultivars (hyola308 and kristina) of rapeseed in 2002. canola seedlings were grown in hoagland’s solutions, which were salinized by different ratios of nacl/kcl. the treatments or kcl:nacl ratios were 0:0 (control);10:10; 20:0 (total added salt or tas=20 mol.m-3), 0:...

BURG, MAURICE, AND NORDICA GREEN. Function of the thick ascending limb of Henle’s loop. Am. J. Physiol. 224(3) : 659-668. 1973.-The thick ascending limb of Henle’s loop was dissected from rabbit kidneys and perfused in vitro. There was net NaCl absorption from the tubule lumen with resultant lowering of lumen NaCl concentration below that of the bath. Since the electrical PD was positive in the...

Cancer chemotherapy using carbamate insecticides has been published by the first author. This study was to evaluate their effects on other cell types because; pesticides and insecticides can affect the health of living organisms through different mechanisms such as membrane denaturation. The evaluation of the deleterious effects of chemical agents on biological membranes can be performed throug...