27 28 Regulation of the putative amiloride and benzamil (Bz)-insensitive TRPV1t salt 29 taste receptor by phosphatidylinositol 4, 5-bisphosphate (PIP2) was investigated by 30 monitoring chorda tympani (CT) taste nerve responses to 0.1M NaCl solutions 31 containing Bz (5x10 M; a specific ENaC blocker) and resiniferatoxin (RTX; 0-10x10 32 M; a specific TRPV1 agonist) in Sprague-Dawley rats and in...

Expression of the proinflammatory and proangiogenic chemokine IL-8, which is regulated at the transcriptional level by NF-κB, is constitutively increased in androgen-independent metastatic prostate cancer and correlates with poor prognosis. Inhibition of NF-κB-dependent transcription was used as an anticancer strategy for the development of the first clinically approved 26S proteasome inhibitor...

We investigated the self-oscillating behaviors of two types of polymer chains induced by the Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction. One consisted of N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAAm) and the Ru catalyst of the BZ reaction, and the other consisted of NIPAAm, the Ru catalyst, and acrylamide-2-methylpropanesulfonic acid (AMPS) with a negatively charged domain as a solubility control site. A comparison o...

Vegetative buffer zones adjacent to watercourses can be effective filters for diffuse pollution from agriculture. Several investigations, even during snowmelt season, have shown that retention of sediments and sediment-bound nutrients in runoff water has been high through buffer zones (BZ). It is likely that BZ also can be effective filters for sediment-bound pesticides. The retention of glypho...

DFT and MP2 calculations are performed to obtain optimized ground state geometries and binding energies of the cage and the prism conformers of water W6 clusters and Bz-W6 clusters using the aug-cc-pVDZ basis set. The cage conformer of Bz-W6 system is found to be more stable than prism conformer for all range of DFT functionals and MP2. Time dependent-DFT is then used to study UV spectroscopy o...

Here we report the syntheses and crystal structures of a series of cobalt(II) and nickel(II) complexes derived from (R)NP2 ligands (where R = OMe(Bz), H(Bz), Br(Bz), Ph) bearing ethylene linkers between a single N and two P donors. The Co(II) complexes generally adopt a tetrahedral configuration of general formula [(NP2)Co(I)(2)], wherein the two phosphorus donors are bound to the metal center ...

The conversion of mechanical to chemical energy is a natural phenomenon that few synthetic materials have been able to mimic robustly. The fi rst demonstration of mechanical triggering of Belousov–Zhabotinsky (BZ) oscillations is presented in N -isopropylacrylamideco -Ru(bpy) 3 gels for which the oscillatory nature of the BZ reaction can be visualized via periodic changes in color. It is demons...

The affinities of typical and atypical benzodiazepines (BZs) for 3H-flunitrazepam (FLU) and 3H-Ro 5-4864, "peripheral" BZ, binding sites in the central nervous system (CNS) were compared. Each dissociation constant (Kd) value of the 3H-FLU binding sites in the cerebellum, cortex, hippocampus and spinal cord showed the similar results, although the binding maximum (Bmax) for the cortex and cereb...

The clinical application of Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), using several herbs in combination (called formulas), has a history of more than one thousand years. However, the bioactive compounds that account for their therapeutic effects remain unclear. We hypothesized that the material basis of a formula are those compounds with a high content in the decoction that are maintained at a certa...