The response of Aplysia abdominal ganglion neuron L2 to the molluscan neuroactive peptide Phe-Met-Arg-Phe-NH2 (FMRFamide) was studied in voltage-clamp experiments. In all of the experiments, focal application of the peptide to the soma activated an inward rectifier current and reduced the apparent amplitude of the transient K current, IA. In a few cells, Na and K currents were activated in addi...

Voltage-dependent membrane currents were studied in dissociated hepatocytes from chick, using the patch-clamp technique. All cells had voltage-dependent outward K+ currents; in 10% of the cells, a fast, transient, tetrodotoxin-sensitive Na+ current was identified. None of the cells had voltage-dependent inward Ca2+ currents. The K+ current activated at a membrane potential of about -10 mV, had ...

Several cloned ClC-type Cl- channels open and close in a voltage-dependent manner. The Torpedo electric organ Cl- channel, ClC-0, is the best studied member of this gene family. ClC-0 is gated by a fast and a slow gating mechanism of opposite voltage direction. Fast gating is dependent on voltage and on the external and internal Cl- concentration, and it has been proposed that the permeant anio...

Whole-cell currents were recorded in guinea pig ventricular myocytes at approximately 36 degrees C before, during, and after exposure to maximally effective concentrations of strophanthidin, a cardiotonic steroid and specific inhibitor of the Na/K pump. Wide-tipped pipettes, in combination with a device for exchanging the solution inside the pipette, afforded reasonable control of the ionic com...

The voltage sensor of the Shaker potassium channel is comprised mostly of positively charged residues in the putative fourth transmembrane segment, S4 (Aggarwal, S.K., and R. MacKinnon. 1996. Neuron. 16:1169-1177; Seoh, S.-A., D. Sigg, D.M. Papazian, and F. Bezanilla. 1996. Neuron. 16:1159-1167). Movement of the voltage sensor in response to a change in the membrane potential was examined indir...

the fabrication of a non-doped red organic light-emitting device (oled) has been developed using naturally occurring curcumin as an emissive layer of oled. in this research, the electroluminescent spectrum (el) of curcumin as a donor-acceptor-donor (d-a-d) chromophore was obtained at wavelength of 612 nm. also, the maximum external quantum efficiencies (eqe) for this device was measured and fou...

A new modified Adomian Decomposition Method (ADM) was utilized to obtain an analytical solution for the buckling of the nanocantilever actuators immersed in liquid electrolytes. The nanoactuators in electrolytes are subject to different nonlinear forces including ionic concentration, van der Waals, external voltage and electrochemical forces. The Duan–Rach modified Adomian decomposition method ...

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION The AD561 is an integrated circuit 10-bit digital-to-analog converter combined with a high stability voltage reference fabricated on a single monolithic chip. Using ten precision highspeed current-steering switches, a control amplifier, voltage reference, and laser-trimmed thin-film SiCr resistor network, the device produces a fast, accurate analog output current. Laser trim...

This paper presents a piezoelectric energy harvesting system demonstrating the output power enhancement when using a CMOS integrated pulsed-resonance converter (PRC) instead of a simple Schottky diode bridge rectifier. The combination of a storage capacitor, a blinking light emitting diode (LED) and a voltage detector forms a fixed voltage regulator and visualizes the output power extracted out...