High-affinity binding sites for angiotensin II (Ang II) in the ventrolateral medulla suggest that Ang II may act at cell groups that are known to modulate blood pressure. This hypothesis was investigated by the topical application of angiotensin I (Ang I), Ang II, the Ang II antagonist [Sar1, Thr8]Ang II, and the Ang I converting enzyme inhibitor MK 422 to a restricted region of the ventral med...

defects in simultaneously deuterium and carbon ion-implanted tungsten Rie KURATA, Makoto KOBAYASHI, Sachiko SUZUKI, Wanjing WANG, Naoko ASHIKAWA, Akio SAGARA, Naoaki YOSHIDA, Yasuhisa OYA, and Kenji OKUNO 1) Radioscience Research Laboratory, Faculty of Science, Shizuoka University, 836, Ohya, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka 422-8529, Japan 2) National Institute for Fusion Science, Japan 3) Institute of App...

The screening of a gene library of the milk-clotting strain Myxococcus xanthus 422 constructed in Escherichia coli allowed the description of eight positive clones containing 26 open reading frames. Only three of them (cltA, cltB, and cltC) encoded proteins that exhibited intracellular milk-clotting ability in E. coli, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and Pichia pastoris expression systems.

1School of Informatics, Linyi University, Linyi, Shandong 276005, China 2Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Missouri S&T, Rolla, MO 65409-0020, USA 3Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Niğde University, 51200 Niğde, Turkey 4Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Agder, Postboks 422, 4604 Kristiansand, Norway 5School of Mathematics, Sun Yat-sen University,...

Acinetobacter baumannii has emerged as a dangerous nosocomial pathogen, particularly for severely ill patients in intensive care units and patients with hematologic malignancies. Here, we present the complete genome sequence of a multidrug-resistant A. baumannii isolate, recovered from a Mexican hospital and classified as sequence type 422 according to the multilocus sequence typing Pasteur sch...

We determined the effect of chronic administration of the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor, enalapril, on the in vivo pulmonary inactivation of bradykinin (BK) and conversion of angiotensin I (Ang I). In addition we assessed whether chronic ACE inhibition influenced the activity of prolylendopeptidase (PEP), which metabolizes Ang I to generate angiotensin-(1-7) (Ang-[1-7]) and inac...

Using anesthetized and paralyzed monkeys, we have studied the visual response properties of neurons in the cortical area surrounding the middle temporal area (MT) in the superior temporal sulcus (STS). Systematic electrode penetrations revealed that there is a functionally distinct region where three classes of directionally selective cells with large receptive fields cluster. This region is an...