As a product of protein catabolism, urea is moved around the body and through kidneys for excretion. Although there experimental evidence concentrative transporters, these have not been defined at molecular level. The SLC14 family are facilitative allowing movement down its concentration gradient. Multiple splice variants transporters identified; UT-A in particular, cell-specific expression wit...

Previous research shows that due to non-facilitative first language (L1) transfer, second (L2) speakers do not develop implicit knowledge of certain grammatical structures. Therefore, the present paper investigates whether L1-Sinhala–L2-English could acquire English object pronouns. To achieve this goal, compares data collected via an untimed grammaticality judgment task (untimed GJT) and oral ...

We explore whether emoji were associatively linked to emotion concepts represented in emotion-laden words, line with the Associative-Propositional Evaluation model. Specifically, we tested these principles by exploring emotionally-congruent could enhance word processing (Study 1 & 2) and recall 3). In Study 1, participants completed a lexical decision task where valence was manipulated. Emoji a...

Glucose represents the major energy source of mammalian cells. Due to its hydrophilic nature, glucose requires specific transporters in order to cross cellular membranes. Such transport is, in the case of glucose and also other monosaccharides, mediated by energy-coupled as well as facilitative mechanisms represented by protein families of sodium-driven sugar cotransporters (SGLTs) and glucose ...