We tested the hypothesis that exercise training (Ex) attenuates the effects of hypercholesterolemia on endothelium-dependent relaxation in left anterior descending coronary arteries. Adult female pigs were fed a normal-fat (NF) or high-fat (HF) diet for 20 wk. Four weeks after the diet was initiated, pigs were trained or remained sedentary (Sed) for 16 wk, yielding four groups of pigs: 1) NF-Se...

Despite acknowledgments of pluralism, Caribbean family researchers often focus on the Afro-Caribbean families and do not satisfactorily address the issues of the IndoCaribbean people, who have been living in the region for well over a century. It is unclear from extant literature whether people of Indian origin in the Caribbean have remained ethnically separate or have blended into the dominant...

Gastric antral dysmotility has been implicated in the pathogenesis of indomethacin-induced gastric damage, but the relationship between gastric motor abnormalities and mucosal lesions has not been extensively studied. We investigated whether changes in gastric tone and gastric retention correlate with mucosal lesions and neutrophil migration in indomethacin-induced gastric damage in rats. Indom...

the present article investigates the administrative structure of the pottery mound from an administrative management point of view. data obtained from excavation of the pottery mound has generated an extensive archeological databank relating to the beginning of the historical era with a focus on the emergence of management and administrative systems in the central iranian plateau. in the proto-...

Hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) populations have experienced global decline because of a history of intense commercial exploitation for shell and stuffed taxidermied whole animals, and harvest for eggs and meat. Improved understanding of genetic diversity and phylogeography is needed to aid conservation. In this study, we analyzed the most geographically comprehensive sample of hawksb...

Since the regulation of vascular function involves complex mutual interactions between NO synthase (NOS) and cyclooxygenase (COX) products, we examined the contribution of NO and prostanoids derived from the COX pathway in modulating aortic baroreceptor resetting during an acute (30 min) increase in arterial pressure in anesthetized rats. Increase in pressure was induced either by administratio...

Indomethacin (INDO), a reversible cyclooxygenase inhibitor, is a useful tool for assessing the role of cerebrovascular reactivity on ventilatory control. Despite this, the effect of INDO on breathing stability during wakefulness has yet to be examined. Although the effect of reductions in cerebrovascular CO(2) reactivity on ventilatory CO(2) sensitivity is likely dependent upon the method used,...

The semantic function tags of Bonial, Stowe, and Palmer (2013) and the ordinal, multi-property annotations of Reisinger et al. (2015) draw inspiration from Dowty’s semantic proto-role theory. We approach proto-role labeling as a multi-label classification problem and establish strong results for the task by adapting a successful model of traditional semantic role labeling. We achieve a proto-ro...