This article is to investigate the effect of human recombinant phospholipase D2 (rhPLD2) in vivo on the expression of nuclear transcription factor p65 in chronic asthma of guinea pigs. After treating the guinea pigs with chronic asthma by rhPLD2, the crude nuclear extraction was assayed with TransAM Transcription Factor Assay Kit for the activity of pulmo tissue nuclear transcription factor p65...

The histological morphology of oviduct epithelia have been described well, however, the expression pattern of the gap junction proteins in the cells, and the function related with the proteins, such as [Ca2+]i dynamics pattern of living oviduct epithelia at different ages have not been clarified. We used immunohistochemistry to compare the expression pattern of gap junction proteins in the cell...

Form deprivation (FD) was induced in 61 guinea pigs with a diffuser worn on one eye. The form-deprived eye elongated and developed myopia within 6 days in animals raised under a 12:12 h light/dark cycle, but not when reared in darkness. After 11 days of FD, the average eye was -6.6 D more myopic and 146 microm longer than its fellow eye. Initially the myopia was mostly from vitreous chamber elo...

The method of competitive binding [Kaplan, Stevenson & Hartley (1971) Biochem. J. 124, 289-299] with 1-fluoro-2,4-dinitrobenzene as the labelling reagent [Duggleby & Kaplan (1975) Biochemistry 14, 5168-5175] was used to determine the chemical properties, namely pK and reactivity, of the amino groups, the histidine residues and the tyrosine residues of the dimeric form of pig zinc-free insulin a...

This paper considers Thomas Beddoes's role in disseminating German psychological ideas in Britain. It describes the German tradition as inaugurated by Karl Philipp Moritz (1756-93) and considers the chief differences between this tradition and the English one stemming from David Hartley. It is suggested that Beddoes found strong support for his convictions about human interiority in writings by...

BACKGROUND An estimated one fifth of all U.S. adult smokers receive health benefits through insurance plans administered by Taft-Hartley Health and Welfare Funds. Most funds do not offer comprehensive tobacco-cessation services to fund participants despite evidence that doing so would be cost effective and save lives. PURPOSE This paper examines the decision-making processes of Minnesota-base...

Sensitivity studies of the recent new data on O(D) quantum yields in O3 Hartley band photolysis in the stratosphere N. Taniguchi, S. Hayashida, K. Takahashi, and Y. Matsumi Faculty of Science, Nara Women’s University, Kitauoya-Nishimachi, Nara, 630-8506, Japan Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, Honohara 3–13, Toyokawa, 442-8507, Japan Received: 3 February 2003 – Accept...

A set of fast real transforms including the well known Hartley transform is fully investigated. Mixed radix splitting properties of Hartley-type transforms are examined in detail. The matrix algebras diagonalized by the Hartley-type matrices are expressed in terms of circulant and (−1)-circulant matrices. © 2002 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.

The history of RIPs, especially the toxic ones, has been well reviewed recently. This present chapter will summarize the research steps that in the last 40 years have led to significant advancements in the knowledge of these proteins, of their mechanism of action, and of their possible practical applications in medicine and in agriculture. Ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs), initially discov...

Objective: The use of drugs with herbal origin is increasing for treatment of gastrointestinal (GI) disorders. Rosa damascena (R. damascena) is a well-known plant suggested to have beneficial effect on GI system. In this study, the effect of aqueous fraction of R. damascena on the contractionsofisolated guinea pig ileum was investigated. Materials and Methods: Aqueous fraction of plant was obta...