Organic carbon (OC) sequestration in degraded semi-arid environments by improved soil management is assumed to contribute substantially to climate change mitigation. However, information about the soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration potential in steppe soils and their current saturation status remains unknown. In this study, we estimated the OC storage capacity of semi-arid grassland soils ...

During slow-wave sleep, anterior piriform cortex neurons show highly synchronized discharges that accompany olfactory cortex sharp waves (OC-SPWs). The OC-SPW-related synchronized activity of anterior piriform cortex neurons travel down to the olfactory bulb and is thought to be involved in the reorganization of bulbar neuronal circuitry. However, influences of the OC-SPW-related activity on ot...

Ovarian cancer (OC) is the second leading cause of gynecological cancer death worldwide. Although the list of biomarkers is still growing, molecular mechanisms involved in OC development and progression remain elusive. We recently demonstrated that lower expression of the molecular chaperone TRAP1 in OC patients correlates with higher tumor grade and stage, and platinum resistance. Herein we sh...

BACKGROUND Nuclear enriched abundant transcript 1 (NEAT1) has been demonstrated to act as a tumor inhibitor in many cancers. However, the role of NEAT1 in the development of ovarian cancer (OC) remains far from being elaborated. Hence, the aim of this study is to investigate the expression and function of NEAT1 in OC. MATERIALS AND METHODS The expression level of NEAT1 was determined by quant...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the risk of psychiatric diagnoses in individuals with non-syndromic oral clefts (OC) compared with individuals without OC, including ages from 1 to 76 years. METHODS Linking four Danish nationwide registers, we investigated the risk of psychiatric diagnoses at Danish psychiatric hospitals during the period 1969-2012 for individuals born with...

Caffeine consumption increases the urinary excretion of calcium and other minerals. Factors that affect caffeine metabolism such as steroid hormones may modify this effect. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of oral contraceptive (OC) use on the 4-h urinary excretion of calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, zinc, sodium, potassium and caffeine metabolites in response to a high ca...

This paper concerns amplitude-preserving kinematically equivalent offset continuation (OC) operators. I introduce a revised partial differential OC equation as a tool to build OC operators that preserve offset-dependent reflectivity in prestack processing. The method of characteristics is applied to reveal the geometric laws of the OC process. With the help of geometric (kinematic) construction...

sive sample collection. In addition to 24-h samples, as used in this study, OC can be measured from spot urine samples collected as the first or second morning void (9, 11). Moreover, U-OC responds to therapy more rapidly than S-OC. In summary, the results suggest that U-OC is a useful marker for monitoring short-term changes in bone metabolism in response to antiresorptive therapy in postmenop...

To test the hypothesis that estrogen reduces the operating point for osmoregulation of arginine vasopressin (AVP), thirst, and body water balance, we studied nine women (25 +/- 1 yr) during 150 min of dehydrating exercise followed by 180 min of ad libitum rehydration. Subjects were tested six different times, during the early-follicular (twice) and midluteal (twice) menstrual phases and after 4...

BACKGROUND Cigarette smoking and oral contraceptive (OC) use have been associated with cervical neoplasia, and the combination of smoking and OC use could influence cervical carcinogenesis. We aimed to assess the joint effect of smoking and OC use on the risk of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN). METHODS From a cohort of human papillomavirus-positive subjects recruited from 6 hospitals...