We examined the effect of glucocorticoids on brush border membrane transporters and, furthermore, the involvement of Ca2+ in its action in the primary cultured rabbit renal proximal tubule cells (PTCs). Dexamethasone (DEX, 10(-9) M) decreased Pi uptake by 17%; whereas DEX affected neither alpha-methyl-glucopyranoside (alpha-MG) uptake nor Na+ uptake. The DEX-induced inhibition of Pi uptake was ...

BACKGROUND We hypothesized that induction of general anesthesia using sevoflurane improves the accuracy of non-invasive hemoglobin (SpHb) measurement of Masimo Radical-7® Pulse CO-Oximetry by inducing peripheral vasodilation and increasing the perfusion index (PI). The aim of this study is to investigate the change in the SpHb and the PI measured by Rad7 during induction of general anesthesia u...

BACKGROUND Cord blood (CB) viability determines product quality and varies with time and temperature of exposure before cryopreservation. Global viability assessment may not reflect viability of white blood cell (WBC) subsets, CD34+ cell viability, or hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells function. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS We compared trypan blue (TB) and acridine orange/propidium iodide (AO/PI...

The aim of this study was to review the proinflammatory cytokine profiles in the peri-implant crevicular fluid (PICF) of patients with peri-implantitis (PI). Databases were explored from 1994 up to and including July 2010 using various combinations of the following keywords: "cytokine", "crevicular fluid", "implant", "inflammation", "peri-implantitis" and "periodontitis". The eligibility criter...

We evaluate by means of lattice QCD calculations the low-energy constant $\ell_{7}$ which parametrizes strong isospin effects at NLO in $\rm{SU}(2)$ chiral perturbation theory. Among all constants NLO, is one known less precisely, and its uncertainty currently larger than $50\%$. Our strategy based on RM123 approach path-integral expanded powers breaking parameter $\Delta m= (m_{d}-m_{u})/2$. I...

We study the full angular distribution of semileptonic rare charm baryon decays in which secondary undergoes weak decay with sizable polarization parameter, $\Xi_c^+\to\Sigma^+\,(\to p\pi^0)\ell^+\ell^-$, $\Xi_c^0\to\Lambda^0\,(\to p \pi^-)\ell^+\ell^-$ and $\Omega_c^0\to\Xi^0\,(\to \Lambda^{0} \pi^0)\ell^+\ell^-$. Such self-analyzing chains allow for seven additional observables compared to th...

BACKGROUND Protease inhibitor (PI)-resistant HIV-1 isolates with primary substitutions in protease (PR) and secondary substitutions in Gag could potentially exhibit cross-resistance to maturation inhibitors. We evaluated the second-generation maturation inhibitor, GSK3532795, for activity toward clinical isolates with genotypic and phenotypic characteristics associated with PI resistance (longi...

Lettuce was seeded in pots in the greenhouse and in field microplots in 1991 and 1992. Pots and microplots were filled with untreated or fumigated organic soil infested with Meloidogyne hapla at seven initial population densities (Pi) (0 to 32 eggs/cm(3) soil). Lettuce weight, severity of root galling, and number of eggs per root system (Pf) were determined after 8 weeks. At the highest Pi, M. ...

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