PURPOSE To test the hypothesis that subnormal retinal oxygenation response (DeltaPo2) found at 3 months of experimental diabetes is associated with cellular swelling and increased retinal thickness. METHODS Two groups of animals were studied: control rats injected intraperitoneally with either 15% body weight of saline or distilled water (cellular swelling model) or with intravitreal N-methyl...

l. After injection of NaCl into the abdominal hemocoel of BIaberus craniifer, the osmotic concentration of antenna1 hemolymph peaked at 1.25 hr and returned to pre-injection concentration by 21 hr. The mean plasma clearance was 2.67 @/hr. 2. Force-feeding of water 15min after injection of NaCl prevented the early rise in hemolymph osmotic concentration, but a later gradual increase in osmotic c...

Sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate (SDBS), Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP, MW 10 kDa), and NaCl were obtained from Sigma Aldrich. Microcalorimetry experiments were performed using a MicorCal ITC-VP at the University of Albany Proteomics Facility in Rensselaer, NY. SDBS was added to de-ionized distilled water, and placed into the injection syringe of the microcalorimeter, and added to the sample cell c...

various researches on laboratory and field scale illustrate that manipulating the ionic composition and the ion concentration of injected water can affect the efficiency of water flooding and the interaction of injected water with rock and other fluids present in porous media. the objectives of this paper are to investigate parameters that affect low salinity water flooding; mainly the effect o...

Preliminary human studies suggest the presence of an upper esophageal sphincter (UES) contractile reflex triggered by pharyngeal water stimulation. The purposes of this study were to further characterize this reflex and determine the threshold volume for its activation. We studied 10 healthy young volunteers by manometric technique before and after topical pharyngeal anesthesia. UES pressure re...

SHA1 is the representative reservoir in Liao He Basin. Through the introduction of curvature displayed on the gray scale, we determine the substructure and fractures. Geostatistical inversion method is used to help study the porosity of reservoir. The relationship between interval transit times and resistivity among mudstone and sandstone, before and after water injection, is analyzed. The rela...

The effects of intracerebroventricular (ICV) injection of angiotensin II (ANG II) on blood pressure and water intake were examined with the use of ANG II receptor-deficient mice. ICV injection of ANG II increased systolic blood pressure in a dose-dependent manner in wild-type (WT) mice and ANG type 2 AT(2) receptor null (knockout) (AT(2)KO) mice; however, this increase was significantly greater...