Wrack deposition on sandy beaches varies spatially and is affected by morphological features on the beach-face such as cusps. This study tested a series of hypotheses regarding the differences in wrack deposits, sediments and macrofaunal communities between cusp bays and horns. Bays had greater cover and larger pieces of wrack than horns. Sediment organic-matter content was greater on horns tha...

OBJECTIVE Helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) are widely used in regional trauma care and present unique challenges in the patient handoff process. In particular, the practice of patient handoff on the landing zone versus the trauma bay does not exist in ground emergency medical services. We hypothesized that patients handed off on the landing zone versus the trauma bay would have diff...

Nitric oxide (NO)-cGMP signaling plays a critical role during the transition of the pulmonary circulation at birth. BAY 41-2272 is a novel NO-independent direct stimulator of soluble guanylate cyclase that causes vasodilation in systemic and local circulations. However, the hemodynamic effects of BAY 41-2272 have not been studied in the perinatal pulmonary circulation. We hypothesized that BAY ...

The actions of the enantiomers of Bay K 8644 and 202-791 were studied in rat tail artery and guinea pig ileal longitudinal smooth muscle using pharmacologic and radioligand binding assays. (-)-(S)-Bay K 8644 (below 10(-7) M in rat tail artery and 3 X 10(-7) M in guinea pig ileum) and (+)-(S)-202-791 (below 10(-6) M) induced contractions and potentiated the responses to KCl depolarization in bot...

BACKGROUND BAY 86-6150 is a new human recombinant factor VIIa variant developed for high procoagulant activity and longer action in people with hemophilia with inhibitors. OBJECTIVES To investigate the safety, tolerability, pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics and immunogenicity of BAY 86-6150 in non-bleeding hemophilia subjects. METHODS The study included non-bleeding men (18-65 years of age...

BACKGROUND By the formation of cGMP, nitric oxide (NO)-sensitive guanylyl cyclase (GC) acts as the effector for the signaling molecule NO and mediates the relaxation of vascular smooth muscle and the inhibition of platelet aggregation. The compounds YC-1 and BAY 41-2272 are regarded as NO-independent activators and sensitizers of NO-sensitive GC. In vivo effects, for example, lowering blood pre...

Selective inhibition of exclusively transcription-regulating PTEFb/CDK9 is a promising new approach in cancer therapy. Starting from lead compound BAY-958, lead optimization efforts strictly focusing on kinase selectivity, physicochemical and DMPK properties finally led to the identification of the orally available clinical candidate atuveciclib (BAY 1143572). Structurally characterized by an u...

Surface ozone (O3) was analyzed to investigate the role of the bay breeze on air quality at two locations in Edgewood, Maryland (lat: 39.4°, lon: −76.3°) for the month of July 2011. Measurements were taken as part of the first year of NASA’s “Deriving Information on Surface Conditions from Column and Vertically Resolved Observations Relevant to Air Quality” (DISCOVER-AQ) Earth Venture campaign ...

We tested the importance of in situ microphytobenthos (MPB) and transported material (seagrass, seagrass epiphytic algae,mangroves, saltmarsh succulents and saltmarsh grass in adjacent habitats) as ultimate sources of carbon to fish caught over mudflats. We measured dC values of these 6 autotrophs and 22 fish species in the subtropical waters of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. All fish dC v...