The in vitro sensitivities to local anaesthetic blockade of A, B and C nerve fibres in rabbit vagus nerves were examined using a series of structurally similar amino-ester agents which varied in lipid solubility and anaesthetic potency. A fibres were found to be the most sensitive and C fibres the least sensitive to conduction blockade with all the agents, provided that equilibrium blockade was...

The organisation of the myofibrils and the sarcoplasmic reticulum in frog slow muscle fibres has been compared with that in twitch fibres. It has been found that the filaments have the same length in the two types of fibre, but that there are differences in their packing: (a) in contrast to the regular arrangement of the I filaments near the Z line in twitch fibres, those in slow fibres are irr...

Immunohistochemical studies have been performed to investigate the coexistence of VIP with dopamine-beta-hydroxylase (D(beta)H), vesicular acetylcholine transporter (VAChT), somatostatin (SOM) or neuropeptyd Y (NPY) within nerve fibres supplying the immature mammary gland in the pig. Generally, a moderate number of the VIP-immunoreactive (VIP-IR) nerve fibres were located in the nipple and pare...

Although there is long-standing recognition that pest complexes require different management approaches than individual pests, relatively little research has explored how pests interact. In particular, little is known of how herbivorous insects and plant pathogens interact when sharing the same host plant. The soybean aphid, Aphis glycines Mastumura, a recently introduced pest of soybean in the...

use of the growth indices is a method to assessment of intercropping efficiency. in order to evaluation growth indices of soybean, sweet basil and borage in intercropping with different ratios, an experiment base on randomized complete block design was conducted with 9 treatments and 3 replications at north khorasan in 2011. treatments were consisted of the plants pure culture, replacement seri...

BACKGROUND Although nerve fibres are present in eutopic and ectopic endometrium, it is unclear whether they appear in ovarian endometriotic lesions. We investigated the presence of nerve fibres in ovarian endometriotic lesions and its correlation with clinical parameters in women with ovarian endometriosis. METHODS Histological sections of ovarian endometriotic lesions from 61 women with ovar...

Skinned fibres have advantages for comparing the muscle properties of different animal species because they can be prepared from a needle biopsy taken under field conditions. However, it is not clear how well the contractile properties of skinned fibres reflect the properties of the muscle fibres in vivo. Here, we compare the mechanical performance of intact fibre bundles and skinned fibres fro...

Sub-micron sized alumina fibres were fabricated by electrospinning and calcination of a polymer template fibre. In the calcination step, different controlled temperature heating cycles were conducted to obtain fibres of different crystalline structures. Their biodurabilities were tested at pH 7.4 with lung airway epithelial lining fluid or serum ultrafiltrate (SUF) and at pH 4.5 with macrophage...

In frog twitch muscle fibres, Na-octanoate (NaC8) shifted the relation between potassium induced tension and membrane potential to the right. The present study has been carried out to investigate the effect of this fatty acid on frog tonic fibres. Potassium contractures measured on bundles of 30-40 fibres of ileofibularis muscles were less decreased by NaC8 (2.5-10 mmol/l) than those of twitch ...

A number of studies have indicated that the relative toxicity of different fibre types after inhalation is related to their durability within lung tissue. The aim of this study was to assess the relative biopersistence of respirable para-aramid fibrils, chrysotile asbestos and code 100/475 glass fibres in rat lungs. The biopersistence of all three test fibres was measured by quantifying the cha...