Calcium chloride supplements such as gels and drench were studied to determine their effectiveness for increasing blood serum Ca concentrations in periparturient dairy cows. Multiparous, pregnant Holstein dairy cows (n = 36) were assigned to one of four treatments. After calving, cows in four treatments received basal diet and two doses of either control inert gel (CON), gel containing CaCl2 an...

This collaborative effort to compare the world’s leading gas hydrate reservoir simulators is designed primarily to exchange information and insight that will lead to the improvement in simulation capability of experimental and naturally occurring gas hydrate accumulations. The initial phase of the code comparison activity achieved the simulation of five problems of increasing complexity by five...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: LPP: Leak Point Pressure; DLPP: Detrusor Leak Point Pressure; ALPP: Abdominal Leak Point Pressure; SLPP: Stress Leak Point Pressure; VLPP: Valsalva Leak Point Pressure; CLPP: Cough Leak Point Pressure; SUI: Stress Urinary Incontinence; UDS: Urodynamic Study; ISD: Intrinsic Sphincter Dysfunction; IUS: Internal Urethral Sphincter, EUS: ...

Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Feng Wu, Nicholas R. Jennings Agents, Interaction, and Complexity Group University of Southampton Southampton, UK [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Wenchao Jiang, Joel Fischer, Chris Greenhalgh, Tom Rodden Mixed Reality Lab University of Nottingham Nottingham, UK [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]...

In this paper, the feasibility of a Control Moment Gyroscope (CMG) as balance assistance device is investigated. An inverted pendulum is used as experimental set-up. Our initial results show that it is possible to maintain balance within a 4 degrees range from vertical.

Objective We developed mice with a cardiomyocyte-specific ablation of the cGKI gene (CMG-KO) and tested whether protection against reperfusion injury by ischemic postconditioning (IPost), soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC) activation, the adenosine A2B receptor (A2BAR), or the mitochondria-targeted S-nitrosothiol (MitoSNO) was affected. MitoSNO accumulates within mitochondria, driven by the membran...

BACKGROUND Cimetidine, refereed as antiandrogenic drug, causes hormonal changes in male patients such as increased testosterone and FSH levels. In the rat testis, structural alterations in the seminiferous tubules have been related to germ cell loss and Sertoli cell death by apoptosis. Regarding the important role of Sertoli cells in the conversion of testosterone into estrogen, via aromatase, ...

Combing chemotherapy with gene therapy has been one of the most promising strategies for the treatment of cancer. The noninvasive MRI with superparamagnetic iron oxide (SPIO) as contrast agent is one of the most effecitve techniques for evaluating the antitumor therapy. However, to construct a single system that can deliver efficiently gene, drug and SPIO to the cancer site remains a challenge....

DNA replication in eukaryotic cells is tightly regulated to ensure that each origin fires just once. Activation of the replicative DNA helicase (Mcm2–7) during S phase requires the recruitment of Cdc45 and GINS into a CMG complex [1]. In yeast, this step proceeds via the formation of a transient intermediate, the preinitiation complex. The pre-initiation complex contains, in addition to the CMG...