In previous studies, we have shown that mouse RAW 264.7 macrophages possess pyrimidinoceptors, coupled to a phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C, with a higher specificity for UTP than for ATP. In the current study, we explored the mechanism involved in the UTP-induced intracellular acidification seen in this cell line. UTP (30 microM) caused a reversible pHi decrease of 0.16 +/- 0.01 unit...

Fast and reliable estimation of image derivatives is among the most fundamental tasks of low level image processing. Implicit finite differences offer much higher spectral resolving efficiency compared to explicit finite differences while the computational effort increases only slightly. Although implicit finite differences had become known to a general audience of numerical mathematicians and ...

An efficient protocol for post-functionalization of organo-imido polyoxometalates is developed via creating a remote tertiary “N” atom over the surface of organo-imido hexamolybdates and subsequently post-functionalizing it with the help of allyl or alkyl halides to afford stoichiometric, “in situ” crystalline products at moderate temperatures. The parent organo-imido product 2 and post-functio...

Microbial protein synthesis in the rumen would be optimized when dietary carbohydrates and proteins have synchronized rates and extent of degradation. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of varying ruminal degradation rate of energy and nitrogen sources on intake, nitrogen balance, microbial protein yield, and kinetics of nutrients in the rumen of growing kids. Eight Boer goats (38...

above. For example, does each carbon atom of the ring in phenol lack one electron of filling its eight "possible electron positions" or do three of the carbon atoms lack two electrons each while the remaining three carbon atoms have all their "possible electron positions" filled, or is there some other combination? In conclusion, the main purpose of presenting this detailed scale model of the b...

We present a method for estimating intrinsic images from a fixed-viewpoint image sequence captured under changing illumination directions. Previous work on this problem reduces the influence of shadows on reflectance images, but does not address shading effects which can significantly degrade reflectance image estimation under the typically biased sampling of illumination directions. In this pa...

Surface modification of nanocrystalline TiO(2) particles (45 A) with bidentate benzene derivatives (catechol, pyrogallol, and gallic acid) was found to alter optical properties of nanoparticles. The formation of the inner-sphere charge-transfer complexes results in a red shift of the semiconductor absorption compared to unmodified nanocrystallites. The binding structures were investigated by us...

We address the problem of egomotion estimation of a monocular observer moving with arbitrary translation and rotation in an unknown environment, using log-polar images. The method we propose is uniquely based on the spatio-temporal image derivatives, or the normal ow. Thus, we avoid computing the complete optical ow eld, which is an ill-posed problem due to the aperture problem. We use a search...

Silanes, Silylbenzenes, Di(silyl)benzenes. Bromo(silyl)benzenes 1,2-Di(silyl)benzene (3). has been prepared in a three-step process starting with the reac­ tion of 1 ,2-dibromobenzene and /?-tolyl(chloro)silane with magnesium in tetrahydrofuran, which affords l,2-bis(p-tolylsilyl)benzene (1) as a stable high-yield intermediate. Compound 1 has been converted into 1 .2-bis(trifluoromethanesulfona...