We assessed the clinical and pharmacological profile of the orally active V(1) vascular vasopressin (AVP) receptor nonpeptide antagonist SR49059 (SR) during the osmotic stimulation of AVP release in hypertensive patients. In a double-blind crossover-versus-placebo study, 24 untreated stage I or II essential hypertensive patients (12 whites and 12 blacks) received a single 300 mg oral dose of SR...

OBJECTIVE We determined the physiological consequences of adrenocortical-specific deletion of scavenger receptor BI (SR-BI) function in C57BL/6 wild-type mice. METHODS AND RESULTS One adrenal from 10-day-old SR-BI knockout (KO) mice or wild-type controls was transplanted under the renal capsule of adrenalectomized C57BL/6 recipient mice. The fasting plasma corticosterone level increased over ...

This study investigates the relationship between the high density lipoprotein (HDL) receptor (scavenger receptors, SR-BI and SR-BII), selective lipoprotein-cholesteryl ester uptake, and testosterone production in Leydig cells of control, hypocholesterolemic and gonadotrophic hormone (hCG) treated rats. Leydig cells from mature control rats show poor efficiency in incorporation of labeled HDL-ch...

One-electron reduction of the synthetic tetramers [FemSa(SR)~] 2(R CHgPh, Ph), by chemical and electrochemical methods affords the corres~ofiding-trianions. ~The collective results from optical, electron paramagnetic resonance, and M~ssbauer spectroscopy, when compared to available data for reduced 4-Fe and 8-Fe ferredoxi~ proteins and super-reduced Chromatium high-potential protein, reveal tha...

Digital rights management (DRM) of depth-image-based rendering (DIBR) 3D video is an emerging area research. Existing schemes for DIBR cause distortions, are vulnerable to severe signal and geometric attacks, cannot protect 2D frames depth maps independently, or have difficulty handling large-scale videos. To address these issues, a novel zero-watermark scheme based on invariant features simila...

The objective of this study is to develop a unique data mining framework for the structural comparison and classification of proteins, by representing each of them in terms of a pair of secondary structure geometric descriptor distributions. In this thesis, we propose novel geometric parameters based on a comparison protocol that uses a previously unexplored pair of dihedral angles for the simi...

Although cellular uptake of vitamin E was initially described as a passive process, recent studies in the liver and brain have shown that SR-BI (scavenger receptor class B type I) is involved in this phenomenon. As SR-BI is expressed at high levels in the intestine, the present study addressed the involvement of SR-BI in vitamin E trafficking across enterocytes. Apical uptake and efflux of the ...

Multiple changes in HDL metabolism occur during infection and inflammation that could potentially impair the antiatherogenic functions of HDL. Scavenger receptor class B type I (SR-BI) promotes cholesterol efflux from peripheral cells and mediates selective uptake of cholesteryl ester into hepatocytes, thereby playing a pivotal role in reverse cholesterol transport. We studied the effect of end...

We present a novel stereo image denoising algorithm. Our algorithm takes as an input a pair of noisy images of an object captured form two different directions. We use the structural similarity index as a similarity metric for identifying locations of similar patches in the input images. We adapt the Non-Local Means algorithm for denoising collected patches from the input images. We validate ou...