Data strongly suggestthat the longer patients have been treated in New Castle State Hospital, the higher the probability that they will demonstrate the low specific gravity syndrome. It is believed that a probably unrecognized alteration in human water metabolism among institutionalized patients who have chronic, severe epilepsy and who have been administered anticonvulsant drugs for many years...

There is considerable interest in understanding how the energy budget of an endotherm is modulated from a physiological and ecological point of view. In this paper, we used daily (24 h) heart rate (f(H24)), as a proxy of daily energy expenditure (DEE) across seasons, to test the effect of locomotion activity and water temperature on the energy budget of a large diving bird. f(H24) was monitored...

Due to its highly metalliferous waters and low pH, the Rio Tinto has shown its potential for modelling both acid mine drainage systems and biohydrometallurgical operations. Most geomicrobiological studies of these systems have focused on the oxic water column. A sequence-based approach in combination with in situ detection techniques enabled us to examine the composition and structure of the mi...

Marine Archaea are important players among microbial plankton and significantly contribute to biogeochemical cycles, but details regarding their community structure and long-term seasonal activity and dynamics remain largely unexplored. In this study, we monitored the interannual archaeal community composition of abundant and rare biospheres in northwestern Mediterranean Sea surface waters by p...

Nitrogen is one of the most important elements involved in ecosystem biogeochemical cycling. However, little known about characteristics nitrogen cycling during ice-covered period seasonally frozen lakes. In this study, shotgun metagenomic sequencing subglacial water and sediment from Lake Ulansuhai was performed to identify compare metabolism pathways microbes these pathways. total, ammonia as...

The fluctuations of the number, biomass and composition of the heterotrophic community were studied daily for two days, according to depth, pH, Eh, O2 and organic carbon concentration within a zone of the canal between the Coyuca de Benitez lagoon (Guerrero, Mexico) and the coastal waters. At the three moments of the day studied (6 am, 2 pm and 10 pm), the oxygen concentrations in the overlying...

The release of arginine vasopressin (AVP) and atrial natriuretic hormone (ANH) and their involvement in renal water and electrolyte metabolism in primary aldosteronism in humans were studied. An oral acute water load (20 ml/kg body weight) was given to each of 12 patients before and after surgical removal of their aldosterone-producing adenoma(s). Plasma AVP and ANH were measured simultaneously...