We study copper corrosion inhibition by ethanolamine (ETA)with (0, 0.2 ,0.3,0.4,0.5) vol.% concentrations in 100 ppm NaCl solution. This work is carried out by potentiodynamic measurements and Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS). The substrates' surface morphologies are examined by Scanning Electron Microscopy (...

Background: Recent research has provided evidences indicating the importance of endothelin axis in carcinogenesis. According to our knowledge, there are little information about endothelin A receptor (ETA) expression in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). So, the aim of the present study was to evaluate the immunohistochemical expression of ETA in OSCC and normal oral mucosa (...

Lycium barbarum, a traditional Chinese anti-aging herb, has been shown to protect retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) in a rat chronic ocular hypertension (COH) model. Here, we investigated the expression of endothelin-1 (ET-1), a strong vasoconstrictor, and its receptors, ETA and ETB, in the COH model and assessed the effects of Lycium barbarum on the ET-1 axis. Elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) w...

Protein kinase C (PKC) plays a crucial role(s) in regulation of growth and differentiation of cells. In the present study, we examined possible roles of the alpha, delta, eta, and zeta isoforms of PKC in squamous differentiation by overexpressing these genes in normal human keratinocytes. Because of the difficulty of introducing foreign genes into keratinocytes, we used an adenovirus vector sys...

1. In the present study, we have pharmacologically characterized two novel mixed endothelin ETA/ETB receptor antagonists, namely BQ-928 and BQ-238, in ETA and ETB preparations, the rabbit carotid artery (RbCA) and the rabbit pulmonary artery (RbPA), respectively. These two antagonists were compared to established ETA (BQ-123 and BMS 182874), ETB (BQ-788) and mixed ETA/ETB (SB 209670) receptor a...

Hydrocortisone treatment of chick embryos caused acceleration of epidermis thickening and keratinization, decrease in dermal cell number and increase of dermal collagenous fibres. The hormone also caused a marked increase of some protein fractions with low mobility and also decreased acid and alkaline phosphatase activity. INTRODUCTION Avian skin was described in detail (Fell, 1962; Mottet and ...

We study the eta invariants of compact flat spin manifolds of dimension n with holonomy group Zp, where p is an odd prime. We find explicit expressions for the twisted and relative eta invariants and show that the reduced eta invariant is always an integer, except in a single case, when p = n = 3. We use the expressions obtained to show that any such manifold is trivial in the appropriate reduc...

The meson family of $\eta$ pseudoscalars is studied in the context AdS/QCD correspondence and differential configurational entropy (DCE). For it, two forms configurational-entropic Regge-like trajectories are engendered, relating mesonic states excitation number to both their experimental mass spectrum Particle Data Group (PDG) DCE as well. Hence, pseudoscalar states, beyond already detected $\...