BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Adenosine A(3) receptors mediate beneficial effects in experimental colitis, but their involvement in enteric neuromuscular functions during bowel inflammation is undetermined. This study investigated the regulatory role of A(3) receptors on colonic motility in the presence of experimental colitis. EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH Colitis was induced in rats by 2,4-dinitrobenzenes...

RésuméLes changements au CodeInternational de Nomenclature Botanique sont décidés tous les 6 ans aux Sections de Nomenclature associées aux Congrès Internationaux de Botanique (CIB). Le XVIII(e) CIB se tenait à Melbourne, Australie; la Section de Nomenclature s'est réunie les 18-22 juillet 2011 et ses décisions ont été acceptées par le Congrès en session plénière le 30 juillet. Suite à cette ré...

Nick Wierckx,1 M. Auxiliadora Prieto,2 Pablo Pomposiello,3 Victor de Lorenzo,4 Kevin O’Connor5,6 and Lars M. Blank1* Institute of Applied Microbiology – iAMB, Aachen Biology and Biotechnology – ABBt, RWTH Aachen University, Worringerweg 1, Aachen 52074, Germany. Biological Research Center, The Spanish National Research Council (CIB-CSIC), C/ Ramiro de Maeztu, 9, Madrid 28040, Spain. Bacmine, Ca...

This paper presents the first truly 'blind' test of a CFD model used for the prediction of fire conditions in an enclosure. This test formed part of an auditable 'round robin' test of models conducted by CIB W14, sub group 2. The paper demonstrates that CFD models containing the same sub-models as those used in JASMINE are fit for the purpose of predicting gas phase conditions to better than 15...

Abstract Background Linking qualitative scenarios with quantitative models is a common approach to integrate assumptions on possible future societal contexts into modeling. But reflection how and what degree knowledge effectively integrated during this endeavor does not generally take place. In paper, we reflect the performance of specific hybrid scenario (qualitative Cross-Impact Balance analy...

We constrain the evolution of the rest-frame far-infrared (FIR) luminosity function out to high redshift, by combining several pieces of complementary information provided by the deep Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope surveys at 250, 350 and 500μm, as well as other FIR and millimetre data. Unlike most other phenomenological models, we characterize the uncertainties in our fit...

Studying early interaction is essential for understanding development and psychopathology. Automatic computational methods offer the possibility to analyse social signals and behaviours of several partners simultaneously and dynamically. Here, 20 dyads of mothers and their 13-36-month-old infants were videotaped during mother-infant interaction including 10 extremely high-risk and 10 low-risk d...

We conduct a pseudo-$C_\ell$ analysis of the tomographic cross-correlation between 1000 deg$^2$ weak lensing data from Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-1000) and thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect measured by Planck Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). Using HMx, halo-model-based approach that consistently models gas, star, dark matter components, we are able to derive constraints on both cosmology b...

Alkylbenzenes, such as toluene and m-xylene, are an important class of contaminant hydrocarbons that are widespread and tend to accumulate in subsurface anoxic environments. The peripheral pathway for the anaerobic oxidation of toluene in bacteria consists of an initial activation catalyzed by a benzylsuccinate synthase (encoded by bss genes), and a subsequent modified β-oxidation of benzylsucc...