The respiration of pear fruit (Pyrus communis L. Passe Crassane) cells was monitored after subculture into an auxin-free, mannitol-enriched medium in which the cells remained viable but did not grow. Respiration rates were affected by the presence or absence of sucrose in the medium even though the cells retained reserves of sucrose and starch. Provided the medium contained respirable carbohydr...

Patients with schizophrenia are known to be impaired in several areas of emotional processing, including psychophysiological reactivity. This study investigates the preliminary autonomic reactions and recognition of schizophrenic patients according to basic emotional conditions. The parameters such as electrodermal activity (Skin conductance response, skin conductance level), heart rat, and res...

Accompanying the paralysis produced by deprivation of vitamin E, the respiration of skeletal muscle is significantly accelerated. The activity of some tissue enzymes has also been shown to be altered, but none of these observations has as yet provided any basis for interpreting the physiological r61e of a-tocopherol. Although the excessive rate of respiration of muscle from dystrophic animals h...

Identification of genes causing variation in daytime and nighttime respiration rates could advance our understanding of the basic molecular processes of human respiratory rhythmogenesis. This could also serve an important clinical purpose, because dysfunction of such processes has been identified as critically important in sleep disorders. We performed a sib-pair-based linkage analysis on ambul...

Respiration rate is the respiratory signal or the respiratory knowledge. Numeral methods can be applied to derive a respiratory signal from the ECG. The efficacy of this monitoring can be improved by deriving respiration, which previously has been based on overnight polysomnography studies where patients are stationary or the use of multi lead ECG systems. In this paper, ECG features of Heart r...

Respiratory rates and patterns were studied in 23 patients with acute brain stem infarction using impedance pneumography. Autopsy was obtained in six of eight fatal cases. Pontine lesions were present in all patients, with coexistent infarction of midbrain in four and of medulla in nine. Respiratory rate and pattern abnormalities observed included Cheyne-Stokes respiration, Cheynb-Stokes varian...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Plant growth and respiration still has unresolved issues, examined here using a model. The aims of this work are to compare the model's predictions with McCree's observation-based respiration equation which led to the 'growth respiration/maintenance respiration paradigm' (GMRP) - this is required to give the model credibility; to clarify the nature of maintenance respiration...

During composting of household waste, the acidity of the material affects the process during the initial phase of rising temperature. In this study, the effects of temperature (36-46 degrees C) and pH (4.6-9.2) on the respiration rate during the early phase of composting were investigated in two different composts. A respiration method where small compost samples were incubated at constant temp...

Studies have indicated that the concentration of carbon dioxide [CO2] during the dark period may influence plant dry matter accumulation. It is often suggested that these effects on growth result from effects of [CO2] on rates of respiration, but responses of respiration to [CO2] remain controversial, and connections between changes in respiration rate and altered growth rate have not always be...

OBJECTIVE The growing consensus on the negative impact of cigarette smoking on fertility prompted us to compare the rate of sperm respiration in smokers and non-smokers. MATERIALS AND METHODS Semen samples from 20 smokers and 58 non-smokers consulting at the andrology laboratory for fertility evaluation were used. Smoking was defined as consumption of at least a half a pack per day. A phospho...