To explore the role of oxytocin in the regulation of salt appetite and blood pressure, we conducted studies in oxytocin gene-knockout mice and determined (1) blood pressure and heart rate during day and night periods, (2) salt appetite after iso-osmotic volume depletion, and (3) salt appetite and blood pressure after central injection of angiotensin II. Long-term arterial catheters were inserte...

This study provides insights into the experience gained from investigating thermodynamic behavior of well and reservoir fluids during acid gas injection (AGI) in a hydrocarbon field to enhance oil recovery (EOR) reduce greenhouse emissions. Unlike conventional water natural injection, AGI involves complicated phase changes physical property variations at various pressure-temperature (P-T) condi...

In this study, four different biodiesel fuels obtained from corn oil, safflower-rapeseed oil mixture (50%-50% v/v), waste chicken fat, and fleshing were tested in a six-cylinder, water-cooled, TDI diesel engine. Vegetable animal fat origin fuels’ effects on the performance, injection, combustion emission characteristics of test engine compared with each other petroleum-based fuel as reference f...

Seizing the main contradiction of fast water-bearing rebound in western block III, analyzing reasons response to contradiction, meanwhile, by understanding mechanism polymer oil drive and combining development effect three injection gathering blocks, finding out that problem slowing down is establishment pressure system, therefore corresponding management measures at extraction ends respectively.

Water deprivation is associated with regional increases in sympathetic tone, but whether this is mediated by changes in brain stem regulation of sympathetic activity is unknown. Therefore, this study tested the hypothesis that water deprivation increases excitatory amino acid (EAA) drive of the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM), by determining whether bilateral microinjection of kynurenate (...

Hysteresis in the saturation versus capillary pressure curves of neutrally wettable fibrous media was simulated with a random pore network model using a Voronoi diagram approach. The network was calibrated to fit experimental air-water capillary pressure data collected for carbon fibre paper commonly used as a gas diffusion layer in fuel cells. These materials exhibit unusually strong capillary...