The work was created in the framework of the research project B141180000050.03 “Alcohol craving in alcohol-dependent people. Polish adaptation of measuring tools and their distribution” (“Odczuwanie głodu alkoholu przez osoby uzależnione. Polska adaptacja narzędzi pomiaru i ich upowszechnienie”), financed by the State Agency for the Prevention of Alcohol-Related Problems. Validation of the Poli...

The proposed digital system consists of several different modules that can be divided into three main groups: input modules, audio output modules, and video output modules. All of these modules will be clocked off a 27MHz clock signal provided by the 6.111 Labkit. The system’s input comes from an analog signal produced by a pedometer, and it is then processed by the input modules to produce rel...

Soma General Hospital, 142 Tsubogasaku, Niinuma, Soma, Fukushima 976-0011, Japan Research Group for Radiation and Biomolecular Science, Quantum Beam Science Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4 Shirakata-Shirane, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan *Corresponding Author: Soma General Hospital, 142 Tsubogasaku, Niinuma, Soma, Fukushima 976-0011, Japan. Tel: +81-244-36-5101; Fax: +81-244-35-5819; E...

The metabolism of CI-976, a potent inhibitor of liver and intestinal acyl coenzyme A:cholesterol acyltransferase, was investigated in isolated rat hepatocytes and Wistar rats after oral administration. The major metabolite observed both in vitro and in vivo was identified as the 6-carbon, chain-shortened 5,5-dimethyl-6-oxo-[(2,4,6-trimethoxyphenyl)amino]hexanoic acid (M-4). M-4 was determined t...

It is shown that the diluted thermodynamical limit of a self-gravitating system proposed by de Vega and Sánchez suffers from the same problems as the usual thermodynamical limit and leads to divergent thermodynamical functions. This question is also discussed from the point of view of mean field theory. PACS: 05.20.-y, 05.90.+m 05.70.-a ∗E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +34 976 761257 Fax...

AIMS Control of the enterotoxigenic Staphylococcus aureus CECT 976 strain by enterocin AS-48 in laboratory cultures, and behaviour of the AS-48 activity in the presence of food preservatives. METHODS AND RESULTS Enterocin AS-48 shows inhibitory activity on the majority of the Staphylococcus species tested. This enterocin has a bactericidal and bacteriolytic mode of action on S. aureus CECT 97...

Mosquito-borne diseases are among the most common public health problems in world, especially developing countries. The idea of evaluating certain agricultural and industrial waste products natural origin as larvicidal agents against mosquitoes is both good unconventional. Four extracts (Apricot kernels, Lipton packet tea, date palm burnt rice straw) one extract (cigarette filters) were evaluat...

Due to the potential importance of acyl-coenzyme A:cholesterol 0-acyltransferase (ACAT) in the generation of lipid-filled monocytes-macrophages, the ACAT inhibitor CI-976 (2,2dimethyl-AT-(2,4,6-trimethoxyphenyl)dodecanamide) was evaluated relative to selected lipidlowering agents for their effect on atherosclerotic lesion regression and progression. Atherosclerotic lesions comparable in composi...