Mammals feel thirsty or develop an appetite for salt when the correct balance between water and sodium in the body fluid has been disrupted, but little is known about the mechanism in the brain that controls salt homeostasis. It has been postulated that the existence of both an osmoreceptor and a specific sodium receptor is required to accommodate the experimental data (Johnson and Edwards, 199...

Supporting Information S4 Fig. Immunohistochemical staining of rat and mouse brains with anti-Nax antibodies. Immunohistochemical staining of the coronal sections of rat and mouse brains, containing the median preoptic nucleus (MnPO) (A) and median eminence (B) with anti-rat Nax [12] and anti-mNax antibodies. Immunohistochemical staining was performed as described in S5 File. Neither rat nor mo...

This paper revisits the problem of the string decay contribution to the axion cosmological energy density. We show that this contribution is proportional to the average relative increase when axion strings decay of a certain quantity Nax which we define. We carry out numerical simulations of the evolution and decay of circular and non-circular string loops, of bent strings with ends held fixed,...

Hippocampal oscillations recorded under urethane anesthesia are proposed to be modulated by anxiolytics. All classes of clinically effective anxiolytics were reported to decrease the frequency of urethane theta; however, recent findings raise concerns about the direct correlation of anxiolysis and the frequency of hippocampal theta. Here, we took advantage of our two inbred mouse strains displa...

The sorption of mercury vapor by adsorbed sulfur in the zeolites CaA (=5A) and NaX (= 13X) and two types of active carbon has been measured at a temperature of 50°C. With increasing degree of micropore filling by sulfur the fraction of sulfur accessible to mercury atoms decreased for CaA and NaX. The sulfur chemisorbed on carbon (only less than 0.05 g sulfur per g) is not very active for mercur...

Zeolite (NaX, NaX-CeO2) and mixed oxide (Co4MnAl, NiMgMn) catalysts were tested in catalytic oxidation of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The different kinds of catalysts proved remarkable activity in catalytic oxidation of ethanol and isopropanol respectively. The deepen comparison revealed that basic zeolite NaX-CeO2 is more suitable for oxidation of isopropanol while oxidation of ethanol ...

We report on the study of many-body interactions in a single high-quality V-shaped quantum wire by means of continuous and time-resolved microphotoluminescence. The transition from a weakly interacting exciton gas when the carrier density n is less than 10 cm ~i.e., naX,0.1, with aX the exciton Bohr radius! to a dense electron-hole plasma (n.10 cm, i.e., naX.1) is systematically followed in the...

We employ high-temperature molecular dynamics to investigate self-transport and cooperative transport of benzene in NaX (Si:Al ) 1.2). We have refined the benzene-NaX force field for use with our previously developed framework force field for aluminosilicates, which explicitly distinguishes between Si and Al atoms in the frame, and also between oxygen atoms in Si-O-Si and Si-O-Al environments. ...

Controlled nanozeolite deposits are prepared by electrochemical techniques on a macroporous carbon support and binderless thin film electrodes of zeolite-templated carbon are synthesized using the deposits as templates. The obtained film electrodes exhibit extremely high area capacitance (10-12 mF cm(-2)) and ultrahigh rate capability in a thin film capacitor.

The Acp2 gene encodes the beta subunit of lysosomal acid phosphatase, which is an isoenzyme that hydrolyzes orthophosphoric monoesters. In mice, a spontaneous mutation in Acp2 results in severe cerebellar defects. These include a reduced size, abnormal lobulation, and an apparent anterior cerebellar disorder with an absent or hypoplastic vermis. Based on differential gene expression in the cere...