introduction climate is a system consisting of atmosphere, lithosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere. this system is involved in the exchange of energy and moisture among these five components. the exchanges link the atmosphere as the central component of the climate to other spheres. changes do not occur separately in this system; rather change in one component contributes to reactio...

We have studied the contribution of P-type voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels to both catacholamine (CA) and ATP secretion from bovine chromaffin cells induced by high K+ or nicotine using omega-agatoxin IVA, a selective blocker of P-type voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels. We found that high K+ (75 mM) induced the release of about 13% of norepinephrine, 5% epinephrine and 11% ATP, and that omega-aga...

STAT-3 and STAT-1 signaling have opposite effects in oncogenesis with STAT-3 acting as an oncogene and STAT-1 exerting anti-oncogenic activities through interferon-γ and interferon-α. The cytokine IL-6 promotes oncogenesis by stimulation of NFκB and STAT-3 signaling. Curcuminoids have bi-functional effects by blocking NFκB anti-apoptotic signaling but also blocking anti-oncogenic STAT-1 signali...

In this paper, the performance of the extra stage Omega (ESO) networks based on wavelength division with limited number of buffers and wavelength converters was analyzed. Since the ESO networks suffer from the problem of internal blocking, therefore, the goal is to minimize the dropping probability by utilizing the available buffers and wavelength converters in the central controller of these n...

a watching system in a graph $g=(v, e)$ is a set $w={omega_{1}, omega_{2}, cdots, omega_{k}}$, where $omega_{i}=(v_{i}, z_{i}), v_{i}in v$ and $z_{i}$ is a subset of closed neighborhood of $v_{i}$ such that the sets $l_{w}(v)={omega_{i}: vin omega_{i}}$ are non-empty and distinct, for any $vin v$. in this paper, we study the watching systems of line graph $k_{n}$ which is called triangular grap...

Atherosclerosis prevention and treatment remain of great concern in the field of cardiovascular medicine. Altering inflammatory component of atherogenesis has been hypothesized to be beneficial, and thus searching for new antiinflammatory compounds for cardiovascular disease is warranted. Recent discovery of new lipid mediators, which are generated from essential omega-3 fatty acids, represent ...

To study the type of presynaptic calcium channels controlling transmitter release at synaptic connections displaying depression or facilitation, dual whole cell recordings combined with biocytin labelling were performed in acute slices from motor cortex of 17- to 22-day-old rats. Layer V postsynaptic interneurons displayed either fast spiking (FS) (n = 12) or burst firing (BF) (n = 12) behaviou...