BACKGROUND Transient receptor potential C3 (TRPC3) has been demonstrated to be involved in the regulation of vascular tone through endothelial cell (EC) hyperpolarization and endothelium-dependent hyperpolarization-mediated vasodilation. However, the mechanism by which TRPC3 regulates these processes remains unresolved. We tested the hypothesis that endothelial receptor stimulation triggers rap...

Objectives Swas Kas Chintamani Ras (SKC) is an ayurvedic preparation indicated for respiratory diseases. Our study was aimed to determine the psychopharmacological and neurosafety profile of SKC. Materials and Methods Psychopharmacological effects and neurosafety profile of this drug were determined by nine complementary test methods namely, open field, locomotor activity, hole cross, hole bo...

The divergent sampling techniques for respirable dust and the analyses for crystalline silica are an important area of interest and discussion among industrial occupational hygienists in Europe. The variety of equipment for air sampling, methods and instrumentation can cause differences between results for the analysis of respirable crystalline silica (RCS). In this study, a Workplace Atmospher...

The Industrial Safety and Health Law in Japan established administrative levels for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in indoor air. In the present study, these 49 VOCs were extracted from the absorbents of commercial active samplers from Sibata Scientific Technology (carbon-bead active sampler), SKC Inc. (Anasorb CSC sorbent tube), and Gastec (bead-shaped activated carbon tube) using carbon di...

Aging is accompanied by endothelial dysfunction due to reduced bioavailability of nitric oxide (NO) and/or reduced endothelium-dependent hyperpolarizations (EDH). This study examines the hypothesis that hypertension aggravates the impairment of EDH-type relaxation due to aging. EDH-type relaxations were studied in superior mesenteric arteries isolated from Wistar Kyoto (WKY) and spontaneously h...

In this paper we study the asymptotic equivalence of a general linear system of 1-dimensional conservation laws and the corresponding relaxation model proposed by S. Jin and Z. Xin (1995, Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 48, 235 277) in the limit of small relaxation rate. The main interest is this asymptotic equivalence in the presence of physical boundaries. We identify and rigorously justify a necessar...

*Correspondence: [email protected] 3Faculty of Applied Sciences, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 313 Splaiul Independenţei, Bucharest, 060042, Romania Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Abstract Recently, Karapınar and Tas (Comput. Math. Appl. 61:3370-3380, 2011) extended the class of Suzuki-generalized nonexpansive mappings to the class of SKC mapping...

Streptococcus uberis is one of the most important mastitis-causing pathogens. Although pathogenesis and virulence factors required for intramammary infection development are not yet well established, several putative virulence-associated genes have been described. This work aimed to investigate presence ten known in S. isolated from subclinical or clinical mastitis its closely related species p...

Adsorbent tube samples are collected by drawing workplace air through either coconut shell charcoal or Anasorb 747 tubes with personal sampling pumps. Diffusive samples are collected by exposing either 3M 3520 Organic Vapor Monitors (OVMs) or SKC 575-002 Passive Samplers to workplace air. Samples are desorbed with 60/40 (v/v) N,N-dimethylformamide/carbon disulfide (DMF/CS2) and analyzed by gas ...