This study outlines the production of an electrically conductive clay-based composite containing halloysite as clay mineral and poly(o-toluidine) (POT) a filler. In study, POT/halloysite was obtained by in situ oxidative polymerization o-toluidine using ammonium persulphate (APS) oxidant between layers. By changing conditions such time, concentration, APS, concentration HCl solution used reacti...

The human mitochondrial cytochrome P450 enzymes CYP11A1, CYP11B1, and CYP11B2 are involved in the biosynthesis of steroid hormones.CYP11A1 catalyzes the side-chain cleavageof cholesterol, and CYP11B1 and CYP11B2 catalyze the final steps in the biosynthesis of glucoand mineralocorticoids, respectively. This study reveals their additional capability tometabolize the xenobiotic steroid oral turina...

Central oxytocin (OT) administration reduces food intake and its effects are mediated, in part, by hindbrain oxytocin receptor (OT-R) signaling. The neural substrate and mechanisms mediating the intake inhibitory effects of hindbrain OT-R signaling are undefined. We examined the hypothesis that hindbrain OT-R-mediated feeding inhibition results from an interaction between medial nucleus tractus...

The present work is focused on developing a description of an anisotropic microheterogeneous medium, exploiting the dynamics of a guest molecule. The medium in question is the lamellar structures formed in the aqueous layer of ternary mixtures containing aerosol OT (AOT), water and n-heptane. The guest used in this study is the fluorescent probe, coumarin 153 (C153). The dynamics of this molecu...

THE HORMONES PROLACTIN (PRL) and oxytocin (OT) are functionally linked to regulate processes in and beyond reproduction. Both hormones are released into the circulation in response to orgasm, mating, nursing, stress, and osmotic stimulation to regulate reproductive behavior, pregnancy, lactation, stress-related responses, and fluid and electrolyte homeostasis (3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 13). Notably, PRL ...

PREFACE The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 65, California Health and Safety Code 25249.5 et seq.) requires that the Governor cause to be published a list of those chemicals " known to the state " to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity. The Act specifies that " a chemical is known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity...if in the opinion of t...