Antonio Celani, 2 Emmanuel Villermaux, and Massimo Vergassola 4 Institut Pasteur, Research Unit “Physics of Biological Systems”, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France, and CNRS UMR 3525, 28 rue du docteur Roux, 75015 Paris, France The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Strada Costiera 11, I-34014 Trieste, Italy Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, IRPHE UMR 7...

J. C. Johannsen,1 G. Autès,2,3 A. Crepaldi,4 S. Moser,1 B. Casarin,4,5 F. Cilento,4 M. Zacchigna,6 H. Berger,1 A. Magrez,1 Ph. Bugnon,1 J. Avila,7 M. C. Asensio,7 F. Parmigiani,4,5,8 O. V. Yazyev,2,3 and M. Grioni1,* 1Institute of Condensed Matter Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland 2Institute of Theoretical Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédéra...

  Background :Adenosine is an endogenous purine nucleoside that has a neuromodulatory role in the central nervous system. The amphetamine derivative (±)-3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA or ecstasy) is a synthetic amphetamine analogue used recreationally to obtain an enhanced affiliated emotional response. MDMA is a potent monoaminergic neurotoxin with the potential of damage to brain neu...

-Methyl-3-(3,5-diiodo-4-carboxymethoxybenzyl)benzofuran (KB130015 or KB) is a new drug, structurally related to amiodarone and to thyroid hormones. Its effects on cardiac voltage-dependent Na+ current (I Na) were studied in pig single ventricular myocytes at 22 degrees C using the whole-cell (with [Na+]i = [Na+]o = 10 mM) and cell-attached patch-clamp techniques. KB markedly slowed I Na inactiv...

Bikas K. Chakrabarti, 2 Manipuspak Mitra, Anindya-Sundar Chakrabarti, and Arnab Chatterjee 1 Centre for Applied Mathematics and Computational Science and Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhannagar, Kolkata 700 064, India. Economic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata Centre, 203 Barrackpore Trunk Road, Kolkata 700108, India...