Three different levels of hyperchloremia were induced in healthy Friesian calves to study the effects of chloride on blood oxygen transport. By infusion, the calves received either 5 ml/kg of 0.9% NaCl (low-level hyperchloremia; group A), 5 ml/kg of 7.5% NaCl (moderate hyperchloremia; group B), or 7.5 ml/kg of 7.5% NaCl (high-level hyperchloremia; group C). Blood was sampled from the jugular ve...

Cellular transplantation, including olfactory ensheathing cells (OEC) and olfactory nerve fibroblasts (ONF), after experimental spinal cord injury in the rat has previously resulted in regrowth of severed corticospinal (CS) axons across small lesion gaps and partial functional recovery. In order to stimulate CS axon regrowth across large lesion gaps, we used a multifactorial transplantation str...

High-performance osmotic energy conversion (OEC) with a perm-selective porous membrane requires both high ionic selectivity and permeability simultaneously. Here hydrodynamic slip is considered on the surfaces of nanopores to break trade-off between permeability, because it decreases viscous friction at solid–liquid interfaces which can promote diffusion during OEC. Taking advantage simulations...

Oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is a bottleneck to photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting; however, there remains an impressive challenge for intrinsic charge transport the development of integrated photoanodes. Herein, covalent triazine frameworks as conjugated molecules are grafted on surfaces ferroelectric BaTiO3−x (CTF/BTO) nanorod array, and then oxyhydroxide oxygen cocatalyst (OEC) co...

An online evolving clustering (OEC) method equivalent to ensemble modeling is proposed tackle prognostics problems of learning and the prediction remaining useful life (RUL). During phase, OEC extracts predominant operating modes as multiple clusters (EC). Each EC associated with its own Weibull distribution-inspired degradation (survivability) model that will receive incremental modifications ...

BACKGROUND Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is associated with tumor hypoxia. EMT is regulated, in part, by the action of TWIST, which inhibits of E-cadherin expression and may interfere with the p53 tumor-suppressor pathway. METHODS We examined the expression of TWIST, E-cadherin, hypoxia-inducible factor 1α (HIF1α), and p53 by immunohistochemistry in 123 cases of ovarian epithelial c...

OBJECTIVE This study was to investigate the efficacy of olfactory ensheathing cell (OEC) transplantation on experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). METHODS EAE models were established by guinea pig spinal cord homogenate (GPSCH) immunization in Lewis rats. OECs were purified and cultured from the olfactory nerve layer of SD rats, and then transplanted to the EAE models through the ve...

The oxygen-evolving complex (OEC) in photosystem II (PS II) was studied in the S0 through S3 states using 1s2p resonant inelastic X-ray scattering spectroscopy. The spectral changes of the OEC during the S-state transitions are subtle, indicating that the electrons are strongly delocalized throughout the cluster. The result suggests that, in addition to the Mn ions, ligands are also playing an ...

In photosynthesis, photosystem II evolves oxygen from water by the accumulation of photooxidizing equivalents at the oxygen-evolving complex (OEC). The OEC is a Mn4CaO5 cluster, and its sequentially oxidized states are termed the Sn states. The dark-stable state is S1, and oxygen is released during the transition from S3 to S0. In this study, a laser flash induces the S1 to S2 transition, which...

Effect of co-culture of buffalo preantral follicles with different somatic cells, i.e. cumulus cells, granulosa cells, Ovarian Mesenchymal Cells (OMC) and Oviductal Epithelial Cells (OEC) was studied. Large preantral follicles were isolated by microdissecting the trypsin (1%) digested ovarian cortical slices. Cumulus cells were isolated by repeated pipetting of oocytes, granulosa cells were iso...