Objective(s): In the present study the effect of stress on monkeys that had learned to retrieve food from a five-chamber receptacle, as well as the relationship between their behavior and the serum cortisol and epinephrine levels and relative size of the amygdala was evaluated. Materials and Methods: Six male rhesus monkeys were individually given access to the food reward orderly. They could e...

The combination of graphene and nickel oxide nanoparticles yields nanostructured electrochemical sensor formed a novel kind of structurally uniform and electrocatalytic activity material. In cyclic voltammetry studies, in the presence of epinephrine, nickel oxide / graphene  composite modified electrode shows a significantly higher current response for epinephrine oxidation. Based on differenti...

Flow injection amperometric quantification of ascorbic acid (AA), dopamine (DA), epinephrine (EP) and dipyrone (DI) in mixtures (in the microgram g-1 range) was successfully performed by using an array of microelectrodes with units modified by the electrodeposition of different noble metals, together with multivariate calibration analysis. The four groups of microelectrodes utilized included a ...

Epinephrine (Epi) increases lymphocyte traffic to lung. We investigated whether Epi also modulates pulmonary cell-mediated immune responses in vivo. C57BL/6 mice were immunized with hen-egg lysozyme (HEL) on day 0, challenged with HEL intratracheally at day 12, and killed at day 15. Mice received Epi (0.5 mg/kg) subcutaneously during the sensitization phase, days 1-7 (Epi-SP), or the effector p...

The rate of the spontaneous activity of cultured cells from the chick embryonic ventricle was only slightly increased by norepinephrine (NE) or epinephrine (EP), even if it was applied close to the cell. On the other hand, the amplitude of contraction, measured from the shortening of the diameter of the cell aggregate, was clearly augmented by up to 50%. Intracellularly injected cAMP also poten...

Shen-Fu injection (SFI) derived from the ancient traditional Chinese medicine. In this study, the effects of SFI on the expression of T-bet/GATA-3 and its potential mechanisms causing the shift of T cells from Th2 to Th1 on postresuscitation lung injury were examined in a porcine model of cardiac arrest. 30 pigs were randomly divided into SHAM (n = 6) and three return of spontaneous circulation...

Background. Shen-Fu injection (SFI) following cardiac arrest exhibits neurological effects, but its effect on neurological dysfunction is unclear. This study sought to investigate the protective effect of SFI on nerve cells in a porcine model of cardiac arrest. Methods. After eight minutes of untreated ventricular fibrillation (VF) and 2 minutes of basic life support, 24 pigs were randomized an...

This paper presents refinements to the execution-cache-memory performance model and a previously published power model for multicore processors. The combination of both enables a very accurate prediction of performance and energy consumption of contemporary multicore processors as a function of relevant parameters such as number of active cores as well as core and Uncore frequencies. Model vali...

Objective(s): In this study, we desvcribe a simple eco-friendly approach for the synthesis of a potent, stable and benign silver nanoparticles to carry and deliver chalcones and dihydrochalcones present in a methanol extract of Eysenhardtia polystachya (EP). Materials and Methods: In this process silver nanoparticles carring EP compounds (EP/AgNPs) are synthesized in a single step by eliminatin...