In hypertension, membrane potassium permeability and vascular reactivity are increased. This study characterizes a potassium-selective channel and contractions to barium, a potassium channel inhibitor, in vascular smooth muscle (tail artery) from spontaneously hypertensive stroke-prone rats (SHRSP) and normotensive Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats. Smooth muscle cells were isolated by enzymatic digestio...

BACKGROUND A method of the classification of natural mineral and spring waters and maximum admissible concentration (MAC) levels of metals present in such types of waters are regulated by Commission Directive 2003/40/EC, Directive 2009/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Ordinance of Minister of Health of 30 March 2011 on the natural mineral waters, spring waters and potable...

Barium (Ba) with CAS number 513-77-9 and atomic number 56 is a soft silvery metallic alkaline earth metal. It has a high chemical reactivity and is never found in nature as a free element. It is highly toxic upon acute and chronic exposures (Bhoelan et al., 2014). Barium has been tested for its toxicity in different studies (Llugany et al., 2000; Langdon, 1994; Akinfieva and Gerasimova, 1984). ...

Barium ions enter chromaffin cells via voltage-sensitive calcium channels, although the intracellular site of barium action is distinct from that of calcium. The entry of barium primarily through voltage-sensitive channels was indicated by experiments showing inhibition of 133Ba2+ uptake by blockers of voltage-dependent calcium channels. In addition, 133Ba2+ uptake was stimulated by 50 mM KCl b...

Barium sulphate has been used as a gastrointestinal (GI) contrast agent for over 100 years. Since the first report of single contrast barium radiography in 1910, barium techniques have evolved in parallel with technical developments such as fluoroscopic image intensification. Double contrast techniques were first described in the 1920s but did not become mainstream until the 1960s and 1970s whe...

nowadays various methods are presented for synthesis of barium strontium titanate (bst) nanopowders with different morphology and properties. each of these (bst)s has got individual characterization that makes it suitable for a special application. every method has a special quality, causes it to have preference over the other methods. low processing temperature is a desired point which most of...

Nanoparticles of barium carbonate/oxalate have been synthesized in situ from barium nitrate and ammonium carbonate/oxalate by reverse micelle method. These particles were characterized using transmission electron microscope (TEM), fourier transform infrared (FTIR) and x-ray diffraction (XRD). The results indicate that rod-like barium carbonate (BaCO3) and spherical barium oxalate (BaC2O4) nanop...