We classify up to multiplier equivalence optimal (v, 3, 1) binary cyclically permutable constant weight (CPCW) codes with v ≤ 61. There is a one-to-one correspondence between optimal (v, 3, 1) CPCW codes, optimal cyclic binary constant weight codes with weight 3 and minimal distance 4, (v, 3; b(v − 1)/6c) difference packings, and optimal (v, 3, 1) optical orthogonal codes. Therefore the classif...

Endothelial cells (ECs) are constantly subjected to cyclic strain that arises from periodic change in vessel wall diameter as a result of pulsatile blood flow. Application of physiological levels of cyclic strain inhibits EC apoptosis; however, the underlying mechanism is not known. Since heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) is a potent inhibitor of apoptosis, the present study investigated whether HO-1 con...

The selective discharge of lysosome granule enzymes from human neutrophils by certain immunologic stimuli can be influenced in opposing directions by guanosine 3', 5'-monophosphate (cyclic GMP) 1 and adenosine 3', 5'-monophosphate (cyclic AMP) (1-3). Similarly, the immunologic secretion of lysosomal enzymes can be enhanced or inhibited by specific autonomic neurohormones (1-3). In fact, certain...

1. A protein was demonstrated in mammalian islets of Langerhans that after purification appeared as a single component possessing both cyclic-AMP (adenosine 3':5'-cyclic monophosphate)-binding and cyclic-AMP-dependent protein phosphokinase activities. 2. The protein had an intrinsic association constant for cyclic AMP of 1.15x10(-8)m, which was similar to the K(m) for cyclic AMP (1.11x10(-8)m) ...

Plasma cyclic AMP levels were determined during a 40 minute secretin infusion (1 Cl.U kg-1h-1) followed by a 40 minute combined secretin (1 Cl.U kg-1h-1) caerulein (75 ng kg-1h-1) infusion. In nine healthy subjects, both secretin alone and secretin in combination with caerulein did not affect plasma cyclic AMP levels. The same was observed in six patients with chronic pancreatitis. By contrast,...

A new cyclic diarylheptanoid namely alnuheptanoid B (3), along with four known cyclic diarylheptanoids: myricanone (1), (+)-S-myricanol (2), myricanone 5-O--D-glucopyranoside (4), and (+)-S-myricanol 5-O--D-glucopyranoside (5) were isolated from the EtOAc fraction of Alnus japonica Steud (family: Betulaceae) stem bark. Their structures were established by different spectroscopic analyses, as ...

1. The involvement of intracellular 3':5'-cyclic AMP in the inhibition of platelet aggregation by prostaglandin E(1), isoprenaline and adenosine has been examined by a radiochemical technique. Platelet-rich plasma was incubated with radioactive adenine to incorporate (14)C radioactivity into platelet nucleotides. Pairs of identically treated samples were taken, one for the photometric measureme...

We investigated the roles of cyclic GMP and cyclic AMP in the inhibition of rabbit platelet aggregation and degranulation by two nitrovasodilators, sodium nitroprusside (SNP) and 3-morpholinosydnonimine (SIN-1; the active metabolite of molsidomine), with particular reference to the synergistic interaction of these drugs with prostaglandin E1 (PGE1). Changes in platelet cyclic [3H]GMP and cyclic...

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We mainly investigate the structures of skew cyclic and skew quasicyclic codes of arbitrary length over Galois rings. Similar to [5], our results show that the skew cyclic codes are equivalent to either cyclic and quasi-cyclic codes over Galois rings. Moreover, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for skew cyclic codes over Galois rings to be free. A sufficient condition for 1-generator...