De Matteo, R., and C. N. May. Glucocorticoid-induced renal vasodilatation is mediated by a direct renal action involving nitric oxide. Am. J. Physiol. 273 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 42): R1972–R1979, 1997.—Glucocorticoids increase renal blood flow (RBF) and glomerular filtration rate, but the mechanisms are unclear. We investigated whether the cortisol-induced increment in RBF is a ...

We model optimal e-cigarette regulation and estimate key parameters. Using tax changes scanner data, we relatively elastic demand. A demographic shift-share identification strategy suggests limited substitution between e-cigarettes cigarettes. field a new survey of public health experts who report that vaping is more harmful than previously believed. In our model’s average Monte Carlo simulatio...

We solve the nonlinear income tax program for rank-dependent social welfare functions, expressing trade-off between size and inequality using Gini related families of positional indices. Absent bunching, ranks in actual optimal allocations are invariant. Exploiting this feature, we provide new, simple, intuitive formulas both quasilinear additive cases new comparative static results. Our approa...

ABSTRACT I develop a structural model to quantify the costs of tax avoidance. In model, firm trades off savings with audit risk, financial reporting considerations, and operational frictions imposed by avoidance, last which label as nontax costs. The estimated parameters suggest costs, are difficult observe, decrease pretax income 6.4 percent or $58 million per firm-year. large magnitude this e...

BACKGROUND Postweaning diarrhea caused by pathogenic Escherichia coli, in particular verotoxigenic E. coli (VTEC), has caused significant economic losses in the pig farming industry worldwide. However, there is limited information on VTEC in Malaysia. The objective of this study was to characterize pathogenic E. coli isolated from post-weaning piglets and growers with respect to their antibiogr...

The contribution of flagellin to the virulence of the O113:H21 Shiga-toxigenic Escherichia coli (STEC) strain 98NK2 was investigated in the streptomycin-treated mouse model. Groups of mice were challenged with either the wild-type STEC or a fliC deletion derivative thereof. There was no difference in the level of gut colonization by the two strains, but the fliC mutant was significantly less vi...

Shangraw, Robert E., and Farook Jahoor. Lipolysis and lipid oxidation in cirrhosis and after liver transplantation. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 278: G967– G973, 2000.—On the basis of the finding that plasma glycerol concentration is not controlled by clearance in healthy humans, it has been proposed that elevated plasma free fatty acid (FFA) and glycerol concentrations in cirrhotic ...

During the past 10 years Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) has emerged as one of the most important causes of food-borne infections in industrialized countries. In Finland, with a population of 5.1 million, however, only four STEC O157:H7 infections were identified from 1990 through 1995; the occurrence of non-O157 STEC infections was unknown. In 1996, we established a national pros...

Murray, Ian, Allan D. Sniderman, and Katherine Cianflone. Enhanced triglyceride clearance with intraperitoneal human acylation stimulating protein in C57BL/6 mice. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Endocrinol. Metab. 40): E474–E480, 1999.—Acylation stimulating protein (ASP), a novel adipocytederived autocrine protein, stimulates triglyceride synthesis and glucose transport in vitro in human and murine adipo...