The present study reports a factorial greenhouse experiment usinga randomized completeblock design in 2014 which investigated the effects of salt-pretreatedGlomus fasciculatumfungus, salinity, and the interaction effect of these variables on thephysiological properties ofbarley. The first factor was mycorrhizasalinity pretreated with different levels of salt (0, 25, 50and100mM) and the second f...

For ternary polymer-salt-water systems at low polymer concentration (0.5%, w/w), we have experimentally investigated the effect of polymer size on polymer diffusiophoresis (i.e., polymer migration induced by a salt concentration gradient) and salt osmotic diffusion (i.e., salt migration induced by a polymer concentration gradient). Specifically, Rayleigh interferometry was employed to measure t...

This study examined the effect of 25% deuterium oxide in drinking water on systolic blood pressure, uptakes of calcium, and rubidium 86 by aortas of Dahl salt-sensitive rats on 0.4% (low) and 8% (high) sodium chloride (salt) diet. Twenty-four rats were divided into four groups. Groups I and II were on the low salt diet and groups III and IV on the high salt diet from 6 weeks of age. Additionall...

in order to assess the genetic variability for seed germination parameters under salt stress in sunflower and corresponding qtl locations, an experiment was conducted using a population of 80 recombinant inbred lines obtained from a cross between pac2 and rha266. the experiment was arranged under a randomized complete block design with three replications in control and saline conditions. severa...

-The kallikrein-kininogen-kinin system is an important vasodilator and vasodepressor component of the cardiovascular system. Acting mainly through B(2) receptors, kinins may counterbalance the pressor effect of angiotensin II, salt, and mineralocorticoids plus salt. Using rats lacking the bradykinin precursors low- and high-molecular-weight kininogen or a B(2) kinin receptor antagonist (icatiba...

To assess the effect of reducing salt intake on blood pressure in children, we carried out a meta-analysis of controlled trials. Trials were included if participants were children (< or = 18 years), and duration of salt reduction must have been for > or = 2 weeks. Mean effect size was calculated using a fixed-effect model, because there was no significant heterogeneity. Ten trials of children a...

Halobacterium cutirubrum extracts exhibit no menadione reductase activity in the absence of salt; activity increases with salt concentration to a maximum at 2 M or higher concentrations of sodium chloride. The enzyme activity lost at low salt concentrations can be restored by adding 2 M NaCl. In addition to this reversible loss of activity, the enzyme also exhibits a time-dependent irreversible...

We report the four diffusion coefficients for the lysozyme-MgCl2-water ternary system at 25 degrees C and pH 4.5. The comparison with previous results for the lysozyme-NaCl-water ternary system is used to examine the effect of salt stoichiometry on the transport properties of lysozyme-salt aqueous mixtures. We find that the two cross-diffusion coefficients are very sensitive to salt stoichiomet...

A blunted pressure-natriuretic response characterizes hypertension in the Dahl salt-sensitive rat. Long-term L-arginine administration prevents hypertension in these animals. To determine if long-term L-arginine corrects the pressure-natriuretic response, we gave salt-sensitive rats on an 8% sodium diet L-arginine or vehicle daily for 3 weeks. Identically treated salt-resistant rats served as c...