BACKGROUND To clarify the role of angiotensin II (Ang II) in insulin-induced arteriosclerosis, we examined the effects of Ang II on insulin-induced mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase activation and cellular hypertrophy in rat vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs). METHODS Phosphorylated MAP kinases were detected with western blot analysis. Cellular hypertrophy and glucose uptake were evalu...

in this paper, first the available single charting methods, which have been proposed to detect simultaneous shifts in a single process mean and variance, are reviewed. then, by designing proper simulation studies these methods are evaluated in terms of in-control and out-ofcontrol average run length criteria (arl). the results of these simulation experiments show that the ewma and ewms methods ...

one series of half-analogues of michler’s ketone containing one or more terminal methoxysubstituents with variable tertiary amino groups have been used in this study. nmr spectralresults for the parent ketones confirm earlier findings that ortho proton shifts are apparentlyindependent from steric effects in derivatives of michler’s ketone because the ring current andcarbonyl-induced shifts are ...

The effects of external pH (7.0-8.0) on intracellular Ca(2+) signals (Ca(2+) sparks and Ca(2+) waves) were examined in smooth muscle cells from intact pressurized arteries from rats. Elevating the external pH from 7.4 to 7.5 increased the frequency of local, Ca(2+) transients, or "Ca(2+) sparks," and, at pH 7.6, significantly increased the frequency of Ca(2+) waves. Alkaline pH-induced Ca(2+) w...

Abstract. Within the conventional framework of a native space structure, a smooth kernel generates a small native space, and “radial basis functions” stemming from the smooth kernel are intended to approximate only functions from this small native space. Therefore their approximation power is quite limited. Recently, Narcowich, Schaback and Ward [NSW], and Narcowich and Ward [NW], respectively,...

Catastrophic shifts are known to pose a serious threat to ecology, and a reliable set of early warning indicators is desperately needed. However, the tools suggested so far have two problems. First, they cannot discriminate between a smooth transition and an imminent irreversible shift. Second, they aimed at predicting the tipping point where a state loses its stability, but in noisy spatial sy...

We study in detail the dependence of the S0 superfluid pairing gap on nuclear interactions and on charge-independence breaking at the BCS level. Starting from chiral effective-field theory and conventional nucleon-nucleon (NN) interactions, we use the renormalization group to generate low-momentum interactions Vlow k with sharp and smooth regulators. The resulting BCS gaps are well constrained ...

Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans smooth variants [SUNY 75(S), SUNY 465, 652] were investigated for their ability to adhere to KB epithelial cells. Both the type of medium (broth versus agar) and anaerobicity influenced adherence levels and cell surface characteristics. Optimal adherence was observed with all three strains after growth of the bacterial cells in broth under anaerobic conditio...

We study in detail the dependence of the S0 superfluid pairing gap on nuclear interactions and on charge-independence breaking at the BCS level. Starting from chiral effective-field theory and conventional nucleon-nucleon (NN) interactions, we use the renormalization group to generate low-momentum interactions Vlow k with sharp and smooth regulators. The resulting BCS gaps are well constrained ...

Heppner, Thomas J., Adrian D. Bonev, L. Fernando Santana, and Mark T. Nelson. Alkaline pH shifts Ca2 sparks to Ca2 waves in smooth muscle cells of pressurized cerebral arteries. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 283: H2169–H2176, 2002; 10.1152/ajpheart.00603.2002.—The effects of external pH (7.0–8.0) on intracellular Ca2 signals (Ca2 sparks and Ca2 waves) were examined in smooth muscle cells from...