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1072. A crazy century of memories
- Creator:
- Olšáková, Doubravka
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- bez média and svazek
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- model:article and TEXT
- Language:
- English
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- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ and policy:public
1073. A dampening effect of pulse interval variability on blood pressure variations with respect to primary variability in blood pressure during exercise
- Creator:
- Nataša Honzíková, Krtička, A., Nováková, Z., and Eva Závodná
- Format:
- print, bez média, and svazek
- Type:
- article, články, model:article, and TEXT
- Subject:
- Fyziologie člověka a srovnávací fyziologie, srdeční rytmus, krevní tlak, tělesná cvičení, heart rate, blood pressure, exercises, baroreflex sensitivity, spectral analysis, heart rate variability, blood pressure variability, 14, and 612
- Language:
- English
- Description:
- The correlation between baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) and the spectrum component at a frequency of 0.1 Hz of pulse intervals (PI) and systolic blood pressure (SBP) was studied. SBP and PI of 51 subjects were recorded beat-to-beat at rest (3 min), during exercise (0.5 W/kg of body weight, 9 min), and at rest (6 min) after exercise. BRS was determined by a spectral method (a modified alpha index technique). The subjects were divided into groups according to the spectral amplitude of SBP at a frequency of 0.1 Hz. The following limits of amplitude (in mm Hg) were used: very high ≥ 5.4 (VH); high 5.4 > H ≥ 3 (H); medium 3 > M ≥ 2 (M), low < 2 (L). We analyzed the relationships between 0.1 Hz variability in PI and BRS at rest, during the exercise and during recovery in subgroups VH, H, M, L. The 0.1 Hz variability of PI increased significantly with increasing BRS in each of the groups with identical 0.1 Hz variability in SBP. This relationship was shifted to the lower values of PI variability at the same BRS with a decrease in SBP variability. The primary SBP variability increased during exercise. The interrelationship between the variability of SBP, PI and BRS was identical at rest and during exercise. A causal interrelationship between the 0.1 Hz variability of SBP and PI, and BRS was shown. During exercise, the increasing primary variability in SBP due to sympathetic activation was present, but it did not change the relationship between variability in pulse intervals and BRS., N. Honzíková, A. Krtička, Z. Nováková, E. Závodná., and Obsahuje bibliografii
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1074. A data base for scaling up from the leaf to the canopy
- Creator:
- Pan, X., Hesketh, J. D., Huck, M. G., and Alm, D. M.
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- bez média and svazek
- Type:
- model:article and TEXT
- Subject:
- Gossypium hirsutum, internode, leaf area index, node number, plant height, stem, and Zea mays
- Language:
- Multiple languages
- Description:
- A data base was generated for quantifying effects of thermal time (degree-days) on the appearance of new leaves, the expansion of such leaves to maximum area, their death, the appearance of new internodes below the node associated with such leaves, and the extension of these internodes to maximum length. The data base for a list of crop (agronomic and horticultural), weed, and native Tallgrass Prairie plants has been summarized, with equations for the above events as a function of degree days, with appropriate base temperatures and maximum cut-off temperatures, in a Java applet which is available at a website with the URL <http://th190-50.agn.uiuc.edu>. Associated graphical plots such as shown in this paper are also given. Branching behavior was accounted for. These events predict the effect of thermal time on leaf age and its height in the plant canopy, both important factors needed for upscaling functions for leaf behavior to those for behavior of the plant canopy. The data base is evolving to include coefficients for other species. Coefficients are used to predict the leaf area index of the canopy, which is important for predicting evapotranspiration from the crop and the protection of the soil from erosion. and X. Pan ... [et al,].
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1075. A description of two new species of coccidia (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) from African reptiles with nomenclatural corrections for two Caryospora and one Eimeria species from snakes
- Creator:
- Daszak, Peter and Ball, Stanley John
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- bez média and svazek
- Type:
- model:article and TEXT
- Subject:
- Coccidia, Apicomplexa, Eimeriidae, Eimeria, Caryospora, Reptilia, Sauria, Serpentes, Gerrhosaurus, Chamaeleo, Dendroaspis, Python, and Psammophis
- Language:
- English
- Description:
- Two new species of coccidian parasites are described from African reptiles. Oocysts of Eimeria foulshami sp. n. from the plated lizard Gerrhosaurus major bottegoi Del Prato of Sudan are ellipsoidal, 24.1 × 14.9 (23-26.5 × 14-17.8) µm with a bilayered, colourless oocyst wall and lack polar granules. The ellipsoidal sporocysts average 8.6 × 4.6 (7-10.6 × 4.4-7) µm and possess a prominent, globular, sporocyst residuum. Oocysts of Caryospora regentensis sp. n. from the green mamba Dendroaspis viridis Hallowell of Kenya are spherical to subspherical, 16.8 × 16.4 (16-17.6 × 15-17.2) µm with a bilayered oocyst wall and a single polar granule. The ellipsoidal sporocysts average 13.0 × 10.3 (10.2-14 × 9.2-11) µm and possess a Stieda and substieda body and a prominent globular sporocyst residuum. Oocysts of Caryospora legeri Hoare, 1933 are reported from a hissing sand snake, Psammophis sibilans sibilans L. from Nigeria, representing a new geographical record. The oocysts are slightly larger than the type, but otherwise identical. Caryospora psammophi Bray, 1960 and C. hermae Bray, 1960 from Psammophis sibilans phillipsi, oocysts of which are morphologically similar to and overlap in dimensions with C. legeri Hoare, 1933, are synonymised with the latter species. Eimeria samiae Iskander et Tadros, 1979 is emended to E. samyadeli to reflect the gender of the person the species was named after and because E. sami is preoccupied. In addition to these findings, Eimeria bohemi Modrý, Šlapeta et Koudela, 2000 and oocysts of an unidentified spherical Eimeria sp. are reported from Chamaeleo dilepis dilepis Leach from Cameroon.
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1076. A diagnostic assay based on variable intergenic region distinguishes between Leishmania donovani and Leishmania infantum
- Creator:
- Chocholová, Eva, Jirků, Milan, and Lukeš, Julius
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- bez média and svazek
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- model:article and TEXT
- Language:
- English
- Description:
- We have developed a PCR assay that in a single reaction distinguishes between Leishmania infantum and Leishmania donovani strains on the basis of different size of the amplicon. The targeted intergenic region between putative biopterin transporter and nucleotide binding protein on chromosome 35 is highly variable, species-specific and can be amplified from clinical samples. Based on the assay, five tested Leishmania archibaldi and L. infantum strains from the Sudan and Ethiopia clearly belong to L. donovani, which is in accordance with a recent multifactorial analysis of these strains. The nucleotide sequence reported in this paper has been submitted to the GenBankTM with accession number EU068004.
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1077. A differential mechanical technique for tissue separation in dicotyledonous C4 plants
- Creator:
- M. and Whatley, F.R.
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- Type:
- model:internalpart and TEXT
- Language:
- Multiple languages
- Description:
- A differential mechanical technique for tissue separation, based on the different physical resistance to grinding between mesophyll (M) and bundle sheath (BS) cells, was tested on dicotyledonous C4 plants A triplex canscens, A triplex halimus, Gomphrena globosa, Amaranthus retroflexus, Amaranthus caudatus and Portulaca oleracea. A metal sieve (35 mesh) was placed inside a mortar and pieces of leaves (0.5 cm2) were ground in an aqueous medium on the sieve to obtain a homogenate. The homogenate was at first collected below the sieve and was then filtered through six layers of muslin. Microscopic examination showed that the filtrate was enriched by the M cells and the residue was enriched by BS cells, few of which were broken. The BS cell fraction was then vigorously ground and filtered; this second filtrate was named the BS cell fraction and the first filtrate was named the M cell fraction. Ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase (EC 4.1.1.39) (RuBPC) and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (EC 4.1.1.31) (PEPC) were assayed, and chlorophyll determinations and protein estimations were made on both fractions. As expected, PEPC showed higher activities in the M fractions; contrary to expectation RuBPC was present in M cell fractions in the six dicotyledonous C4 plants tested. The relative high RuBPC activities found in the M fraction could not be explained in terms of bundle sheath contamination.
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1078. A digenean parasite in a mudskipper: Opegaster ouemoensis sp. n. (Digenea: Opecoelidae) in Periophthalmus argentilineatus Valenciennes (Perciformes: Gobiidae) in the mangroves of New Caledonia
- Creator:
- Bray, Rodney A. and Justine, Jean-Lou
- Format:
- bez média and svazek
- Type:
- model:article and TEXT
- Subject:
- Opegaster review, helminths, Nematoda, and Acanthocephala
- Language:
- English
- Description:
- Opegaster ouemoensis sp. n. is described from Periophthalmus argentilineatus Valenciennes (Gobiidae). Distinctive features included the weak or undetectable papillae of the ventral sucker and the small, but distinct cirrus-sac. The new species is compared with 25 marine species of Opegaster for which a table of measurements and ratios is presented. The new combination Opegaster queenslandicus (Aken'Ova, 2007) (originally in Opecoelus) is formed. Fifteen mudskippers were intensively examined for parasites; larval anisakid nematodes and acanthocephalans were found, but no monogeneans, cestodes, copepods, isopods, hirudineans or adult nematodes. A brief summary of the helminth parasites of mudskippers is included.
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1079. A dilemma about the mental
- Creator:
- Dove, Guy and Elpidorou, Andreas
- Format:
- bez média and svazek
- Type:
- model:article and TEXT
- Subject:
- consciousness, materialism, mental, metaphysics, mind, physical, physicalism, reduction, and theory
- Language:
- Slovak
- Description:
- Physicalism demands an explication of what it means for something to be physical. But the most popular way of providing one—viz., characterizing the physical in terms of the postulates of a scientifically derived physical theory—is met with serious trouble. Proponents of physicalism can either appeal to current physical theory or to some future physical theory (preferably an ideal and complete one). Neither option is promising: currentism almost assuredly renders physicalism false and futurism appears to render it indeterminate or trivial. The purpose of this essay is to argue that attempts to characterize the mental encounter a similar dilemma: currentism with respect to the mental is likely to be inadequate or contain falsehoods and futurism leaves too many significant questions about the nature of mentality unanswered. This new dilemma, we show, threatens both sides of the current debate surrounding the metaphysical status of the mind.
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1080. A discrete mode of the antipyretic action of AVP, α-MSH and ACTH
- Creator:
- Ehymayed, H. M. and Janský, L.
- Type:
- article, model:article, and TEXT
- Subject:
- fever, AVP, α-MSH, and thermoregulatory thresholds
- Language:
- English
- Description:
- The antipyretic effect of AVP, α-MSH and ACTH consists in lowering the thrmoregulatory threshold and in shortening the time span of the fever. Thus, neuropeptides influence activity of hypothalamic neurones regulating body temperature. This was confirmed by recent experiments of Moravec (this volume) which indicate that spontaneous activity and thermosensitivity of neurones in hypothalamic slices can be influenced, by AVP. Why neuropeptides of different chemical structure such as AVT, on one hand, and α-MSH and ACTH, on the other hand, induce the same effect on thermoregulation remains to be elucidated.
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