In this paper, we describe the influence of monocarboxylic acids (formic acid and acetic acid) and dicarboxylic acids (succinic acid and adipic acid), which are usually contained in aerosol particles ...and fog water, on the growth of tobacco plant. Their influence was examined by spraying the acid solutions on intact plants and by administering them in a culture medium for suspension-cultured cells. Their growth rates suggest that the influence of short-chain monocarboxylic acids was not significant in both the intact plant experiment and the cell culture experiment. In contrast, dicarboxylic acids exhibited significant influence on the growth of intact plants and no influence on culture cells, indicating that their toxicity is exerted mainly on the tissue of leaf surface. Phytotoxicity of dicarboxylic acids is higher than that of monocarboxylic acids.
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BFBNIB, GIS, IJS, KISLJ, NUK, PNG, UL, UM, UPUK
We investigated the effect of solution pH on the adsorption on silica of a mixture radionuclides 83Rb, 85Sr, 54Mn, 65Zn, 88Y, and 75Se generated from irradiation of Ag in a 135-MeV/nucleon 12C beam ...accelerated by the RIKEN Ring Cyclotron and 137Cs obtained commercially. Then, we related these findings to their uptake by a rice plant (Oryza sativa L. cv. Koshihikari) from a silica-multitracer solution at pH 4.3 +/- 0.2 and at 5.3 +/- 0.2. To evaluate both adsorption and uptake, precisely we used a multitracer technique that simultaneously tracked the movements of all of the radionuclides. There was an increase in the uptake of Rb, Cs, Sr, Mn, and Zn by the rice plants with the increase in pH from 4.3 to 5.3. By contrast, the uptake of Y and Se was less at the higher pH. Our findings suggest that the uptake of these elements is governed by their transport systems on the plasma membrane and by their affinity to silica, both of which are regulated by H+ concentration.
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EMUNI, FIS, FZAB, GEOZS, GIS, IJS, IMTLJ, KILJ, KISLJ, MFDPS, NLZOH, NUK, OBVAL, OILJ, PNG, SAZU, SBCE, SBJE, SBMB, SBNM, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK, VKSCE, ZAGLJ
The molar excess enthalpies of 1,2- and 1,3-propanediamine+1,2- and 1,3-propanediol have been determined at 298.15 K by using a twin-microcalorimeter which requires each component liquid 1 to 1.5 cm3 ...for a series of runs over the whole range of mole fraction. All excess enthalpies are exothermic and large. An equilibrium constant K1 expressed in terms of mole fractions and standard enthalpy of formation of 1:1 complex have been evaluated by ideal mixtures of momomeric molecules and their associated complexes.
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EMUNI, FIS, FZAB, GEOZS, GIS, IJS, IMTLJ, KILJ, KISLJ, MFDPS, NLZOH, NUK, OBVAL, OILJ, PNG, SAZU, SBCE, SBJE, SBMB, SBNM, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK, VKSCE, ZAGLJ
The quantification of spontaneous calcium (Ca
2+) oscillations (SCOs) in astrocytes presents a challenge because of the large irregularities in the amplitudes, durations, and initiation times of the ...underlying events. In this article, we use a stochastic context to account for such SCO variability, which is based on previous models for cellular Ca
2+ signaling. First, we found that passive Ca
2+ influx from the extracellular space determine the basal concentration of this ion in the cytosol. Second, we demonstrated the feasibility of estimating both the inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP
3) production levels and the average number of IP
3 receptor channels in the somatic clusters from epifluorescent Ca
2+ imaging through the combination of a filtering strategy and a maximum-likelihood criterion. We estimated these two biophysical parameters using data from wild-type adult mice and age-matched transgenic mice overexpressing the 695-amino-acid isoform of human Alzheimer
β-amyloid precursor protein. We found that, together with an increase in the passive Ca
2+ influx, a significant reduction in the sensitivity of G protein-coupled receptors might lie beneath the abnormalities in the astrocytic Ca
2+ signaling, as was observed in rodent models of Alzheimer's disease. This study provides new, to our knowledge, indices for a quantitative analysis of SCOs in normal and pathological astrocytes.
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