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Glucocorticoids Inhibit Sodium Depletion-induced Salt Appetite in Rat
Glucocorticoids, produced in adrenal cortex, exert potent natriuretic and diuretic actions in the kidney. Recently, it has been found that glucocorticoids could upregulate the expression of natriuretic peptide receptor A (NPR-A), the primary receptor of atrial natriuretic peptide, in the hypothalamus of the rat. Consequently, systemic administration of glucocorticoid could block dehydration-induced water intake by activation hypothalamic NPR-A. We describe here glucocorticoids could inhibit sodium intake when administrated systemically in conscious, salt-depleted rats; an effect which was strong and long-lasting. The study provided further evidence for the actions of glucocorticoids on central nervous system, which together with their established renal actions coordinated to normalize extracellular fluid volume
Direct CP violation in
We study the direct CP violation in the decay process in the
Standard Model. An interesting mechanism involving the charge symmetry
violating mixing between and is applied to enlarge the CP
asymmetry. With this mechanism, the maximum differential and localized
integrated CP asymmetries can reach and
, respectively, which still leave plenty room
for CP-violating New Physics to be discovered through this process
Transport of the Saharan dust air plumes over the tropical North Atlantic from FORMOSAT–3/COSMIC observation
AbstractLong–range transport of the Saharan dust plumes during May–August of each year is a prominent feature over the tropical North Atlantic. Observations of temperature profiles are highly desirable in clarifying the impacts of the Saharan dust plumes over the tropical North Atlantic. In this work we evaluate positive temperature anomalies (inversions in the lower troposphere) in the North Atlantic low troposphere originating from Western Africa, and to examine the correspondence of these events to Saharan dust plumes, using several temperature sources and satellite–detected measurements of Aerosol Index. We combine profiles of temperature observations from FORMOSAT–3/COSMIC (F3C) with aerosol observations from Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) to provide direct evidence of the Saharan dust plumes modifying environmental stability. The F3C observations show good profile measurements compared with the radiosondes in the lower troposphere, with the average temperature differences less than 0.5K. The F3C results were also compared with the Aqua Advanced Infrared Radiation Sounder (AIRS) and meteorological analyses from the National Centers for Environmental Predictions (NCEP), the United Kingdom Met Office (UKMO), and the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecast (ECMWF). Our results show that hot air plumes are associated with the Saharan dust plumes during their transport across the tropical North Atlantic. There were eleven distinctive hot air plumes during May–August 2007 and 2008, respectively. These hot air plumes increase environmental temperatures below 5–km altitudes, with the maximum increase of 1–2K around 2–km. This leads to increase of environmental stability below 2–km altitudes and decrease of environmental stability between 2– and 5–km altitudes. By changing the vertical distribution of environmental stability, the Saharan dust plumes act to stabilize environmental air below 2–km while destabilize environmental air from 2– to 5–km altitudes. These results are distinctively presented in the F3C and AIRS observations but less obvious in the meteorological analyses
Observations on shifted cumulative regulation
A response to Dynamic cumulative activity of transcription factors as a mechanism of quantitative gene regulation by F He, J Buer, AP Zeng and R Balling. Genome Biol 2007, 8:R181
The Quasinormal Modes and Isospectrality of Bardeen (Anti-) de Sitter Black Holes
Black holes (BHs) exhibiting coordinate singularities but lacking essential
singularities throughout the entire spacetime are referred to as regular black
holes (RBHs). The initial formulation of RBHs was presented by Bardeen, who
considered the Einstein equation coupled with a nonlinear electromagnetic
field. In this study, we investigate the gravitational perturbations, including
the axial and polar sectors, of the Bardeen (Anti-) de Sitter black holes. We
derive the master equations with source terms for both axial and polar
perturbations, and subsequently compute the quasinormal modes (QNMs) through
numerical methods. For the Bardeen de Sitter black hole, we employ the
6th-order WKB approach. The numerical results reveal that the isospectrality is
broken in this case. Conversely, for Bardeen Anti-de Sitter black holes, the
QNM frequencies are calculated by using the HH method.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figures, 4 table
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