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Diminished fraction of blockable ATP-sensitive K+ channels in islets transplanted into diabetic mice
The reasons for the poor outcome of islet transplantation in diabetic patients are not well known; a better understanding of the pathophysiology of transplanted islets is needed. To study the mechanism coupling secretagogue stimuli with insulin release in transplanted islets, we determined the effects of glucose, tolbutamide, and carbamylcholine on the beta-cell membrane potential and cytosolic calcium concentrations ([Ca2+]i) of islets syngeneically transplanted into normal and streptozocin-induced diabetic mice. In both groups, normoglycemia was maintained after transplantation. Islets transplanted into normal recipients showed similar changes in beta-cell membrane potential and [Ca2+]i oscillations to those in control islets. In contrast, when islets were transplanted into diabetic mice, bursts of electrical activity were triggered at lower glucose concentrations (5.6 mmol/l) than in control islets (11 mmol/l), and maximal electrical activity was achieved at lower glucose concentrations (11 mmol/l) than in control islets (22 mmol/l). When membrane potential was plotted as a function of glucose concentration, the dose-response curve was shifted to the left. Compared with control islets, glucose-induced [Ca2+]i oscillations were broader in duration (22.3 +/- 0.6 s vs. 118.1 +/- 12.6 s; P < 0.01) and higher in amplitude (135 +/- 36 nmol/l vs. 352 +/- 36 nmol/l; P < 0.01). Glucose supersensitivity was attributed to a resting decrease in the fraction of blockable ATP-sensitive K+ (K+(ATP)) channels in transplanted islets that maintained normoglycemia with a limited beta-cell mass
Unitarized chiral perturbation theory of hadrons
An exposition is made of recent developments using techniques of unitary
chiral perturbation theory, , which allows one to extend
predictions using chiral Lagrangians to higher energies than ordinary chiral
perturbation theory, including the region of low lying mesonic and baryonic
resonances, some of which are dynamically generated in the approach. Results
for meson meson scattering, pion and kaon form factors and meson baryon
scattering are shown. Applications are done for nuclear problems showing the
results for the kaon and eta selfenergies, phi renormalization in a nuclear
medium and renormalization in the medium, comparing results with
recent experiments.Comment: Talk at PANIC2002 Conference, Osaka, October 200
Recent progress on the chiral unitary approach to meson meson and meson baryon interactions
We report on recent progress on the chiral unitary approach, analogous to the
effective range expansion in Quantum Mechanics, which is shown to have a much
larger convergence radius than ordinary chiral perturbation theory, allowing
one to reproduce data for meson meson interaction up to 1.2 GeV. Applications
to physical processes so far unsuited for a standard chiral perturbative
approach are presented. Results for the extension of these ideas to the meson
baryon sector are discussed, together with applications to kaons in a nuclear
medium and atoms.Comment: Contribution to the KEK Tanashi Symposium on Physics of Hadrons and
Nuclei, Tokyo, December 1998, 10 pages, 3 postscript figures. To be published
as a special issue of Nuclear Physics
The meson in a nuclear medium through two pion photoproduction
We present theoretical results for production on
nucleons and nuclei in the kinematical region where the scalar isoscalar amplitude is influenced by the pole. The final state interaction
of the pions modified by the nuclear medium produces a spectacular shift of
strength of the two pion invariant mass distribution induced by the moving of
the pole to lower masses and widths as the nuclear density increases.Comment: 14 pages, 7 figure
Interactive technologies for preschool game-based instruction: Experiences and future challenges
This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Entertainment Computing. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Entertainment Computing, vol. 17 (2016). DOI 10.1016/j.entcom.2016.07.001.[EN] According to current kindergarten curricula, game play is an important basis for children development
and it is the main driving force when designing educational activities during early childhood. This paper
presents a review of the current state of the art of game technologies that support pre-kindergarten and
kindergarten children development. Moreover, the most emergent technologies for developing educational
games for preschool children are identified and a set of future challenges are discussed. The main
goal of this work is to review the state of the art in interactive technologies which will help educators,
game designers and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) experts in the area of game-based kindergarten
instruction.
2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.This work received financial support from Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and funded by the European Development Regional Fund (EDRF-FEDER) with the project TIN2014-60077-R (SUPEREMOS). This work is also supported by a predoctoral fellowship within the FPU program from the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports to V. Nacher (FPU14/00136) and from GVA (ACIF/2014/214) to F. Garcia-Sanjuan.Nácher-Soler, VE.; García Sanjuan, F.; Jaén Martínez, FJ. (2016). Interactive technologies for preschool game-based instruction: Experiences and future challenges. Entertainment Computing. 17:19-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.entcom.2016.07.001S19291
The role of Delta(1700) excitation and rho production in double pion photoproduction
Recent information on invariant mass distributions of the reaction, where previous theoretical models had shown
deficiencies, have made more evident the need for new mechanisms, so far
neglected or inaccurately included. We have updated a previous model to include
new necessary mechanisms. We find that the production of the meson, and
the excitation, through interference with the dominant terms,
are important mechanisms that solve the puzzle of the
reaction without spoiling the early agreement with the and reactions.Comment: 39 pages, 13 figures (ps files). Final version. To be published in
Nucl. Phys.