The effect of lactose and iron on strontium absorption

Summary In rats fed on a milk diet with or without the addition of lactose and/or iron the transileal strontium-85 transfer was higher by 14–38% and the intestinal strontium retention lower by 6–23% than in control rats fed on standard laboratory food.Presented, in part, at the 12th Yugoslav Symposium for Radiation Protection, Ohrid 1983, and at the 11th Regional Congress of IRPA (Austrian — Hungarian — Yugoslav Radiation Protection Meeting), Wien 1983. Acknowledgments. This work was supported by a research grant from the Scientific Research Council of the Socialist Republic of Croatia. The author thanks Mrs M. Buben for her technical assistance.     

The effect of lactose and iron on strontium absorption

In rats fed on a milk diet with or without the addition of lactose and/or iron the transileal strontium-85 transfer was higher by 14-38% and the intestinal strontium retention lower by 6-23% than in control rats fed on standard laboratory food.     

The effect ofl-thyroxine on the absorption of calcium and strontium

Résumé Chez le rat, l'administration del-thyroxine pendant les 3 jours précédant un dosage oral de⁴⁷Ca et⁸⁵Sr provoque une augmentation frappante de l'absorption des isotopes. On suggère que cette augmentation est le résultat de l'inhibition du bloc métabolique au passage du calcium et du strontium à travers l'intestin grêle par non assemblage de la phosphorylation oxydative par la thyroxine.     

Formation of hydroxyapatite nuclei induced by dehydration of calcifying solutions

Zusammenfassung Es wird gezeigt, dass bei Entfernung eines Teiles der wasserlöslichen Phase einer meta-stabilen, verkalkenden Lösung, Kalk- und Phosphorionen so angereichert werden, dass «kristallisierte Kerne» von Hydroxyapatit auftreten.

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This work was supported in part by grant No. DE-02456-03 from the National Institute of Dental Research, National Institutes of Health and by contract No. 4234 (00) with the Office of Naval Research, Department of the Navy.     

External strontium and contractility in single giant muscle fibers of the barnacle

Summary Isometric tension and membrane potential in response to electrical stimulation have been studied on single giant muscle fibers of the barnacle upon replacement of external calcium with strontium. Under these conditions, the membrane response showed after the normal peak depolarization, a plateau phase lasting 3–7 sec before repolarization took place, while the force of contraction showed a linear relation with external strontium concentration. A direct action of strontium ions on contractile proteins (namely troponin) can be ruled out in favor of a triggering action on the sarcoplasmic reticulum, which, in turn, leads to calcium release and development of tension.Acknowledgment. I wish to thank Dr C. C. ashley in whose laboratory the research reported in this paper was performed, and Mrs L. M. Castell for invaluable technical assistance. This work was supported by grant No. 106140/048104235 from Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy.     

红外物理与技术发展

经过长期探索,人们掌握了红外辐射的基本规律,不断研制出新型,优质红外探测器件,发展了红外光谱和红外成像等重要技术。并使之在当代许多领域,尤其在遥感,军事及其它高科技领域占据突出地位。     

用红外光谱研究高温超导机理的一些进展

红外光谱是探测固体材料中准粒子激发行为的重要手段。本文将简要介绍近期用红外反射谱研究高温超导机理的一些进展。     

Infrared emission spectra of in vivo human skin

Zusammenfassung Es wird ein Instrument auf Basis der Interferenzmethode, das häufig wiederholte IR-Spektren summieren kann, entwickelt und zur Spektralbeobachtung der IR-Emission der menschlichen Haut benützt.     

海杂波频谱的多重分形特性分析

本文主要研究海杂波频谱的多重分形特性并分析其影响因素．首先介绍了将多重分形理论引入到海杂波频谱分析中的理论基础,然后,采用X波段与S波段相参雷达实测数据验证海杂波频谱的多重分形特性,并采用多重分形去趋势起伏分析（MF-DFA）法对海杂波频谱进行多重分形特性分析、分析结果表明海杂波频谱是一种受长程相关性和概率分布共同影响的多重分形序列,并且频域多重分形参数广义Hurst指数对海杂波单元与目标单元具有一定的区分能力．此外．通过分析广义Hurst指数的影响因素还发现FFT时所采用的时间序列长度对广义Hurst指数影响相对较大,而FFT点数对其影响相对较小．     

Comparative fractionation of DNA from ascites tumour and normal cells on hydroxyapatite column

Zusammenfassung Zwischen DNS normaler und neoplastischer Zellen besteht ein wesentlicher biochemischer Unterschied.     

Effects of stable calcium and strontium on deposition of calcium-45 and strontium-89 in bone

Zusammenfassung Nach einmaliger intraperitonealer Verabreichung von stabilem Kalzium oder Strontium in Mengen bis zu 3000 µg/g Körpergewicht war der Bruchteil des gleichzeitig verabreichten Ca⁴⁵, das sich im Rattenschenkel ablagerte, unverändert. Unter denselben Umständen verabreicht, verminderte stabiles Strontium im Schenkel abgelagertes Sr⁸⁹ ein wenig, aber stabiles Kalzium hatte keine solche Wirkung auf Sr⁸⁹.Während sich die Konzentration des Radioisotops nach einmaliger peroraler Verabreichung im entsprechenden Verhältnis zur Dosis des stabilen Kalzium- oder Strontiumgehalts vermehrte, waren im allgemeinen die Konzentrationen im Schenkel nach einmaliger peroraler Verabreichung kleiner als nach intraperitonealer Verabreichung.     

Reduced foetal calcium without skeletal malformations in rats following high maternal doses of a strontium salt

Zusammenfassung nachweis, dass hohe Strontiumkonzentrationen die Kalzifikation der, Knochen neugeborener Mäuse, und diejenige in Knochengewebskulturen hemmen. Im Gegensatz dazu und zu anderen knochenaffinen metallen wirkt Strontiumnitrat in Dosen von25, 50, 100 and 200 mg/kg, verabreicht während des 9. bis 19. Trächtigkeitstages, bei Ratten nicht teratogen.

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We are indebted to Mr.K. L. Murray of the Government Chemist's Laboratory for analyzing tissue samples by atomic absorption spectrophotometry. We are also grateful toDr. R. F. Crampton, Director of BIBRA, for his interest and advice in this work.     

A note on the use of protease inhibitors during chromatin fractionation on hydroxyapatite columns

It was found that NaHSO3 present in the eluents enabled full and reproducible recovery of chromosomal proteins from a hydroxyapatite column. Another protease inhibitor, PMSF, did not have that effect.     

A note on the use of protease inhibitors during chromatin fractionation on hydroxyapatite columns

Summary It was found that NaHSO₃ present in the eluents enabled full and reproducible recovery of chromosomal proteins from a hydroxyapatite column. Another protease inhibitor PMSF, did not have that effect.     

Infrared metaphysics: radiation and theory-choice. Part 2

We continue our discussion of the competing arguments in favour of the unified theory and the pluralistic theory of radiation advanced by three nineteenth-century pioneers: Herschel, Melloni, and Draper. Our narrative is structured by a consideration of the epistemic criteria relevant to theory-choice; the epistemic focus highlights many little-known aspects of this relatively well-known episode. We argue that the acceptance of light-heat unity (and of the unified theory of radiation more generally) in this period cannot be credibly justified on the basis of common evaluative criteria such as simplicity and standard notions of explanatory power. Whether the consensus was justified by some other criteria remains an open question.     

Infrared metaphysics: the elusive ontology of radiation. Part 1

Hardly any ontological result of modern science is more firmly established than the fact that infrared radiation differs from light only in wavelength; this is part of the modern conception of the continuous spectrum of electromagnetic radiation reaching from radio waves to gamma radiation. Yet, like many such evident truths, the light-infrared unity was an extremely difficult thing to establish. We examine the competing arguments in favour of the unified and pluralistic theories of radiation, as put forward in the first half of the nineteenth century by three of the most important early pioneers of the study of radiation: Herschel, Melloni and Draper. In this part of the paper, we conclude that there were no compelling reasons of observational adequacy to prefer the unified theory to the pluralistic theory. (Whether there were other conclusive reasons for that preference is the question addressed in Part 2 of the paper.)     

A wide spectrum of resistance to pyrethroid insecticides inMusca domestica

Summary Selection of a strain of house flies with the pyrethroid bioresmethrin has resulted in a wide range of cross resistance to 15 other pyrethroid insecticides.