Evidence for a modulation of the stress response by the pineal gland

Wistar rats show a circadian variation in their response to stress. Pinealectomy exacerbates stress-induced gastric ulceration in rats. This effect is counteracted by melatonin administration.     

Cholesterol metabolism in the myelin of rat brain

Résumé La persistance de la radioactivité incorporée dans le cholesterol et les lipides totaux de la myeline cérébrale a été mesurée pendant 200 jours après un injection i.p. de glucose U-¹⁴C chez des rats de 6 semaines ayant donc précisément dépassé la période de myelinisation active et également chez des animaux de 6 mois. La radioactivité spécifique relativement faible incorporée dans le cholesterol de la myeline des animaux les plus jeunes a décru lentement tandis que chez les animaux adultes elle est restée pratiquement constante. L'incorporation de carbone de glucose dans le cholesterol de la myeline des animaux adultes ne reflète probablement pas le «turnover» du cholesterol mais pourrait indiquer plutôt que la myeline continue à être formée lentement tout au long de la vie de l'animal.     

Amperometric studies on chromium (III) and iron (III) hydroxocyanotungstates (IV)

Zusammenfassung Die Zusammensetzung von in wässeriger Lösung gebildeten Ionenpaaren des Anions [W(CN)₄(OH)₄]^4- mit Cr³⁺ bzw. Fe³⁺ wird amperometrisch ermittelt.

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Acknowledgment. The authors are grateful to Dr.S. M. F. Rahman for providing necessary facilities and C.S.I.R. (India) for awarding a Junior Fellowship to one of them (K. U.).     

任意半环上正则元的广义逆

研究了任意半环上正则元的广义逆的存在性.给出了任意半环上正则元的{1,2}-逆存在的一些充分条件,同时给出了{1,2}-逆存在时的表达式.作为{1,2}-逆的特殊情形,刻画了任意半环上正则元的Moore-Penrose逆和群逆的存在性.     

Texture of the nano-crystalline AlN thin films and the growth conditions in DC magnetron sputtering

DC reactive magnetron sputtering technique has been used for the preparation of Al N thin fi lms. The deposition temperature and the fl ow ratio of N2/Ar were varied and subsequent dependency of the fi lms crystallites orientation/texture has been addressed. In general, deposited fi lms were found hexagonal polycrystalline with a(002) preferred orientation. The X-ray diffraction(XRD) data revealed that the fi lm crystallinity improves,with the increase of substrate temperature from 300 ℃to 500℃. The dropped in full width half maximum(FWHM) of the XRD rocking curve value further con fi rmed it. However, increasing substrate temperature above 500 ℃or reducing the nitrogen condition(from 60 to 30% in the environment) induced the growth of crystallites with(102) and(103) orientations. The rise of rocking curve FWHM for the corresponding conditions depicted that the fi lms texture quality deteriorated. A further con fi rmation of the variation in fi lm texture/orentation with the growth conditions has been obtained from the variation in FWHM values of a dominant E1(TO) mode in the Fourier transform infrared(FTIR) spectra and the E2(high) mode in Raman spectra. We have correlated the columnar structure in AFM surface analyses with the(002) or c-axis orientation as well. Spectroscopic ellipsometry of the samples have shown a higher refractive index at 500 ℃growth temperature.