Pulmonary compliance and lung volume varies with ecomorphology in anuran amphibians: implications for ventilatory-assisted lymph flux (open access)

Pulmonary compliance and lung volume varies with ecomorphology in anuran amphibians: implications for ventilatory-assisted lymph flux

This article examining the correlation between pulmonary compliance, lung volume, and lymph flux rates in anurans. The findings of this article suggest that lymph mobilization capacity may explain some of the variation in pulmonary compliance and lung volume in anurans.
Date: October 1, 2011
Creator: Hedrick, Michael; Hillman, Stanley S.; Drewes, Robert C. & Withers, Philip C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lipoxygenase-mediated Oxidation of Polyunsaturated N-Acylethanolamines in Arabidopsis (open access)

Lipoxygenase-mediated Oxidation of Polyunsaturated N-Acylethanolamines in Arabidopsis

Article hypothesizing that lipoxygenase (LOX) participated in the metabolism of PU-NAEs through the formation of NAE-oxylipins. The data suggests that Arabidopsis LOXs indeed compete with FAAH to metabolize PU-NAEs during seedling establishment. Identification of endogenous amide-conjugated oxylipins suggests potential significance of these metabolites in vivo, and FAAH mutants may offer opportunities to address this in the future.
Date: April 29, 2011
Creator: Kilaru, Aruna; Herrfurth, Cornelia; Keereetaweep, Jantana; Hornung, Ellen; Venables, Barney J.; Feussner, Ivo et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Visualization of Lipid Droplet Composition by Direct Organelle Mass Spectrometry (open access)

Visualization of Lipid Droplet Composition by Direct Organelle Mass Spectrometry

Article reporting an approach that combines the visualization of individual lipid droplets (LDs), microphase extraction of lipid components from droplets, and the direct identification of lipid composition by nanospray mass spectrometry, even to the level of a single LD. The triacylglycerol (TAG) composition of LDs from several plant sources (mature cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) embryos, roots of cotton seedlings, and Arabidopsis thaliana seeds and leaves) were examined by direct organelle mass spectrometry and revealed the heterogeneity of LDs derived from different plant tissue sources.
Date: February 4, 2011
Creator: Horn, Patrick J.; Ledbetter, Nicole R.; James, Christopher N.; Hoffman, William D.; Case, Charlene R.; Verbeck, Guido F. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Permutation Complexity Related to the Letter Doubling Map (open access)

Permutation Complexity Related to the Letter Doubling Map

Article presented at the 8th International Conference Words 2011 in Prague, Czech Republic. This article investigates the combinatorial complexity of infinite permutations on N associated with the image of uniformly recurrent aperiodic binary words under the letter doubling map.
Date: August 17, 2011
Creator: Widmer, Steven
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of micro-electrode array based tests for neurotoxicity: assessment of interlaboratory reproducibility with neuroactive chemicals (open access)

Development of micro-electrode array based tests for neurotoxicity: assessment of interlaboratory reproducibility with neuroactive chemicals

Article evaluating the response to the pharmacological compounds Fluoxetine, Muscimol, and Verapamil in primary neuronal cultures. Final conclusions are drawn that MEA technology has a potential for standard in vitro neurotoxicity/neuropharmacology evaluation.
Date: April 27, 2011
Creator: Novellino, A.; Scelfo, Bibiana; Palosaari, T.; Price, A.; Sobanski, Tomasz; Shafer, T.J. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Low-energy positron interactions with xenon (open access)

Low-energy positron interactions with xenon

This article studies low-energy interactions of positrons with xenon experimentally and theoretically. Results are compared with previous literature.
Date: December 8, 2011
Creator: Machacek, J. R.; Makochekanwa, C.; Jones, A.C.L.; Caradonna, P.; Slaughter, D.S.; McEachran, R.P. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library