The solubility of α-elastin has been applied to construction of elastin-mimetic biomaterials.
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Oxygen transporter, NO scavenger
Oxygen transporter. The Fe2+/Fe3+ balance is a physiological indicator of blood oxygenation; deoxygenated hemoglobin accessorizes a feedback loop by reducing nitrite to NO, a vasodilator which enhances blood flow to oxygen-deprived tissues.
Caution
Since native hemoglobin is readily oxidized in air, these preparations may be predominantly methemoglobin.
Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology, 199(3), 227-238 (2013-01-17)
Songbirds communicate by learned vocalizations with concomitant changes in neurophysiological and genomic activities in discrete parts of the brain. Here, we tested a novel implementation of diffusive optical imaging (also known as diffuse optical imaging, DOI) for monitoring brain physiology
We studied whether 5-month-old to 8-month-old infants process faces in a size-invariant manner by applying the fNIRS-adaptation paradigm used in our previous study. We used near-infrared spectroscopy to measure hemodynamic responses in the temporal regions of infants' brains during the
The supplementary motor area (SMA) has been regarded as a third speech area. The SMA is anatomically classified into two regions, pre-SMA and SMA proper, but the functional specialization of speech production between the two regions remains unknown. Although word
Journal of inorganic biochemistry, 116, 53-54 (2012-09-27)
The effect of the quaternary structure change in deoxy-Hb on the electronic states of the ferrous high-spin heme was studied by multi-frequency electron paramagnetic resonance (MFEPR). We used a single-pass transmission-type EPR at 70-220 GHz and at 1.5K. We compared
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(15), 5759-5764 (2013-03-29)
Label-free functional imaging of single red blood cells (RBCs) in vivo holds the key to uncovering the fundamental mechanism of oxygen metabolism in cells. To this end, we developed single-RBC photoacoustic flowoxigraphy (FOG), which can image oxygen delivery from single
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