Report of the 5th International Symposium Biology and Taxonomy of Green Algae, Smolenice, Slovakia, June 25–29, 2007

Biologia ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 63 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
František Hindák
Keyword(s):  
International Symposium ◽  
Green Algae ◽  
Slovak Academy ◽  
Scientific Programme ◽  
Poster Presentations ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

AbstractThe International Symposium Biology and Taxonomy of Green Algae V was held at the Congress Centre of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Smolenice, Slovakia, June 25–29, 2007. The symposium was attended by 61 phycologists from 19 countries of Europe (17), Asia (2) and America (4). Thirty-three lectures were given and 28 poster presentations exhibited and discussed. The scientific programme dealt with the taxonomy, ecology, physiology and genetics of green algae. One mid-symposium excursion to the Záhorie region (city of Skalica) was organized.

Acute changes in biliary excretion of reverse triiodothyronine in rats after insulin-induced hypoglycemia: effect of glucose, verapamil, cycloheximide and actinomycin D

1995 ◽  
Vol 132 (5) ◽  
pp. 618-621 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavel Langer ◽  
Klaudia Gschwendtová
Keyword(s):  
Protein Synthesis ◽  
Metabolic Activity ◽  
Biliary Excretion ◽  
Actinomycin D ◽  
Slovak Academy ◽  
Similar Increase ◽  
Reverse Triiodothyronine ◽  
Acute Changes ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Effect Of Glucose

Langer P, Gschwendtová K. Acute changes in biliary excretion of reverse triiodothyronine in rats after insulin-induced hypoglycemia: effect of glucose, verapamil, cycloheximide and actinomycin D. Eur J Endocrinol 1995;132:618–21. ISSN 0804–4643 Biliary excretion of reverse triiodothyronine (rT3) was estimated in rats during hypoglycemia induced by a 10-min infusion of 1 U of insulin (INS) and for the following 5 h. During that period an increase in biliary rT3 was found. This was seen also during the infusion of exogenous glucagon (10 μg in 1.2 ml of saline per 1 h for 5 h) given independently of INS. The infusion of glucose (1 g/kg per 50 min or 2 g/kg per 110 min) following INS infusion delayed the increase in rT3. The increase in rT3 was prevented by actinomycin D (1 mg/kg) when injected before (90 min), but not after (30 min) INS, and also by cycloheximide (2.5 mg/kg) injected immediately before INS. The same dose of cycloheximide also prevented a similar increase of rT3 during the infusion of exogenous glucagon. Verapamil (5 mg/ kg divided into five doses per 4 h) blunted the increase of rT3. These data indicate that following INS injection counter-regulatory hormones may be responsible for the increased production of rT3; this altered metabolic activity apparently is dependent on protein synthesis. Pavel Langer, Institute of Experimental Endocrinology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Vlárska 3, 833 06 Bratislava, Slovakia

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1977 ◽  
Vol 285 (1327) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Recent Decade ◽  
National Committee ◽  
Practical Reasons ◽  
Scientific Programme ◽  
Space Technology ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Related Space ◽  
Space Experiments ◽  
Lunar Samples ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

This volume presents papers delivered during the Royal Society discussion meeting held on 9-12 June 1975 under the auspices of the British National Committee on Space Research. The meeting was organized to present the findings of European and Commonwealth scientists who had participated in the analyses of lunar samples, both as principal and co-investigators in the Apollo lunar sample analysis programme and as analysts of the Luna samples provided by the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences under arrangements with national academies. Scientists from the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. were also invited to participate and so the meeting became sufficiently representative and its timing appropriate for the much needed attempt to review the whole of the work on lunar samples and the results of related space experiments. It was the purpose of the meeting, and of the Proceedings, to show how the new knowledge about the Moon, acquired over the recent decade from the intensive study made possible by the space technology developed in the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R., had solved some and thrown light on other fundamental questions about the Moon. For practical reasons the meeting was overweighted in favour of British and European contributions; but this gave an opportunity for these laboratories to express their appreciation to N.A.S.A. and to the U.S.S.R Academy of Sciences for the opportunity to participate in a unique scientific programme. We hope that the publication will perform a service in bringing before scientists, and indeed the public in general, the remarkable increase in our understanding of the Moon which has resulted from the space programme and will show how international collaboration has been such an important feature of it.

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