Concentrative transporter

At very high dopant concentrations, transport occurs direcdy between the dopant molecules. The polymer acts only as a binder in most cases. Taking TPD-doped PVK as an example, at low TPD concentrations the hole mobihty first decreases from 3 x 10 cm /Vs to 10 cm /Vs with increasing TPD concentration, because TPD molecules act as hole traps (48,49). At higher TPD concentrations, new direct transport channels between the TPD molecules open up and the hole mobihty increases to lO " cm /Vs for ca 60% TPD doping (Table 1, entries 9—11) (48,49). In this case, there is no evidence for unusual interaction between TPD and PVK that affects the hole transport process. 

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Nucleoside analogues are widely used for the treatment of cancers and viral infections. Although there have been considerable advances in the development of new nucleoside analogs, little is known about the transport mechanisms involved in the intestinal absorption of these compounds. Nucleoside transporters have been subdivided into two major classes by Na+-independent equilibrative transporters (ENT family) and Na+-dependent concentrative transporters (CNT family) [77,100-103],... 

Adenosine and inosine can be transported across cell membranes in either direction, facilitated by a membrane-associated nucleoside transport protein. Concentrative transporters have also been identified. Messenger RNA for a pyrimidine-selective Na+-nucleoside cotransporter (rCNTl) and a purine-selective Na+-nucleoside cotransporter (rCNT2) are found throughout the rat brain. Most degradation of adenosine is intracellular, as evidenced by the fact that inhibitors of adenosine transport, such as dipyridamole, increase interstitial levels of adenosine. Dipyridamole is used clinically to elevate adenosine in coronary arteries and produce coronary vasodilation. In high doses, dipyridamole can accentuate adenosine-receptor-mediated actions in the CNS, resulting in sedation and sleep, anticonvulsant effects, decreased locomotor activity and decreased neuronal activity. 

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The emission of fluorescein is strongly self-quenched at higher concentrations (> 10-4 M) of the dye. Thus the yellow-green fluorescence gives way to a dull orange solution at high concentrations. Transport of solutes across a membrane is accompanied by a change in volume. Thus Chen et al. [34] and... 

Quantitative descriptions of MOS devices are available (2, 8, 9,12). This short summary of solid-state physics was intended to illustrate the importance of carrier concentrations, transport, generation, and recombination in device performance. These properties, in turn, depend critically on material parameters resulting from a large number of chemical process sequences. 

Counterion binding is not a well defined quantity, with various experimental techniques weighing the ion distribution slightly differently. Thermodynamic methods (e.g. ion activities or osmotic coefficients) monitor the free counterion concentration, transport methods (e.g. ion self diffusion or conductivity) the counterions diffusing with the micelle, and spectroscopic methods (e.g. NMR) the counterions in close contact with the micelle surface. Measurement of the effect of Na+ counterions on the symmetric S-O stretching modes would also be expected to be highly dependent on the distance of the counterion from the micelle surface (similar to the NMR method). 

The brain needs the influx of nucleosides because the brain is deficient in de novo nucleotide synthesis (102). Purine and pyrimidine nucleosides are necessary for the synthesis of DNA and RNA, but nucleosides also influence many other biological processes. In addition, nucleosides play an important role in the treatment of diseases, such as cardiac diseases, brain cancers, and infections [parasitic and viral (103)]. Nucleosides are hydrophilic compounds, and the influx and efflux of these compounds is therefore mediated by a number of distinct transporters (104). Nucleoside transporters are membrane-fixed transporters and are classified by their transport mechanisms (e = equilibrative, c = concentrative), their sensitivity to the transport inhibitor nitrobenzylmercaptopurine riboside (NBMPR s = sensitive, i = insensitive), and their substrates. Presently, there are two equilibrative transporters (ENTs es and ei) and six concentrative nucleoside transporters [CNTs cif (concentrative, NBMPR insensitive, broad specificity Nl), cit (concentrative, NBMPR insensitive, common permeant thymidine N2), cib (concentrative, NBMPR insensitive, broad specificity N3), cib (concentrative, MBMPR insensitive, broad specificity N4), cs (concentrative, NBMPR sensitive N5), and csg (concentrative, NBMPR sensitive, accepts guanosine as permeant N6) (104)]. The equilibrative es and ei nucleoside transporters are widely expressed in mammalian cells and are present at cultured endothelial cells and brain capillaries (105). In these cells, the expression of concentrative transporter cit (N2) was demonstrated also. In other parts of the rat brain, ei and es nucleoside transport systems have... 

In conclusion, the equilibrative nucleoside transporters are particularly widely expressed in mammalians, whereas until now, the concentrative transporter (CNT2) has been identified at the BBB. Although nucleosides play a role in many biological processes and various diseases, their role at the BBB in relation to brain diseases is not clear. 

Figure 9.14 The effective permeabilities (Pefr, different clinically relevant concentrations to mean SD) of cimetidine in human jejunum at investigate saturation in any carrier-mediated two clinically relevant luminal concentrations. transport across the intestinal epithelium. No The rate and extent of intestinal absorption of difference in Pefr values between the two cimetidine have been widely discussed, and Fa concentrations was noted, and, togetherwith the for this drug has been estimated at around observation that human permeability in vivo is 75% [90, 91], It has been reported that cimetidine similar to permeability in the Caco-2 model (with is a substrate for both P-gp and/or organic cation low expression of carrier proteins), this suggests transporters (OCNT1 and OCNT2) [82, 92], We that passive diffusion is the dominant determined the human jejunal in vivo Pe - at two mechanism even for cimetidine [82],...

In human B-cell lines, activators like phorbol esters (PMA) and bacterial lipopoly-saccharide (LPS) upregulatethe concentrative transporters, whereas the equilibrative transporter hENTl is downregulated. This effect can also be produced by TNF-a,... 

In summary, the Boussinesq-Basset, Brownian, and thermophoretic forces are rarely used in disperse multiphase flow simulations for different reasons. The Boussinesq-Basset force is neglected because it is needed only for rapidly accelerating particles and because its form makes its simulation difficult to implement. The Brownian and thermophoretic forces are important for very small particles, which usually implies that the particle Stokes number is near zero. For such particles, it is not necessary to solve transport equations for the disperse-phase momentum density. Instead, the Brownian and thermophoretic forces generate real-space diffusion terms in the particle-concentration transport equation (which is coupled to the fluid-phase momentum equation). 

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