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No exposure-related clinical signs or lesions of systemic toxicity and no oncogenic responses were observed in rats exposed by inhalation at concentrations of 0, 15, 45, or 135ppm 6 hours/day, 5 days/week, for 24 consecutive months." Dose-related changes occurred in the anterior portion of the olfactory epithelium and consisted of atrophy of the neurogenic epithelial cells followed by progressive hyperplasia of the reserve cells and ultimately loss of the upper epithelial cell layer. Opacity and neovascularization of the cornea were also observed in methyl acrylate-exposed animals. 

This thermometric method, which consists of measuring the temperature of a reactive medium in an adiabatic polymerization process T(t), is quite close to the calorimetric method. If we assume that the product of specific heat and density, Cpp, does not depend on temperature and the degree of conversion (this assumption is quite realistic), then it is possible to relate changes in temperature dT to heat output dq ... 

It has been suggested that thyroid status is a possible major regulator of metabolic rate. Herlihy et al. [38] found that CR reduces the 24-hour mean serum triiodothyronine (T3) level, but not the thyroxine (T4) level. CR appears to have this action because it attenuates the circadian amplitude in the concentrations of both hormones. However, Snyder et al. [39] found no effect of CR on either T4 or T3 in young rats and no consistent effect of CR on age-related changes in the concentrations of these two hormones. 

Weaver (2003) analyzed the possible role of changes in cloud RF (CRF) at the atmospheric top level, especially in extra-tropical latitudes, as a climate-forming factor whose role consists in regulating poleward meridional heat transport. The cloud dynamics in extra-tropical latitudes and related changes in CRF depend on formation in the atmosphere of vortices responsible for the evolution of storm tracks. It is vortices determining the formation of storm tracks that contribute most to meridional heat transport. 

There were no qualitative differences in the species of anaerobic or aerobic bacteria identified among the dietary groups (data not shown). However, both viable colony counts and microscopic counts indicated that there were 2.5- to 3.8-fold more bacteria per gram of cecal contents in animals fed the pectin-containing or cereal-based diets than in cecal contents of animals fed the purified diet (Table III). No consistent diet-related changes were observed in numbers of aerobic organisms, and the increase in cecal bacteria density was limited to anaerobic organisms. All species of anaerobes identified and counted were elevated in pectin-fed and cereal-based diet-fed animals. 

To what extent long-term treatment with lithium impairs GFR is a matter of continued study (360). Lithium does not appear to impair GFR consistently, especially if correction is made for age-related changes in kidney function, although in one study there was an age-related reduction in 21% of 142 patients who had taken lithium for at least 15 years (366). There have been a few case reports of progressive renal insufficiency attributed to lithium, but it has not been possible to establish a cause-and-effect relation with absolute certainty. 

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