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Maldives - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, is an island nation consisting of a group of atolls in the Indian Ocean, south of Lakshadweep group of islands of India, about seven hundred kilometers (435 mi) south-west of Sri Lanka. The twenty-six atolls encompass a territory featuring 1,192 islets, roughly two hundred of which are inhabited by people. Despite this, the archipelago's low lying nature (one of the lowest lying countries on Earth) meant that nearly all of the country was swamped. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maldives   (2301 words)

A Novel Variant of Ionotropic Glutamate Receptor Regulates Somatostatin Secretion From {delta}-Cells of Islets of ... Islets were incubated in a Ringer solution containing 16.7 mmol/l glucose for 1 h, as indicated, and then transferred to the medium containing 3.3 mmol/l glucose in the presence or absence of the listed compounds. Islets were incubated in a Ringer solution containing 3.3 mmol/l glucose for 1 h, as indicated, and then transferred to a medium containing 16.7 mmol/l glucose in the presence or absence of the listed compounds for 1 h. Islets were then transferred to 16.7 or 3.3 mmol/l glucose in the presence or absence of somatostatin at 100 nmol/l, and incubated for an additional 30 min. diabetes.diabetesjournals.org /cgi/content/full/53/7/1743   (3847 words)

A tale of two rhythms: a comparative review of the pulsatile endocrine systems regulating insulin and GnRH secretion Islets of Langerhans are micro-organs that constitute the endocrine portion of the mammalian pancreas and are responsible for regulating blood glucose and body energy metabolism (20). Islets vary in size and shape, and possess their own microvasculature to rapidly carry insulin and other secreted factors out of the islet, as well as to receive nutrients and regulatory factors (21, 22). Low frequency islet oscillations have also been shown to closely correlate with oscillations in insulin secretion in vitro (50-52) and in vivo (63), suggesting that islet oscillations are indeed important to physiological insulin secretion. www.cellscience.com /Reviews5/Pulsatile_endocrine_systems.html   (8635 words)

Rakahanga Island Most of these islets are rather thickly covered with vegetation: groves of coconut palms, the remains of former native forest, and excavated or natural low, swampy places planted to a kind of taro called puraka (Cyrtosperma). The small islet of Te Kainga was the site of the original village on Rakahanga, the other islets being used to grow a food supply. When this islet was outgrown, the village was moved to the larger adjoining islet to the south. www.janeresture.com /rakahanga   (939 words)

Darwin, Coral reefs chapter 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) The accompanying woodcut represents a vertical section, supposed to be drawn at low water from the outer coast across one of the low islets (one being taken of average dimensions) to within the lagoon. islets on the leeward side of atolls, or when present their lesser dimensions compared with those to windward, is a comparatively unimportant fact; but in several instances the reef itself on the leeward side, retaining its usual defined outline, does not rise to the surface by several fathoms. That the formation of the islets is due to detritus thrown up from the outside, as in the ordinary manner, and not from the interior of the lagoons, may, I think, be safely inferred from several considerations, which it is hardly worth while to detail. pages.britishlibrary.net /charles.darwin4/coral/coral01.html   (9620 words)

Darwin, Coral reefs Appendix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) The breadth of the islets on the reef is unusually great, and the sea near it does not deepen so suddenly as is generally the case. On one side of the islet of Kohaihai there is a bank of sand and coral with five feet water on it, running parallel to the shore, and leaving a channel of about fifteen feet deep within. Hence it is easy to understand the origin of the low land on the coasts, where sediment is now accumulating; for instance, on the northern part of Yucutan, and on the N. part of Mosquito, where the land is low, and where extensive banks appear to be in progressive formation. pages.britishlibrary.net /charles.darwin4/coral/coral_appendix.html   (16747 words)

iQB:  Judgment 16 March 2001 - Separate opinion of Judge Oda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) I believe that the questions of whether sovereignty over an islet or a low-tide elevation may be acquired through appropriation by a State and how such features can affect the extent of the territorial sea or the boundary of the territorial sea remain open matters. This is necessary because in the present case the islets and low-tide elevations are really the most crucial points, leaving aside the matter of sovereignty over the Hawar Islands, in determining the maritime boundary. The extension of the breadth of the territorial sea to 12 miles would have resulted in a radical change in the context of the concepts of low-tide elevation, island and islet, straight baselines, etc., which were introduced in 1958 to reflect customary international law at that time. www.icj-cij.org /icjwww/idocket/iqb/iqbjudgments/ijudgment_20010316/iqb_ijudgment_20010316_separate_oda.htm   (8275 words)

NWHI : Research : NOWRAMP 2002 : Journals Many of these islets are so low that they can become completely washed over with the smallest change in tide or currents through the various seasons of the year. These different islets that make up the atoll are branches that channel the fresh water inward to lagoon lakes, like veins in a body. The types of native plant species that grow here are the `akulikuli, which covers the jagged coral surface like a soft carpet; the `alina, which is a low lying shrub that has beautiful small white flowers; and the nohu, which is a hearty indigenous shrub that seems to tolerate the most difficult of environments. www.hawaiianatolls.org /research/NOWRAMP2002/journals/manawai.php   (563 words)

Draft Plan for Bass Strait Reserves. Low Islets, Moriarty Rocks and Cat Island are off-shore islands of the Furneaux group off the north east coast of Tasmania and form part of the Flinders Municipality. The Low Islets Nature Reserve is comprised of two small islets situated to the east of Clarke Island in Bass Strait. Low Islets harbour a wide variety of important seabirds, of which the Caspian Tern, the White-fronted Tern and the Australian Pelican are listed as rare in Tasmania under the Tasmanian Threatened Species Act, 1995. members.iinet.net.au /~lford1/bassman.htm   (5682 words)

Pulsatile Insulin Release from Pancreatic Islets with Nonoscillatory Elevation of Cytoplasmic Ca2+ -- Westerlund et al. ... Pancreatic islets were collagenase-isolated from overnight-starved ob/ob mice taken from a local colony (23). Freshly isolated individual islets were first perifused for 75 min with medium containing 3 mM glucose. Van Cauter (1986) In vivo pulsatility of pancreatic islet peptides. www.jci.org /cgi/content/full/100/10/2547   (3164 words)

Evidence from Transgenic Mice That Interferon-beta May Be Involved in the Onset of Diabetes Mellitus -- Pelegrin et al. ... Isolation of Pancreatic Islets-- Islets were isolated from the pancreas of control or transgenic mice fed a standard or a high carbohydrate diet. islets in RPMI 1640 with 5% fetal calf serum in the absence or A, islet from control mice (magnification, 400 ×); B, islet from transgenic mice, which showed a marked decrease in insulin-producing cells (magnification, 400 ×); C and D, islets from transgenic mice showing mononuclear infiltration (magnification, 400 ×). www.jbc.org /cgi/content/full/273/20/12332   (4770 words)

Influences of Pre- and Postnatal Nutritional Exposures on Vascular/Endocrine Systems in Animals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) Blood flow was normal in different organs (islets, exocrine pancreas, colon, kidney, and duodenum) from the progeny of a mother fed a low-protein diet during gestation but fed a normal diet after birth (28). This is associated with functional vascular defects in the islets, the exocrine pancreas (28), and the retina (29). Islet function in offspring of mothers on low protein diet during gestation. www.ehponline.org /members/2000/suppl-3/563-568hoet/hoet-full.html   (7114 words)

NORWAY (Norge) - Online Information article about NORWAY (Norge) The snow-line in Norway is estimated at 3080 ft. in Seiland, 5150 ft. on Dovre Fjeld, and from 4100 to 4900 ft. in Jotunheim. Coast.—The flanks of the plateau fall abruptly to the sea almost throughout the coast-line, and its isolated fragments appear in the innumerable islands which fringe the SkJurmainland. series of lakes, Olden, Loen and Stryn, whose milky waters are supplied almost directly from the with two low islets at the E. extremity of Norway. encyclopedia.jrank.org /NEW_NUM/NORWAY_Norge_.html   (4669 words)

Defective Stimulus-Secretion Coupling in Islets of Psammomys obesus, an Animal Model for Type 2 Diabetes -- Nesher et ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) recovery of the islets from in vivo hyperglycemia. basal and glucose-stimulated insulin responses in islets from The inability of DP-HE islets to increase glucose oxidation diabetes.diabetesjournals.org /cgi/content/full/50/2/308   (4604 words)

Adenovirus-mediated Knockout of a Conditional Glucokinase Gene in Isolated Pancreatic Islets Reveals an Essential Role ... In the control islet, the NAD(P)H signal is greatly elevated in all cells, but in the AdenoCre-treated islet, many cells show a weak response. islets are ~5% less responsive than cells from wild-type mice. The normal distribution curve of islet cells from wild-type mice is overlaid. www.jbc.org /cgi/content/full/274/2/1000   (3891 words)

Natural Disasters Severe tropical storms are accompanied by massive rainfall and the low pressure may cause the sea to rise as much as 2 metres. All the low islands of the Tuamotus and Societies were damaged. The most vulnerable communities are impoverished peoples occupying marginal environments (such as low-lying filled mangrove swamps, urban areas of atoll islets, or steep-sloped mountain areas), with high population density and dependence on a single source of sustenance. www.unescap.org /MCED2000/pacific/background/disasters.htm   (1401 words)

Contrasted Impact of Maternal Rat Food Restriction on the Fetal Endocrine Pancreas -- Alvarez et al. 138 (6): 2267 -- ... No differences in size or number were found in islets of mothers (M) at 21.5 days gestation from either control (C) or 14–21 U (14–21 UM) groups. was increased, and the response of insulin and islet insulin the fetuses and induces an elevated response of fetal islets endo.endojournals.org /cgi/content/full/138/6/2267   (5065 words)

IBA Site Listing The Chain Islets and Great Chain Island are located in Oak Bay, in the Juan de Fuca Strait, less than 2 km from the suburbs of Victoria, British Columbia. The low round islets are rocky and barren except for Great Chain Island that supports a nearly continuous grass and herbaceous cover and occasional shrub thickets. Chain Islets and Great Chain Island is a site of global importance, supporting a significant breeding population of Glaucous-winged Gulls, and a migratory population of Brandts Cormorants. www.bsc-eoc.org /iba/site.jsp?siteID=BC045   (506 words)

Diabin Is A Natural Diabetes Treatment, Diabetes Diet Supplement. Insulin is a peptide hormone secreted by the ß-cells of the islets of Langerhans of the pancreas in response to an elevation in blood glucose or other secretagogues. Type II is characterized by Insulin insensitivity evidenced by typically high levels of circulating Insulin and the reversibility of blood sugar elevation by dietary changes and/or weight loss sufficient to restore Insulin sensitivity. Low GTF chromium levels are a major determinant of Insulin insensitivity, and obesity is yet another significant factor; onset is generally diet related and usually occurs later in life. www.vaxa.com /669.cfm   (2119 words)

Superoxide-mediated activation of uncoupling protein 2 causes pancreatic {beta} cell dysfunction -- Krauss et al. 112 ... upregulated by hyperglycemia in vitro (10, 11), and in islets Pancreatic islets were isolated from WT (a) or UCP2 KO mice (b) and subjected to chronic incubations at low and high glucose. Islets were incubated for a total of 72 hours and washed, and then insulin-secretion studies were performed using three different concentrations of glucose (5.5, 12.5, and 25 mM). www.jci.org /cgi/content/full/112/12/1831   (7158 words)

Defective Glucose-Stimulated Insulin Release in the Diabetic Goto-Kakizaki (GK) Rat Coincides with Reduced Activity of ... Islets were isolated with the aid of collagenase and used for The islets were incubated in batches of 10 islets in each vial. At 3.3 mmol/liter glucose, there were 10–14 batches of islets in each group, and at 16.7 mmol/liter glucose, there were 11–20 batches of islets in each group. endo.endojournals.org /cgi/content/full/146/3/1553   (4735 words)

Epinephrine-induced hyperpolarization of islet cells without KATP channels -- Sieg et al. 286 (3): E463 -- AJP - ... Membrane potential (Vm) of cultured mouse islet cells was measured using the perforated patch clamp technique as described in Representative traces of membrane potential from wild-type cells are shown in A and B and from Sur1KO islet cells in C-G. Enhanced insulin secretion and cyclic AMP accumulation in pancreatic islets due to activation of native calcium ionophores. ajpendo.physiology.org /cgi/content/full/286/3/E463   (3855 words)

AIMS Research - Monitoring Reef Pages Three species of Scaridae (Scarus rivulatus, S. flavippinus and Chlororus microohinos) have increased steadily from a low in 1997. The general increase in Acanthuridae is an artifact resulting from a common low for all species in the 1995 survey with trends in abundance at the species level being quite variable. Low Islets (No. 16-028) is an inner shelf planar reef with an area of 2.3 sq.km. www.aims.gov.au /monmap/reefpages/CA/16028S.html   (410 words)

Homer The centre of the low is on Kodiak. The coastline on the Alaska Peninsula is broken by shoals and rocks, islands and islets. Near Kodiak a low pressure deepened to 983 mb and for Friday Kodiak waters got a storm warning, 50 knots. www.kristiina.kaapeli.fi /log28.htm   (3830 words)

Gene expression profiling in single cells from the pancreatic islets of Langerhans reveals lognormal distribution of ... Gene expression profiling in single cells from the pancreatic islets of Langerhans reveals lognormal distribution of mRNA levels -- Bengtsson et al. Gene expression profiling in single cells from the pancreatic islets of Langerhans reveals lognormal distribution of mRNA levels Bishop, A.E. and Polak, J.M. The anatomy, organisation and ultrastructure of the islets of Langerhans. www.genome.org /cgi/content/full/15/10/1388   (2931 words)

Coral Reefs - Chapter I. Atolls or Lagoon-Islands by Charles Darwin low water from the outer coast across one of the low islets (one being low tide of this "flat" of naked stone, especially where it is externally The lagoon in Keeling atoll is shallow; in the atolls of the Low www.darwin-literature.com /Coral_Reefs/3.html   (9568 words)

www.diabetesguide.info Site Map Page 1 Calorie diet, low calorie diet, 1200 calorie diet Calorie diet, low calorie diet, 1200 calorie diet, negative calorie diet1200 calorie diet plan Best Internet Links For 1200 calorie diet plan? The images below have file sizes ranging from 50 to 250k. The islets of Langerhans are destroyed in type I diabetes mellitus. www.diabetesguide.info /diabetes/sitemap   (3355 words)

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