Previous field studies in the Southern Ocean (SO) indicated an increased occurrence and dominance of cryptophytes over diatoms due to climate change. To gain a better mechanistic understanding of how the two ecologically important SO phytoplankton groups cope with ocean acidification (OA) and iron (Fe) availability, we chose two common representatives of Antarctic waters, the cryptophyte Geminigera cryophila and the diatom Pseudo-nitzschia subcurvata. Both species were grown at 2°C under different pCO (400 vs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDittmar proposed that mixing alone can explain our observed decrease in marine dissolved organic sulfur with age. However, their simple model lacks an explanation for the origin of sulfur-depleted organic matter in the deep ocean and cannot adequately reproduce our observed stoichiometric changes. Using radiocarbon age also implicitly models the preferential cycling of sulfur that they are disputing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo understand the drivers in the biological system response to dopamine D2 receptor antagonists, a mechanistic semiphysiologically based (PB) pharmacokinetic-pharmacodymanic (PKPD) model was developed to describe prolactin responses to risperidone (RIS) and its active metabolite paliperidone (PAL). We performed a microdialysis study in rats to obtain detailed plasma, brain extracellular fluid (ECF), and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) concentrations of PAL and RIS. To assess the impact of P-glycoprotein (P-gp) functioning on brain distribution, we performed experiments in the absence or presence of the P-gp inhibitor tariquidar (TQD).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlthough sulfur is an essential element for marine primary production and critical for climate processes, little is known about the oceanic pool of nonvolatile dissolved organic sulfur (DOS). We present a basin-scale distribution of solid-phase extractable DOS in the East Atlantic Ocean and the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. Although molar DOS versus dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) ratios of 0.
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