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Absorption and noise in cesium iodide x-ray image intensifiers.

The measured and theoretically predicted values of detective quantum efficiency (DQE) for a CsI x-ray image intensifier are compared for nine monoenergetic beams of x rays. The agreement between measurement and theory of better than +/- 5% indicates that we have a sound understanding of the physical parameters controlling the DQE. It is shown that the fraction of K-fluorescent x rays escaping from the input phosphor is independent of incident energy. The number of electrons released within the x-ray image intensifier (XRII) by an incident x ray has been measured. The mechanism for energy broadening within the XRII is shown to be predominantly the limited number of electrons and not light absorption.

Cesium↗

Ribosomes: analysis by cesium sulfate gradient centrifugation.

Ribosomes from the cytoplasm of a mammalian tissue, HeLa cells, were partially purified and then concentrated into a zone by prolonged centrifugation in Cs(2)SO(4) solution (density, 1.43 grams per milliliter). Ribosomal preparations treated with bentonite prior to density-gradient centrifugation showed single peaks after centrifugation. Material recovered from the peaks represented aggregates of the original 74S particle.

Aluminum Silicates↗

Correlation of melting temperature and cesium chloride buoyant density of bacterial deoxyribonucleic acid.

Samples of bacterial deoxyribonucleic acid from bacteria having guanine plus cytosine (GC) contents in the range of 27 to 72 moles per cent GC were analyzed by optical melting (T(m)) and equilibrium buoyant density methods. The relation between these properties is shown to be linear. The relative value of 1.99 moles per cent GC per degree C change in T(m) is calculated, and a reference method for the calculation of GC contents relative to a standard is derived.

Cesium↗

Specific cesium transport via the Escherichia coli Kup (TrkD) K+ uptake system.

Escherichia coli cells which contain a functional Kup (formerly TrkD) system took up Cs+ with a moderate rate and affinity. Kup is a separate K+ uptake system with relatively little discrimination in the transport of the cations K+, Rb+, and Cs+. Regardless of the presence or absence of Kup, K+-replete cells took up Cs+ primarily by a very low affinity mode, proportional to the ratio of the Cs+ and K+ concentrations in the medium.

Binding, Competitive↗

Internal cesium ions block various K conductances in spinal motoneurons.

Conventional intracellular recording with low resistance electrodes was used to examine the effects of iontophoretic injections of Cs+ ions (30-200 nA for 30-500 s) into spinal motoneurons of cats anesthetized with pentobarbital and paralyzed with gallamine. The most striking effects of internal Cs+ were a great prolongation of the falling phase of action potentials, a large reduction in the amplitude of their afterhyperpolarizations, and a considerable increase in the size of delayed depolarizations. A reduction of resting membrane conductance (up to half of control values) and a small increase in membrane potential usually were evident. Although the rate of rise and amplitude of spikes sometimes were increased, the above effects on membrane properties usually were accompanied by block of antidromic invasion or synaptic spike generation, and inactivation of directly evoked spikes. Recovery of spike genesis was very rapid but the prolongation of spikes and other effects of Cs+ lasted 4-35 min, depending on the amount of Cs+ application. Larger injections of Cs+ resulted in greater depolarizations of up to 13 mV. It is concluded that internal Cs+ ions block voltage-dependent K+ conductance of spike repolarization, the Ca2+-activated K+ conductance responsible for the afterhyperpolarization, and some of the K+ conductance responsible for the resting potential. It is suggested that the enhanced delayed depolarization may result from a Cs+-blockade of an early outward K+ current which would unmask an inward current of Ca2+ ions.

Action Potentials↗

Afterdepolarization mechanism in the in vitro, cesium-loaded, sympathetic preganglionic neuron of the cat.

Intracellular recordings were performed in Cs-loaded sympathetic preganglionic neurons (SPNs) of the intermediolateral nucleus, identified by antidromic stimulation, in the slice of the T2 or T3 segment of the cat spinal cord. Loading the neurons with Cs resulted in broadening of the action potential, depression of the fast component of the afterhyperpolarization (AHP), and appearance of an afterdepolarization (ADP). A typical ADP in a Cs-loaded neuron had time to peak of 45-110 ms, half-decay time of 70-250 ms, and amplitude of 2-10 mV at membrane potentials between -60 and -70 mV and at a Ca and K concentration of 2.5 and 3.6 mM, respectively, in the superfusion medium. The ADP was associated with a decrease in neuron input resistance and increased in magnitude with hyperpolarization of the cell membrane. The relation between peak ADP amplitude and membrane potential was linear within the range of membrane potentials from -60 to -100 mV. The ADP was reversibly suppressed by the Ca-channel blocker cobalt (2 mM) or by low Ca Krebs solution (0.25 mM). Superfusion with BaCl2 (1.0 mM) or tetraethylammonium (TEA) (10-20 mM) caused an increase in amplitude of the ADP and an increase in action potential duration. Hyperpolarizing pulses, delivered during the course of the spike shoulder, resulted in a decrease of spike duration and ADP amplitude. The ADP was not affected by tetrodotoxin, at a dose blocking the Na-spike, and was enhanced, in association with an increase in action potential duration, when NaCl in the Krebs solution was replaced with choline chloride. Increasing intracellular Cl concentration or decreasing extracellular Cl concentration had no effect on the ADP. Changes in external K concentration from 3.6 to 10 or 0.36 mM increased and decreased, respectively, the amplitude of the ADP. In the absence of Cs, and ADP, with similar time course to that recorded in Cs-loaded SPNs, was recorded when CaCl2 was replaced by BaCl or NaCl was replaced by TEAC1. It is concluded that the SPN afterpotential includes a Ca-dependent inward current, in addition to the already described fast and slow outward K currents of the AHP.

Action Potentials↗