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Suspensions of motile bacteria or synthetic microswimmers, termed active matter, manifest a remarkable propensity for self-organization, and formation of large-scale coherent structures. Most active matter res...
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The importance of microrheology in the study of biological systems has a long and rich history, tracing its roots to the work of the botanist Robert Brown in the early nineteenth century. Indeed, passive micro...
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Previous work has shown an increase in rat liver enzyme activities after chronic exposure to gasoline vapor. In the present study, male Sprague-Dawley rats were pretreated with unleaded gasoline at 1 and 5 ml/...
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Exposure to methyltertiary-butyl ether (MTBE), a commonly used octane booster in gasoline, has previously been shown to alter various muscle, kidney, and liver metabolic activities. In the present study, the meta...
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The molecular diffusivity of a tracer species in a given medium is a measure of the average spread of the tracer due to fluctuations in its velocity on the molecular scale. In a medium that is heterogeneous on...
