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This article presents a review of the effects of sea salt on gingival tissues. The beneficial effects of sea salt are described. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It has been generally assumed that mammals have blood with a greater temperature sensitivity than ectothermic organisms. Recent results have shown that in some species of mammals, Hb displays a value of overall oxygenation enthalpy (ΔH) much less exothermic than that observed for most mammalian hemoglobins, including human adult Hb. In this respect, a very interesting case is represented by porcine blood which shows a modest effect of temperature, the temperature coefficient of its oxygen-dissociation curve being significantly lower than that of human blood. Here we report a detailed functional characterization of pig Hb, which, interpreted on the basis of the amino acid sequence of the α and β chains of the molecule, sheds some light on the molecular basis of the phenomenon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The crystallization properties of the hemolysate and of the purified hemoglobin components from Wistar rat have been studied under various experimental conditions. The results suggest the existence of hemoglobins in the crystalline state even within the red blood cells. However the functional properties of rat erythrocytes are identical to those of whole hemotysate in solution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]