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Where CcO 2 is the pulmonary capillary oxygen content, CaO 2 is the arterial oxygen content, and CvO 2 is the mixed venous oxygen content.
Cao and Sudhof [56] have recently discovered that the APP C-terminal fragment generated by α- or β-secretase is itself cleaved to release Aβ and an APP intracellular domain (AICD) that diffuses into the nucleus, possibly acting there as a transcription factor.
Quicklime is quick (that is, alive, as in the quick and the dead) because it is anhydrous (Greek for unwatered) and soaks up water with a vengeance to make slaked lime (calcium hydroxide, Ca(OH)2, from CaO + H2O), which is what makes quicklime so useful as the binding agent in mortar, cement, and concrete.
Other ubiquitous calcium compounds include gypsum—calcium sulfate (CaSO4;), which is what sheetrock is made of— and the active binding agent in cement, quicklime— Calcium oxide (CaO), produced by cooking limestone in a lime kiln (the primitive version, a lime rick —compare hay-rick , a variant of haystack —was a heap of earth with the stone and a fire kept going inside it—whence the name of the town in Ireland by which the doggerel verse-form is called as well ).