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Such heavy-handed conceptual humor is a far cry from Duchamp's mercurial wit, or from the visceral delight of Meret Oppenheim's Object (1936), the famous fur-lined teacup.
Before the characterization of TEA, mercurial compounds were among the only known blockers of AQP1, affecting both the constitutive water flux and the regulated ion conductance [ 6 10 ] . For AQP1 channels expressed in Xenopus oocytes, the block of osmotic water flux is 5% in 0.01 mM TEA, 21% in 1 mM TEA, and 36% in 10 mM TEA, as referenced to the osmotic water flux in control AQP1-expressing oocytes [ 5 ] . Data presented here show that the level of block by TEA is comparable or greater for AQP1 channels expressed in mammalian cells.
Reviewing When We Were Kings, New York 's Denby says, "For younger viewers, there will be two revelations--not only the mercurial Ali but Norman Mailer at his most sympathetic and brilliant."
The cover story attributes teen-agers' mercurial behavior to underdeveloped brains.
She isn't mercurial enough to be funny: She's just a narcissistic dope, and you come to feel contempt for anyone who'd swallow her bull.