A collection of 155 accessions of ancient Portuguese common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) was evaluated in relation to the content of 8 minerals (Zn, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ca, Mg, P and K) important for human nutrition. A high degree of variability for P, Fe, Zn, Cu, Mn and Ca was observed in the collection. Total correlation matrix analysis revealed the existence of two important sets of strong positive...

Protection from oxidative damage is sufficiently important that biology has evolved three independent enzymes for hastening superoxide dismutation: the Cu- and Zn-containing superoxide dismutases (Cu,Zn-SODs), the SODs that are specific for Fe or Mn or function with either of the two (Fe-SODs, Mn-SODs or Fe/Mn-SODs), and the SODs that use Ni (Ni-SODs). Despite the overwhelming similarities betw...

In this work, the structure and mechanical properties of innovative Al-Cu-Fe based alloys were studied. We focused on preparation and characterization of rapidly solidified and hot extruded Al-Cu-Fe, Al-Cu-Fe-Ni and Al-Cu-Fe-Cr alloys. The content of transition metals affects mechanical properties and structure. For this reason, microstructure, phase composition, hardness and thermal stability ...

doi: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2006.00809.x Among the Arabidopsis thaliana accessions Columbia (Col), Landsberg erecta (Ler), and Wassilewskija (Ws), Ler and Ws showed higher copper (Cu) tolerance than Col, while accumulating more Cu. Thus, Cu tolerance did not appear to be related to metal exclusion. Rather, the higher Cu tolerance of Ler and Ws may reflect less Cu-induced nutrient deficiency as the...

Maintaining brain Cu homeostasis is vital for normal brain function. The role of systemic Fe deficiency (FeD) or overload (FeO) due to metabolic diseases or environmental insults in Cu homeostasis in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and brain tissues remains unknown. This study was designed to investigate how blood-brain barrier (BBB) and blood-SCF barrier (BCB) regulated Cu transport and how FeO ...

Six-week-old male Wistar rats were administrated the radioisotopes of five trace elements (iron, zinc, copper, manganese and iodine) intravenously in order to elucidate the significance of their pharmacokinetics by noncompartmental analysis. The mean residence time (MRT) and variance of residence time (VRT) increased in the order Mn, Cu, I, Fe and Zn. Neither MRT nor VRT indicated any statistic...

The environmental radial distribution functions (RDFs) around Cu and Fe as well as the ordinary R D F of an as-quenched Al 6 5 Cu 2 0 Fe 1 5 alloy have been determined by anomalous x-ray scattering (AXS) and conventional x-ray diffraction techniques. The experimental information indicates that a strong directional dependence along the symmetrical axes exists for the Cu atoms but not for the Fe ...

The crystal structure of four synthetic samples of melanterite, (Fe,Cu)SO4 •7H2O, and six natural samples of melanterite and one of zinc-melanterite from the Richmond mine, Iron Mountain, California, has been refined in space group P21/c. The structure refinements show that substitution of Cu for Fe at the M2 site distorts the octahedron in a square-planar fashion. This behavior is attributed t...

The size, number density and compositions of ultrafine copper /manganese precipitates that form in Fe /0.80at.% Cu and Fe / 0.78at.% Cu /1.05at.% Mn model alloys that were neutron irradiated to a fluence of /1 /10 nm 2 (E /1 MeV) at 288 8C have been estimated by atom probe tomography and small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) experiments. The number density of precipitates was approximately an o...

Nano-CuFe2O4 catalysts with different Cu/Fe molar ratios (CunFemO(n+1.5m)) were prepared by hydrothermal method. The thermal decomposition performance of CunFemO(n+1.5m) on CuSO4 were determined with TG-DSC method to evaluate its catalytic activity and the roasted product was characterized by ...