Erratum After publication of the original article [1], it came to the authors’ attention that there was an error in the PQ pharmacokinetics sub-section of the Background section. The following sentence is affected: “There is no PK interaction between PQ and either artesunate-pyronaridine [76] or mefloquine [69, 77]; no PK interaction data exist for PQ and artemetherlumefantrine (AL).” This sent...

Reactions of 9,10-phenanthrenequinone (PQ) in toluene with [M(II)(PPh3)3X2] at 298 K afford green complexes, trans-[M(PQ)(PPh3)2X2] (M = Ru, X = Cl, 1; M = Os, X = Br, 2) in moderate yields. Reaction of anhydrous RhCl3 with PQ and PPh3 in boiling ethanol affords the dark brown paramagnetic complex, cis-[Rh(PQ)(PPh3)2Cl2] (3) in good yields. Diffusion of iodine solution in n-hexane to the trans-...

I. The function of plastoquinone PQ in photosynthesis has been measured by absorption changes in the UV at 265 nm. These measurements have been refined by the application of the very sensi­ tive repetitive pulse technique. The reduction and oxidation of plastoquinone in chloroplasts have been measured 1. in short flashes, 2. in long flashes and 3. in double flashes. The results can be described...

BACKGROUND The present study was designed to analyze the dynamic changes in transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF-β1), interleukin (IL)-10, and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) in paraquat (PQ)-intoxicated rats and to evaluate the effects of artesunate on PQ-induced lung injury. METHODS Sixty healthy male Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were randomly assigned to the control (n = 10), PQ (n = 25)...

BACKGROUND Paraquat (PQ) is a world-wide used herbicide and also a type of common poison for suicide and accidental poisoning. Numerous studies have proved that the concentration of serum PQ plays an important role in prognosis. Spectrophotometry, including common spectrophotometry and second-derivative spectrophotometry, is commonly used for PQ detection in primary hospitals. So far, lack of s...

In the present paper we show that inhomogeneity of a continuous self-sustained oscillating medium can be a reason for the onset of chaotic behavior. It has been established that temporal chaotic dynamics typically arises in the medium with a linear mismatch of the natural frequency along a spatial coordinate, whereas a chaotic regime is not characteristic for the medium with randomly distribute...

Active power filters are used to eliminate current harmonics of non-linear loads. This paper evaluates three different methods of determining the compensating current for a shunt active filter that is working under nonsymmetrical conditions. The paper compares the instantaneous reactive power theory, the synchronous reference frame theory and fast Fourier transform techniques. The comparison is...

We introduce a class of composite axion models that provide natural solution to the strong CP problem, and possibly account for observed dark matter abundance. The QCD arises as Nambu-Goldstone boson (NGB) from dynamics chiral gauge theory with strongly-interacting confining SU(N) factor weakly-interacting U(1), no fundamental scalar fields. Peccei-Quinn (PQ) symmetry is accidental all mass sca...