The aim of this in vitro study was to examine the secretion activity (progesterone, 17beta-estradiol and insulin-like growth factor-I) of rat ovarian fragments after molybdenum (Mo) addition. Rat ovarian fragments were incubated with ammonium molybdate (NH(4))(6)Mo(7)O(24).4H(2)O at the doses 90, 170, 330 and 500 microg.ml(-1) for 24 h and compared with control group without Mo addition. Releas...

We have developed an efficient chemoenzymatic synthesis of heparan sulfate oligosaccharides employing the para-nitrophenyl (p-NP) β-glucuronide as an acceptor compatible with enzymatic elongation and one that significantly simplifies oligosaccharide purification on C-18 resin. Employing ceric ammonium nitrate as oxidative reagent to remove the p-NP group unexpectedly also removed the glucuronic...

Effect of different nitrogenous fertilizers on the growth and yield of three years old tea (Camellia sinensis L) plants was investigated at National Tea Research Institute, Shinkiari, (Mansehra) during 2005-06. The nitrogenous fertilizers used were ammonium sulphate, calcium ammonium nitrate, urea and nitrophos along with control receiving no fertilizer. All the nitrogenous fertilizers were app...

Ammonia entry along surface nephron segments of rats was studied with micropuncture techniques under control and chronic metabolic acidosis conditions. Tubule fluid was collected successively from sites at the end and beginning of the distal tubule and at the end of the proximal tubule of the same nephron. During chronic metabolic acidosis, ammonium excretion doubled. As anticipated, the ammoni...

In static renewal experiments, we studied how developmental stage influences the effect of ammonium nitrate on embryonic and larval stages of anuran amphibians. The observed lethal effects caused by ammonium nitrate increased with both concentration and duration of exposure. Significant differences were observed in sensitivity to ammonium nitrate as a function of developmental stage in Discoglo...

The structure of the title compound, (NH4)[Cr(pydc)2] (pydc is pyridine-2,6-di-carboxyl-ate, C7H3NO4), has been determined from synchrotron data. The Cr(III) ion and the N atom of the ammonium cation are located on a crystallographic fourfold rotoinversion axis (-4). The Cr(III) cation is coordinated by four O atoms and the two N atoms of two meridional pydc ligands, displaying a distorted octa...

The effects of different doses of ammonium metavanadate on the biochemical, haematological, hormonal and histopathological parameters of stilbesterol treated female Wistar rats were investigated. Ammonium metavanadate in the dose range 0-6 mg/kg caused a bi-phasic and time-dependent response on the acid [total and prostate] phosphatase. Furthermore ammonium metavanadate caused a dose-dependent ...

the enzyme pgalactosidase from a mutant strain of a. niger uv-5 was partially purified using ammonium sulfate and acetone. the saturation range of 60-80% ammonium sulfate was found to yield 60.5% enzyme recovery with 2.4 fold purification. acetone precipitation at enzyme: acetone ratio of 1 : 1.5 brought about a higher yield i.e. 68% and three-fold purification. the combined procedures of 1.5 v...

The mechanisms of action of mineral phosphate solubilization (MPS) were studied in the wild-type Mps‡ Penicillium rugulosum strain IR94-MF1 and in negative (Mps3) and superpositive (Mps‡‡) mutants derived from it. MPS activities were measured in liquid media using sucrose as C source, four N (arginine, nitrate, nitrate+ammonium and ammonium) and P sources (KH2PO4, hydroxyapatite, FePO4 and AlPO...

The sulfonated tripodal polyaza-polycatechol-amine ligand tris(2,3-hydroxy-5-sulfobenzylamine) ethyl)amine (STRENCAT) was synthesized and its protonation constants determined by potentiometry at 25 degrees C and in 0.1 mol dm(-3) NaClO(4). In the adopted experimental conditions (2.5 < p[H(+)] < 11.5), six of the virtual thirteen protonation constants of STRENCAT were determined. The deprotonati...