Abstract Introduction The African Copperbelt is a site of intense artisanal and industrial mining refining copper cobalt. Based on preliminary case-control study erectile dysfunction among mineworkers in the former Katanga province Democratic Republic Congo (Musa et al. Occupational Environmental Medicine 2020), Objective We further investigated possible factors associated with cobalt miners pr...

Although the erythropoietic effect of cobalt has been amply demonstrated in experimental animals (1-3), in normal human beings (4, 5), and in certain types of anemia (4, 6-8), the mechanism of this increased blood formation has not been elucidated. No evidence has been adduced that administration of cobalt causes a decrease in oxygen capacity (9) or alters the oxygen dissociation curve (10, 11)...

Self-subunit swapping is one of the post-translational maturation of the cobalt-containing nitrile hydratase (Co-NHase) family of enzymes. All of these NHases possess a gene organization of <β-subunit> <α-subunit> , which allows the activator protein to easily form a mediatory complex with the α-subunit of the NHase after translation. Here, we discovered that the incorporatio...

PURPOSE To identify the molecular mechanism of steroid-induced downregulation of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) synthesis in Müller cells. METHODS Confluent cultures of human Müller cells (MIO-M1) were treated with 100 microM CoCl(2), 1 microg/mL triamcinolone acetonide (TA), or both. VEGF secretion was measured with respect to time by ELISA. VEGF mRNA quantity and stability were a...

the synthesis of nano- structured cobalt through a controlled chemical process followed by heat treating at various temperatures is studied. the product is characterized by icp, xrd, fesem , and tem, indicating that the as- synthesized particles have an amorphous structure with 1.76 for co/b ratio, an average size of 50 nm. the transformation of intermediate phases into single phase nano- cryst...

The potential of carbon nanotubes (CNT) supported cobalt catalysts for Fischer-Tropsch (FT) reaction is shown. Using the wet impregnation method cobalt on carbon nanotubes catalysts were prepared with cobalt loading varying from 15 to 45 wt. %. The catalysts are characterized by different methods including: BET physisorption, X-ray diffraction, hydrogen chemisorption, and temperature-progra...

background: one of the methods used for joining metals together is welding, which can be carried out using different techniques such as electric spot welding. this study evaluated the effect of electric spot welding on the load defl ection rate of stainless steel and chromium-cobalt orthodontic wires. materials and methods: in this experimental-laboratory study, load defl ection rate of 0.016 ×...

The transformation of enynes under cobalt-catalysis leads to symmetrical benzannulation products in dichloromethane. In tetrahydrofuran the cobalt-catalysed reactions afforded the unprecedented unsymmetrical benzannulation products in moderate to good yields and good regioselectivities. In addition, cyclotrimerisation of the alkyne subunit can be realised when electron-deficient enynes are appl...