Chronic low dose inorganic arsenic exposure causes cells to take on an epithelial-to-mesenchymal phenotype, which is a crucial process in carcinogenesis. Inorganic arsenic is not a mutagen and thus epigenetic alterations have been implicated in this process. Indeed, during the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition, morphologic changes to cells correlate with changes in chromatin structure and ge...

Copper (Cu) plays an essential role in the human and animal body system. One of the most important sources of Cu is milk. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of different doses of injection of inorganic Cu and organic Cu as Cu-arginine and Cu-lysine on Cu concentrations of milk in the lactating Zandi’s ewes. This experimental research involved 54 lactating Zandi’s ewes collect...

Organic–inorganic hybrids offer great promise as solution-processable thermoelectric materials. However, they have struggled to surpass the performance of their rigid inorganic counterparts due, in part, a lack synthetic control and limited understanding how nanostructure dimensions impact overall charge transport. While it has been hypothesized that length, diameter, aspect ratio (AR) all elec...

An 'anomalous' negative flux, in which carbon dioxide (CO2) enters rather than is released from the ground, was studied in a saline/alkaline soil. Soil sterilization disclosed an inorganic process of CO2 dissolution into (during the night) and out of (during the day) the soil solution, driven by variation in soil temperature. Experimental and modeling analysis revealed that pH and soil moisture...

abstracta pot study was conducted in order to evaluate the effect of plant growth promoting rhizobia (pgpr) on canola growth and ionic composition under salt stress conditions, was conducted as factorial in randomized complete block design with three replications. salinity in four levels of 0, 3, 6 &9 ds/m were evaluated with mixture of salts nacl & mgcl2. canola seeds were inoculated with sele...

Although both organic and inorganic nitrates/nitrites mediate their principal effects via nitric oxide, there are many important differences. Inorganic nitrate and nitrite have simple ionic structures and are produced endogenously and are present in the diet, whereas their organic counterparts are far more complex, and, with the exception of ethyl nitrite, are all medicinally synthesised produc...

Renal disposition of administered inorganic mercury was studied in rats that had undergone an acute bilateral ureteral ligation shortly before being injected with a nontoxic 0.5-micromol/kg iv dose of inorganic mercury with or without 2.0 micromol/kg glutathione (GSH) or cysteine. Ureteral ligation and induction of "stop-flow" conditions were carried out to decrease glomerular filtration rate t...

When blood undergoes glycolysis at 37 ~ C, in addition to the loss of blood sugar, there are accompanying changes in the inorganic phosphorus. This relationship has been investigated and reported by a number of authors (2, 8, 9, 10). They agree that during the first 4 hours of glycolysis, the inorganic phosphorus of the blood in normal individuals either remains at a constant level, or is only ...