Low circulating levels of total 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) have been associated with an increased risk of adverse effects after cardiac surgery. The metabolites, 25(OH)D2 and 25(OH)D3, provide a good index of vitamin D status. In this study, we examined the association between preoperative plasma levels of total 25(OH)D, 25(OH)D2 and 25(OH)D3 and the risk of postoperative atrial fibrillation...

In this study, we determined the residue levels and patterns of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and hydroxylated PCBs (OH-PCBs) in the blood from eight species of toothed whales and three species of baleen whales stranded along the Japanese coast during 1999–2007. Pentathrough heptachlorinated congeners were the dominant homolog groups in all cetaceans. In contrast, specific differences in the...

background: the most reliable indicator of vitamin d status is circulating concentration of 25‑hydroxycalciferol (25(oh) d) routinely determined by enzyme‑immunoassays (eia) methods. this study was performed to compare commonly used competitive protein‑binding assays (cpba)‑based eia with the gold standard, high‑pressure liquid chromatography (hplc). methods: concentrations of 25(oh) d in sera ...

koenenite=[mg7ai4(oh)22]4+.[na4(ca,mg)2ci12]4- , is a typical non-silicate clay mineral of oceanic salt deposits which also widely occurs in salt clay, anhydrite, halite, and potash-bearing rocks. koenenite is found as an undesirable sludge-forming component in the processing of potassium salts . koenenite was first reported, in 1902, as an impurity in a fairly pure halite from the justus! pota...

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The approximate solubility products of the calcium salts of ten unconjugated bile acids and several taurine conjugated bile acids were determined. The formation of micelles, gels, and/or precipitates in relation to Ca2+,Na+, and bile salt concentration was summarized by "phase maps." Because the ratio of Ca2+ to bile salt in the precipitates was ca. 1:2, and the activity of Ca2+ but not that of...

Hydroxylated polychlorinated biphenyls (OH-PCBs) are formed as major metabolites of PCBs by cytochrome P450 enzyme-mediated oxidation. It has been reported that their total concentration in serum samples of Yusho patients ranged from 390 to 1300 pg/g. We measured the concentration of OH-PCBs in blood collected from 183 Yusho patients living in Japan in 2010. The major OH-PCB metabolites were 4-...

The precision of spectrophotometric measurements of indicator absorbance ratios is sufficient to allow evaluation of small isotopically induced differences in the dissociation constant of boric acid (KB). The quotient of KB and KB, obtained using isotopically X99% pure borate/boric acid buffers, provides an equilibrium constant for the reaction B(OH)3+ B(OH)4 3B(OH)3+ B(OH)4 which heretofore ha...