Calotropin isolated and characterized from the roots of Calotropis procera when administered to gerbils (25mg/kg b.wt) and rabbits (25mg; kg b.wt) each day for a period of 30 days inhibited the process of spermatogenesis. The population of spermatids was depleted by 65% and 94% in gerbils and rabbits. The seminiferous tubules and the Leydig cell nuclei diameters were reduced in both the species...

The metal/oxide/n-silicon tunneling diodes with hydrogen (deuterium) passivated Si/SiO2 interface are stressed under hole-injection conditions to investigate the mechanism of gate oxide degradation. Although the isotope effect on soft breakdown was previously observed in the deuterium-annealed metal/oxide/p-silicon devices, no isotope effect on the oxide soft breakdown was observed in the metal...

The determination of natural mass independent isotope variations by precise isotopic measurements of elements by multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (MC-ICP-MS) requires a detailed understanding of the instrumental mass bias. Until recently, the instrumental mass bias in MC-ICP-MS analysis was considered to be entirely mass dependent, most often corrected by an exponent...

Working with ytterbium ~Yb!, we demonstrate dual-isotope magneto-optic traps of extreme experimental simplicity yet containing either fermion-boson or boson-boson isotope pairs. Pairs studied include Yb1Yb ~a fermion-boson mixture! and Yb1Yb and Yb1Yb ~boson-boson mixtures!. Trapping is performed using the Yb (6s)S0-(6s6p) P1 transition, an uncooled thermal source, and bichromatic trapping beam...

This paper presents the effect of centrifugal load in functionally graded (FG) hollow sphere subjected to uniform magnetic field. Analytical solution for stresses and perturbation of the magnetic field vector are determined using the direct method and the power series method. The material stiffness, the magnetic permeability and the density vary continuously across the thickness direction accor...

The planar oxygen isotope effect coefficient measured as a function of hole doping in the Prand La-doped YBa2Cu3O7 (YBCO) and the Ni-doped La1.85Sr0.15CuO4 (LSCO) superconductors quantitatively and qualitatively follows the form originally proposed by Kresin andWolf [Phys. Rev. B 49, 3652 (1994)], which was derived for polarons perpendicular to the superconducting planes. Interestingly, the inv...

Efficient production of short-lived radioactive isotopes in inverse reaction kinematics is an important technique for various applications. It is particularly interesting when the isotope of interest is only a few nucleons away from a stable isotope. In this article production via charge exchange and stripping reactions in combination with a magnetic separator is explored. The relation between ...

There is a great need for quantitative assays in measuring proteins. Traditional sandwich immunoassays, largely considered the gold standard in quantitation, are associated with a high cost, long lead time, and are fraught with drawbacks (e.g. heterophilic antibodies, autoantibody interference, 'hook-effect').(1) An alternative technique is affinity enrichment of peptides coupled with quantitat...

effects on chemical shift of hydrogen bonded compounds in solution. For recent more complete reviews see [7, 8, 25] and for isotope effects primarily on intermolecular hydrogen bonding and in the solid state the papers by the Limbach group [3, 4, 33, 34]. The paper will concentrate on intrinsic isotope effects and not so much on equilibrium ones. The review will also concentrate on situations w...