Gallium is presently used in the diagnosis of inflammatory, granulomatous, and neoplastic lung disease despite its many logistical problems. In contrast, thallium-201 scintigraphy, which was initially developed for myocardial imaging, offers the principal advantage of immediate imaging and diagnosis although it had not been investigated previously for use in pulmonary disease. In this study, th...

The dilithium diamide reagent obtained from N,N'-di('butyl)-l,4-diazabutadiene and two equivalents of lithium metal reacts with anhydrous gallium trichloride in tetrahydrofuran / hexane, followed by treatment with metallic potassium, to give the title compound in about 40% yield. Cyclic imides of gallium(III) and gallium(II) are by-products of this process. The structure of Li{[ds-C 2 H2 (N'Bu)...

The purpose of this study was to test a gallium nitrate solution, a resorption inhibitor, employed as a root canal dressing in teeth submitted to late replantation. Thirty maxillary right central incisors of rats were avulsed and kept dry for thirty minutes. The teeth were instrumented and the root surfaces were treated with 1% hypochlorite solution followed by application of 2% sodium fluoride...

When were they discovered? As early as the 1960s, there was evidence that under certain conditions protein molecules might have properties intermediate between the rigid native and fully unfolded states. The concept of such a protein as an intermediate in protein folding was suggested by the late Oleg Ptitsyn in the 1970s. A compact, partly folded protein was first observed experimentally in th...

In this paper, tetragonal chalcopyrite (CIGS) Cu(InxGa1-x)Se2 with x=0, 0.5, 0.8, 1 are synthesized by heating-up method. These nanoparticle structures differ in morphology and absorption properties due to the synthesis temperatures of 250, 255, 260, 265, 270 and 280 ºC, and gallium molar ratio over the total gallium and indium contents. These features are studied using scanning electron m...

Ga self-diffusion in gallium phosphide ~GaP! is measured directly in isotopically controlled GaP heterostructures. Secondary ion mass spectroscopy ~SIMS! is used to monitor intermixing of Ga and Ga between isotopically pure GaP epilayers which are grown by molecular beam epitaxy ~MBE! on GaP substrates. The Ga self-diffusion coefficient in undoped GaP is determined to be D52.0 cm s exp(24.5 eV/...

The concept of protein folding is directly related with the process of reversible disorder-toorder transitions, by which an unfolded polypeptide chain folds into a specific functional native structure (Eaton et al., 2000; Rose et al., 2006). For folding into a native state, unfolded polypeptide chains require the intervention of weak interactions. Driven by hydrophobic interactions, a polypepti...