The aim of this study was to assess the effects of heavy metal tolerant soil microbes inoculation on growth and metal uptake of pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum), couch grass (Triticum repens) and alfalfa (Medicago sativa) in a soil spiked (and subsequently aged) with increasing concentrations of Pb. A soil sample (soil 1) was spiked with increasing (0 to 1500 mg/kg) concentrations of Pb and in...

with the aim to examine lead tolerance of populus nigra (clone 62/154) in symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, a greenhouse experiment was carried out in a factorial randomized complete scheme with two factors 1) fungal inoculation in 4 levels (control, inoculation with glomus mosseae, inoculation with g. intraradices and inoculation with g. mosseae + g. intraradices) and 2) lead in 4 l...

Background: The effects of Pb-induced neurotoxicity have been largely established; however, the need for proper neuroprotective agents to mitigate remains vague. Objectives: This study aimed at investigating pre-treatment with vitexin and C. cajan extract against in Wistar rats. Methods: Twenty-four male rats were randomly assigned into four groups (n=6). control group was administered 0.5 mL d...

The post larvae (PL) of Macrobrachium rosenbergii (2.5 cm and 0.15g) were subjected to static renewal type acute toxicity tests against cadmium chloride (CdCl2), chromium trioxide (CrO3) and lead nitrate (Pb(NO3)2). The 96 h LC50 values were calculated to be 58.93 μg/L, 2.08 mg/L and 25.97 mg/L for CdCl2, CrO3 and Pb(NO3)2 respectively. PL were exposed to the 96 h LC50 concentrations of these h...

Elemental concentrations in tree-rings from red and white oak trees at six sites across Southern Ontario, Canada, were assessed to determine whether they passively record changes in geochemical cycling in the presence of environmental stress. Periods of stress were defined as sustained periods with elevated delta(13)C values in tree-rings relative to atmospheric CO(2) during the same period. In...

The fluctuations in pseudorapidity density are well described by Fritiof and IRIS, model for a bulk of the data at a few high multiplicity events remain unexplained. In these events, the estimated energy density is within the range of values predicated for the onset of the deconfinement phase transition. It is important to know whether fluctuations are, in fact, of statistical nature or geometr...

The problem of large-scale correlations of particles produced in high-energy collisions is discussed. Among them are, e.g., those correlations which lead to ring-like and elliptic flow shapes of individual high-multiplicity events in the polar+azimuthal angles plane. The wavelet method of analysis which allows to disentangle various patterns is proposed and applied to central Pb-Pb collisions a...

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the major grain cereals of the Indian subcontinent which face water-deficit stress for their cultivation. Seed-priming has been reported to be a useful approach to complement stress responses in plants. In the present study, seed-priming with hormonal or chemical elicitor [viz. methyl jasmonate (MJ), salicylic acid (SA), paclobutrazol (PB)] showed significant in...

BACKGROUND: Apoptosis and its modulation are crucial factors for the maintenance of liver health, allowing hepatocytes to die without provoking a potential harmful inflammatory response through a tightly controlled and regulated process. Since Kupffer cells play a key role in the maintenance of liver function, the aim of this study was to verify whether Kupffer cells are involved in the inducti...