1. Rat gut perfusion studies in vivo at pH 4, 6 or 8 using aluminium chloride or equimolar aluminium chloride and sodium citrate showed that elevated plasma aluminium concentrations were associated with aluminium solubility in the perfusion. Elevated plasma aluminium levels and soluble aluminium in the perfusate occurred with perfusion of equimolar aluminium chloride and sodium citrate at all t...

the effects of aluminium and aluminium-citrate on some serum parameters related to carbohydrate metabolism in male wistar rats were investigated. daily intraperitoneal administrations of 1 mg/kg body weight of aluminium or aluminiumcitrate (1: 1) for 50 days led to the elevation of serum insulin by 24 or 40 percent respectively, with the concomitant decrease in serum glucose concentrations by 1...

Aluminum phosphide is commonly used as a rodenticide and insecticide and is one of the most fatal poisons. The active ingredient is Phosphine gas which inhibits cytochrome oxidase and cellular oxygen utilization. The clinical symptoms are due to multiorgan involvement including cardiac toxicity which is the most common cause of mortality. Severity of clinical manifestations depends upon the amo...

Zinc phosphide has been used widely as a rodenticide. Upon ingestion, it gets converted to phosphine gas in the body, which is subsequently absorbed into the bloodstream through the stomach and the intestines and gets captured by the liver and the lungs. Phosphine gas produces various metabolic and nonmetabolic toxic effects. Clinical symptoms are circulatory collapse, hypotension, shock sympto...

Abstract Population control of the house mouse ( Mus musculus ), Norway rat Rattus norvegicus ) and black rattus is common practice worldwide. Our objective was to assess impact on animal welfare lethal non-lethal methods, including three dispatch methods. We used Sharp Saunders assessment model with eight experts scoring eleven methods species. presumed were performed as prescribed, only takin...

We present a 32 channel indium phosphide integrated pulse shaper with 25 GHz channel spacing, where each channel is equipped with a semiconductor optical amplifier allowing for programmable line-by-line gain control with submicrosecond reconfigurability. We critically test the integrated pulse shaper by using it in comb-based RF-photonic filtering experiments where the precise gain control is l...

Aerosol-assisted chemical vapour deposition (AACVD) of Cd[(SePiPr2)2N]2 is shown to deposit cadmium selenide and/or cadmium phosphide on glass substrates, depending upon the growth conditions. The phase, structure, morphology and composition of the films were characterised by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive X-ray analysis and X-ray photoelectron s...

The kinetics of tertiarybutylphosphine adsorption and phosphorus desorption from indium phosphide (001) have been determined using reflectance difference spectroscopy for real-time monitoring of the phosphorus coverage. The precursor adsorption rate depends linearly on the coverage, and the initial sticking coefficient varies from 0.007 to 0.001 as the temperature increases from 420 to 520 C. T...

Using a femtosecond pulsed laser, ultrafast electrical pulses were optoelectronically generated on silicon and indium phosphide by edge illumination of a coplanar transmission line. Backing up theory with experiment, we demonstrate that this pulse-generation method is material independent, thus providing a powerful tool for broadband characterization of devices made on a wide range of semicondu...