PURPOSE To quantify the effect of posture on intracranial physiology in humans by MRI, and demonstrate the relationship between intracranial compliance (ICC) and pressure (ICP), and the pulsatility of blood and CSF flows. MATERIALS AND METHODS Ten healthy volunteers (29+/-7 years old) were scanned in the supine and sitting positions using a vertical gap MRI scanner. Pulsatile blood and CSF fl...

Laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) was used to study the spatially-resolved distribution of ruthenium and platinum in viscera (liver, kidney, spleen, and muscle) originating from mice treated with the investigational ruthenium-based antitumor compound KP1339 or cisplatin, a potent, but nephrotoxic clinically-approved platinum-based anticancer drug. Method de...

Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) is a disease characterized by generalized pruritus and biochemical cholestasis that appears typically during the last trimester of gestation. The most predictive and accurate markers for diagnosis and follow-up of ICP are increased total bile acid levels (above 11,0 micromol/L), enhanced cholic acid percentage (above 42%) and decreased glycine/taurine...

Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP), also known as obstetric cholestasis, is a liver disease of pregnancy that complicates 0.7% of pregnancies in the UK. 2 ICP causes maternal pruritus and hepatic impairment and can cause fetal death, spontaneous prematurity, and sudden intrauterine death. A diagnosis of ICP is made by the demonstration of abnormal liver function test results, and in pa...

Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP), also known as obstetric cholestasis, is a liver disease of pregnancy that complicates 0.7% of pregnancies in the UK. 2 ICP causes maternal pruritus and hepatic impairment and can cause fetal death, spontaneous prematurity, and sudden intrauterine death. A diagnosis of ICP is made by the demonstration of abnormal liver function test results, and in pa...

Measurement of arsenic (As) in biological samples such as urine has important clinical applications and is being undertaken more frequently in epidemiologic studies because of concern about the carcinogenicity of low to moderate levels of As exposure. The objective of this study was to evaluate and improve the accuracy of As determination in urine by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry...

The influence of the concentration of1-H-benzoteriazolon the corrosion of 316 stainless steel (SS) in chloride acid 1M solutions was studied. The potentiodynamics polarization and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) have been used. The inhibition efficiency increased with an increase in the concentration of1-H-benzoteriazol.The adsorption of1-H-benzoteriazol onto the SS surface occurs accord...

Inorganic compounds in biomass, often referred to as ash, are known to be problematic in the thermochemical conversion of biomass to bio-oil or syngas and, ultimately, hydrocarbon fuels because they negatively influence reaction pathways, contribute to fouling and corrosion, poison catalysts, and impact waste streams. The most common ash-analysis methods, such as inductively coupled plasma-opti...

A production-scale ionized physical vapor deposition ~I-PVD! source has been developed to investigate the directional metalization of 200 mm diameter wafers by sputtering. The ionization of sputtered metal is accomplished by a 45 cm diameter inductively coupled plasma ~ICP!. Unlike previously reported I-PVD sources, however, the coil of the ICP is external to the plasma chamber. A plasma-immers...

the effect of vanillin on the corrosion behavior of aa6061 al alloy in 3.5% nacl solution wasinvestigated using potentiodynamic polarization and electrochemical noise (en) techniques. vanillinoffers interesting possibilities for corrosion inhibition due to its nontoxicity and high solubility inaqueous media. the best inhibition effect at 200 ppm vanillin was a marked characteristic of theinhibi...