BACKGROUND This study examines the dual role of Escherichia coli in the course of ulcerative colitis (UC). The intestinal microbiota is considered to play an important role in UC pathogenesis, but how E. coli contributes to inflammation in UC is still unknown. On the one hand, we demonstrated that there was a significant increase in the number of E. coli at the sites of inflammation in patients...

available online at http://meteoritics.org AUTHOR’S PROOF 981 © The Meteoritical Society, 2008. Printed in USA. Yellow impact glass from the K/T boundary at Beloc (Haiti): XANES determination of the Fe oxidation state and implications for formation conditions Gabriele GIULI1*, Sigrid Griet EECKHOUT2, Christian KOEBERL3, Giovanni PRATESI4, 5, and Eleonora PARIS1 1Dipartimento di Scienze della Te...

Thermoplastic linear ionomer based on sulphonated poly(etherurethane)—styrene-acrylate copolymer, doped with natural Fe2+, was studied by Mössbauer spectroscopy at T = 78 and 290 K to monitor the chemical state of Fe species. The Fe2+ added to aqueous suspension of the system was only partly oxidised in the course of polymer film preparation and drying in air. The oxidised part comprised a magn...

Previous research showed that the heme-requiring human pathogen Haemophilus influenzae lacks the first six of the seven enzymes required for heme synthesis, starting with the precursor, 5-amino levulinic acid. In this study, I demonstrated either directly or by reasonable inference that all 57 strains of H. influenzae examined, including 2 unable to grow on protoporphyrin IX, possess ferrochela...

Mixed Mg-Mn ferrites of compositions Mg0.9 Mn0.1 Inx Fe2-x O4 and Mg0.9 Mn0.1 Aly Fe2-y O4 have been synthesized by the citrate precursor technique. The X-ray diffraction patterns of the samples confirmed the formation of single-phase spinel structure. The ferrites have been investigated for their electric and dielectric properties. The dc resistivity and Curie temperature were found to be incr...

Two commonly used hydrophobic and hydrophilic spin traps for NO, namely Fe2+(DETC)(2)and Fe2+(MGD)(2), respectively, were analyzed via EPR spectroscopy. EPR spectra of trapped NO, together with field position standards, were recorded both in the frozen state and at room temperature. We present a detailed characterization of the EPR spectra of the above paramagnetic NO complexes, concerning g-va...

Two new dinuclear iron(II) complexes (1·PF6 and 1·AsF6) of the general formula [Fe2(L2)2](X)4·nH2O·mMeCN (X = PF6, n = m = 1.5 for 1·PF6 and X = AsF6, n = 3, m = 1 for 1·AsF6) have been prepared and structurally characterized, where L2C3 is a bis-1,2,3-triazolimine type Schiff-base ligand, 1,1′-[propane-1,3-diylbis(1H-1,2,3-triazole-1,4-diyl)]bis{N-[2-(pyridin-2-yl)ethyl]methanimine}. Single cr...

Surfactant dysfunction in acute lung injury has been postulated as a result of free radical damage to lipid and protein components. This study examines whether transition metals with different redox potentials and different binding affinities for lipids and proteins affect interfacial properties differently. Purified whole calf lung surfactant (CLS) was incubated with 0.125 mM Fe2+, Fe3+, Fe3+-...

This paper presents experimental analysis and results of GaN (being a III-V semiconductor) doped with Ferrite elements synthesized using Sol-Gel technique which are carried out at National Chemical Laboratory, Pune Maharashtra. The GaN is employed as dopant for x=1 and x=5, in the formula Ga(2x) N Fe2(49-x) O3 . A non-spinel ferrite system ( Fe2 O3) is chosen for our study. The XRD (Structural)...