Asthmatics are known to react to inhaled hyperosmolar solution. Therefore, the effect of hyperosmolar salt solutions on tight junctions of the airway epithelium was investigated by electron microscopy. Rat trachea was perfused with different concentrations of sodium chloride (NaCl) and then fixed from the luminal side with glutaraldehyde to which the electron dense tracer lanthanum chloride had...

The ternary title compound, dipotassium lanthanum penta-chloride, K(2)LaCl(5), is isotypic with Y(2)HfS(5) and various ternary rare-earth metal(III) halides with the general formula A(2)MX(5) (A = NH(4), In(I), Na-Cs; M = La-Dy; X = Cl-I). The La(3+) cations and three of the four symmetry-independent chloride anions are located on a crystallographic mirror plane. The La(3+) cations are surround...

The results from this study illustrate the first time electrospray ionization-ion mobility spectrometry (ESI-IMS) has been used to separate inorganic cations in aqueous solutions. Using ESI-IMS nine inorganic cation solutions were analyzed. Counter ions affected both the sensitivity and the identity of the response ions. Aluminum sulfate, lanthanum chloride, strontium chloride, uranyl acetate, ...

0009-2614/$ see front matter 2010 Published by doi:10.1016/j.cplett.2010.05.037 * Corresponding author. Address: Department of C fornia, D31 Hildebrand, Berkeley, CA 94720-1460, US E-mail address: [email protected] (R.J. Saykal X-ray absorption spectra of 1 M aqueous solutions of indium(III) chloride, yttrium(III) bromide, lanthanum(III) chloride, tin(IV) chloride and chromium(III) chloride...

5- Amino -3- [4- O- hydroxypheny Ithiosemi carbazido ] -1,2,4-thiadiazole compound has been prepared by the reaction of ( 3-mercapto -5- ami,2,4- thiadiazole) with O-hydroxyphenyl thiosemicarbazide) in mole ratios (1:1) .The ligand characterized and its structure was elucidated depending upon spectral data IR U.V-Vis spectra . Lanthanum complex formula [La( C9H10N6S2O)2Cl2]Cl through lanthanum ...

We describe an unusual application of synchrotron energy-dispersive diffraction with hard X-rays to obtain structural information on metastable sodium sulfate heptahydrate. This hydrate was often mentioned in nineteenth and early twentieth century scientific literature but rarely in modern publications, and it had not been characterised structurally. Using a unique three-detector fixed-angle X-...

Vascular calcification (VC) is frequent prevalence in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and atherosclerosis. Lanthanum carbonate is used as an orally administered phosphate-binding agent to reduce the gastrointestinal absorption of phosphate and ameliorate VC in advanced CKD. In this study, we used bovine vascular smooth muscle cells as a model VC in vitro and studied the effects of la...

Transepithelial movement of water and solute occurs both through the cell membrane as well as across the intercellular junctional complex (paracellular shunt pathways). Permeability of paracellular shunt pathways is increase by transmucosal osmotic gradients, and in certain epithelia these changes are associated with bullous-like deformations (blisters) of the zonula occludens and localization ...