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Background: Hypomagnesemia with secondary hypocalcemia is due to disturbed renal and intestinal magnesium (Mg 2+ ) (re)absorption. The underlying defect is a mutation in the transient receptor potential melastatin type 6 (TRPM6), a Mg 2+ -permeable ion channel expressed in the kidney and intestine. Our aim was to characterize homozygous (–/–) and heterozygous (+/–) TRPM6 knockout mice with resp...

Background: Hypomagnesemia with secondary hypocalcemia is due to disturbed renal and intestinal magnesium (Mg 2+ ) (re)absorption. The underlying defect is a mutation in the transient receptor potential melastatin type 6 (TRPM6), a Mg 2+ -permeable ion channel expressed in the kidney and intestine. Our aim was to characterize homozygous (–/–) and heterozygous (+/–) TRPM6 knockout mice with resp...

A novel axially-symmetric filter for increasing focal depth and generating an approximation to a Bessel beam is proposed. It consists of an array of rings of strength –1,0 and 1. The design is based on an analytic solution, and combines high resolution in the transverse direction with good efficiency. One presented design increases the depth of focus compared with a standard lens by more than 3...

Zhao et al. employed operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy to examine the structural change of Ni0.5Co0.5-MOF-74 during electrochemical water oxidation. Ni and Co metal nodes undergo a simultaneous transition from hydroxide oxyhydroxide analogs as higher anodic potentials are applied. Discovery more effective oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysts is critical for achieiving high rate energy...

The Eastman Chromagram apparatus was employed in thin-layer chromatographic studies involving United States species of Polymnia (Compositae). Certain technical modifications of this apparatus were made in an attempt to more efficiently saturate the chamber with vapors of the eluents. Results indicated that a critical level of reproducibility could be achieved only with modified apparatus, which...

The endophytic actinobacterial population in the roots of wheat grown in three different soils obtained from the southeast part of South Australia was investigated by terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis of the amplified 16S rRNA genes. A new, validated approach was applied to the TRFLP analysis in order to estimate, to the genus level, the actinobacterial populat...

Objectives: We assessed the current genetic evidence for the involvement of various cell types and tissue types in the aetiology of neurodegenerative diseases, especially in relation to the neuroinflammatory hypothesis of neurodegenerative diseases. Methods: We obtained large-scale genome-wide association study (GWAS) summary statistics from Parkinson’s disease (PD), Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a...