background:poisoning with ethylene glycol (eg) can be fatal even if appropriate treatments are delivered. eg poisoning usually causes central nervous system depression, cardiovascular dysfunction, metabolic acidosis and acute renal failure (arf). case report:a 33-year-old man was referred to the emergency department with reduced consciousness and dyspnea of four-hour duration due to unknown rea...

background: cryopreservation of mammalian ovaries has been reported with different levels of success. cryopreservation of ovarian tissue may be a potential alternative for treatment of infertility and many attempts have been done to improve the efficiency of ovarian cryopreservation. the objective of the present study was to compare the direct cover vitrification (dcv) with ethylene glycol (eg)...

Multiwalled carbon nanotube-supported Pt (Pt/MWNT) nanocomposites were prepared by both the aqueous solution reduction of a Pt salt (HCHO reduction) and the reduction of a Pt ion salt in ethylene glycol solution. For comparison, a Pt/XC-72 nanocomposite was also prepared by the EG method. The Pt/MWNT catalyst prepared by the EG method has a high and homogeneous dispersion of spherical Pt metal ...

Wood creosote, a mixture of phenolic compounds, suppresses in vitro contractions of rat intestine. To identify a compound in wood creosote able to inhibit intestinal motility, we screened its constituent phenolic compounds and found 4-ethylguaiacol (4-EG) as an active compound. It suppressed the spontaneous phasic (IC50 = 513 +/- 48 mumol/l) as well as spasmogenic-agent-induced tonic longitudin...

The isolated North Atlantic island of Bermuda, lying 1000 km ESE of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, USA, has received scant attention from bryologists since the last compilations of nearly a century ago (EG Britton, 1918; Evans, 1918), plus a few additions (Andrews, 1923; Dixon, 1936). Of the mosses listed by EG Britton (1918), those that are not widespread in both Europe and North America are o...

Control over the doping density in copper sulfide nanocrystals is of great importance and determines its use in optoelectronic applications such as NIR optical switches and photovoltaic devices. Here, we demonstrate that we can reversibly control the hole carrier density (varying from >1022 cm-3 to intrinsic) in copper sulfide nanocrystals by electrochemical methods. We can control the type of ...

background: male infertility is affected by several factors. lead is one of the heavy metals more bioavailable than usually modifies the sperm quality in humans. objective: the aim of this study was to establish the role of lead in semen quality in environmentally exposed men. materials and methods: semen and blood samples were obtained from two groups: the exposed group (eg=20) and the non-exp...

We report the discovery of a partial ∼ 2 diameter non-thermal radio shell coincident with Taz, the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) in the error box of the apparently variable γ-ray source 3EG J1809−2328. We propose that this radio shell is a newly identified supernova remnant (SNR G7.5−1.7) associated with the PWN. The SNR surrounds an amorphous region of thermal X-rays detected in archival ROSAT and ...