ImPRECISION: Limitations to Interpretation of a Large Randomized Clinical Trial Garret A. FitzGerald MD, FRS The Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Address for correspondence: Dr. FitzGerald Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics 10‐123 Smilow Center for Translational Research 3400 Ci...

BACKGROUND Adverse health effects of cadmium in adults are well documented, but little is known about the neuropsychological effects of cadmium in children, and no studies of cadmium and blood pressure in children have been conducted. OBJECTIVE We examined the potential effects of low-level cadmium exposure on intelligence quotient, neuropsychological functions, behavior, and blood pressure a...

Metals are one of five major categories of carcinogenic or toxic constituents in tobacco and tobacco smoke. Cadmium is highly volatile and a higher percentage of the total tobacco cadmium content is efficiently transferred to mainstream tobacco smoke than many other toxic metals in tobacco. Inhaled cadmium bioaccumulates in the lungs and is distributed beyond the lungs to other tissues, with a ...

Quality control is essential for any analysis in the laboratory. The objective of this study was to prepare in vivo cow control blood samples. The experiment was performed by feeding cows with a single dose of cadmium in the form of cadmium chloride, withdrawing the blood at an appropriate time to get the highest level of cadmium and detecting the level of cadmium in the blood. It was found tha...

Because of inherent genetic and physiological characteristics, the natural concentration of cadmium in the kernels of sunflowers grown in uncontaminated soils of the northern Great Plains region of the United States is higher than in most other grains. We tested the hypothesis that a habitual consumption of sunflower kernels will increase the body burden and health effects of cadmium in humans....

Robotica / Volume 31 / Issue 04 / July 2013, pp 573 588 DOI: 10.1017/S0263574712000598, Published online: 19 October 2012 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0263574712000598 How to cite this article: Xuefeng Zhou, Yisheng Guan, Li Jiang, Haifei Zhu, Chuanwu Cai, Wenqiang Wu and Hong Zhang (2013). Stability of biped robotic walking with frictional constraints. Robotica...

Cadmium is associated with industrial processes such as metal plating and the production of nickel-cadmium batteries, pigments, plastics and other synthetics. Cadmium is a potential environmental hazard. A cost effective technologies are needed to remove cadmium from the contaminated soil-water environment. Phytoremediation is a novel, cost effective and eco-friendly ‘green’ remediation technol...

PURPOSE Cadmium is a human lung carcinogen and possesses estrogen-like activity. This combination of carcinogenic and estrogenic activity makes cadmium a contaminant of high concern for hormone-related cancers. Diet and smoking are the main sources of cadmium exposure. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between dietary cadmium intake and risk of breast, endometrial and ova...

Post-mortem examinations of workers who died of cadmium poisoning after exposure to cadmium oxide fume have been reported by Baader (1951), Lane and Campbell (1954), and Bonnell (1955). Friberg (1950) and Friberg and Nystr6m (1952) reported similar examinations of workmen subjected to cadmium oxide dust. As part of a study of cadmium intoxication it was important to establish the distribution o...

Uptake of cadmium into molar enamel and dentin from rats receiving cadmium in their drinking water was markedly elevated and proportional to the amount of cadmium in the drinking water. Post-developmental cadmium did not influence caries development or alter the cariostatic effectiveness of fluoridated drinking water. The data indicate that the absolute concentration of cadmium in teeth is not ...