This study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of phytoremediation on a tailing dam located in Shimen County, Hunan Province. Quadrat survey method was employed to investigate and sample the dominant plant species growing on the rehabilitated tailing dam. The fertilities of the soils were assessed, and concentrations of arsenic and other heavy metals in the plant and soil samples were mea...

The toxicology of a potentially useful antitumor agent, 2,4-diamino-5-adamantyl-6-methylpyrimidine (DAMP), and its ethanesulfonate salt has been studied in beagle dogs after 1 to 20 doses. Two types of toxicity could be discerned: the acute central nervous system toxicity manifested by vomiting, convulsions, and minor hypothermia; and the antiproliferative toxicity, similar to that of other fol...

Lack of empirical evidence that living in damp houses has detrimental effects on health may partly be due to inadequate research. A preliminary study was therefore carried out of a random sample of council owned residences in a deprived area of Edinburgh, a respondent from consenting households being interviewed to obtain a profile of the physical and mental health of all adults and children. I...

Aluminium-based adjuvants (ABAs) have been used in human and veterinary vaccines for decades, and for a long time, the adjuvant properties were believed to be mediated by an antigen depot at the injection site, prolonging antigen exposure to the immune system. The depot hypothesis is today more or less abandoned, and instead replaced by the assumption that ABAs induce an inflammation at the inj...

We report the synthesis of a probe that permits the visualization by electron microscopy of acidic organelles in intact cells. This probe, 3-(2,4-dinitroanilino)-3'-amino-N-methyldipropylamine (DAMP), is a basic congener of dinitrophenol that readily diffuses into intact cells. Its primary and tertiary amino groups (apparent pKa, 10.6) allow it to be concentrated in acidic organelles and to be ...

This paper investigates the impact of service quality in e-tailing on site visits and consumer demand (approximated by the last-clickthrough concept). We use a large representative data set obtained from a price-comparison site which covers most of the national (Austrian) market on e-tailing. Customers’ valuations for a broad range of 15 different service characteristics are condensed by factor...

Mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, a frequent cause of childhood (hepato)encephalomyopathies, is defined as a reduction of mitochondrial DNA copy number related to nuclear DNA. It was previously shown that mtDNA depletion can be prevented by dAMP/dGMP supplementation in deoxyguanosine kinase-deficient fibroblasts. We investigated myotubes of patients diagnosed with mtDNA depletion carrying p...