Aim: To measure maternal blood elements namely, antimony (Sb), aluminum (Al), arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cr), cobalt (Co), copper (Cu), manganese (Mn), mercury (Hg), molybdenum (Mo), nickel (Ni), lead (Pb), tin (Sn), and zinc (Zn) in pregnant women complicated by preterm prelabor rupture of the membranes (pP-ROM) to compare results with healthy controls.
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background and purpose: the heavy metal pollution and its fractionations in the surface sediments of darreh-morad beyg river, hamedan city were monitored for cd, cr, cu, fe, ni, pb, and zn in 2014.   materials and methods: totally 30 surface sediment samples were taken from 10 stations with three replicates. the samples subjected to bulk digestion and chemical partitioning. the concentrations o...

this research aims  to monitor the trace elements content (cr, cu, pb, cd, ag, al, mn, mg, zn and fe) in the tissues of the muscle and liver of silver carp (h. molitrix ) and stone moroko (p. parva) from zarivar wetland in western iran. this research was cross-sectional. the research specimen  was fish caught from zarivar wetland. metal concentration analysis was carried out utilizing an  icp. ...

This study was carried out to determine the level of same selected metals namely Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, K, Mg, Mn, Ni, Pb, Zn, As, Se, Al and V in some imported canned foods and chicken stock purchased from the local market in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The measurements were performed using inductively coupled plasma-optical emission Spectrometer (SPECTRO) analytical instruments. The result showed that the...

This study of soil conditions was carried out on 30 meadow soil (podzol) samples from the vicinity of the soda ash heap in Jaworzno, supplemented by analyses of 18 samples of waste deposited on the heap. In all samples, the total content of macroelements (Ca and Na) and heavy metals (Cd, Cr, Ni, Pb and Zn) as well as pH were analysed. The element concentrations were measured using inductively c...

The divalent cation chelator 1,2-bis(o-aminophenoxy)ethane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid (BAPTA), often used to buffer physiological changes in cytosolic Ca(2+), also binds Zn(2+) with high affinity. In a recently published method (Lamboley et al. 2015. J. Gen. Physiol. http://dx.doi.org/10.1085/jgp.201411250), the absorbance shift of BAPTA at 292 nm was successfully used to determine the total ca...