bioaccumulation of heavy metals in the skulls of black-striped field mice (apodemusagrarius) was compared for two localities in serbia differing in the level of pollution. eight heavy metals: fe, mn, co, cd, zn, ni, pb and cu, were quantitatively analyzed by atomic absorption spectrophotometry.four of them (mn, cd, fe and ni) showed significantly higher concentrations at the polluted location t...

bioaccumulation of heavy metals in the skulls of black-striped field mice (apodemusagrarius) was compared for two localities in serbia differing in the level of pollution. eight heavy metals: fe, mn, co, cd, zn, ni, pb and cu, were quantitatively analyzed by atomic absorption spectrophotometry.four of them (mn, cd, fe and ni) showed significantly higher concentrations at the polluted location t...

Several important longitudinal studies in the social sciences have omitted biomarkers that are routinely recorded today, including height and weight. To account for this shortcoming in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS), an 11-point scale was developed to code high school senior class yearbook photographs of WLS participants for relative body mass (RBM). Our analyses show that although impe...

Regulators of skeletal muscle mass are of interest, given the morbidity and mortality of muscle atrophy and myopathy. Four-and-a-half LIM protein 1 (FHL1) is mutated in several human myopathies, including reducing-body myopathy (RBM). The normal function of FHL1 in muscle and how it causes myopathy remains unknown. We find that FHL1 transgenic expression in mouse skeletal muscle promotes hypert...

in this paper, the radial breathing mode (rbm) frequencies of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (mwcnts) are  obtained based on the multiple-elastic thin shell model. for this purpose, mwcnt is considered as a multiple concentric elastic thin cylindrical shells, which are coupled through van der waals (vdw) forces between two adjacent tubes. lennard-jones potential is used to calculate the vdw forc...

FHL1 mutations cause several clinically heterogeneous myopathies, including reducing body myopathy (RBM), scapuloperoneal myopathy (SPM) and X-linked myopathy with postural muscle atrophy (XMPMA). The molecular mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of FHL1 myopathies are unknown. Protein aggregates, designated 'reducing bodies', that contain mutant FHL1 are detected in RBM muscle but not in se...

In this paper, the radial breathing mode (RBM) frequency of single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) is studied based on the thin shell theory. For this purpose, SWCNT is considered as an elastic thin cylindrical shell. The dynamic equation of RBM is derived using the Hamilton’s principle. An analytical solution of the RBM frequency of SWCNT is obtained. The advantage of this formulation is that i...

Three-dimensional organotypic culture using reconstituted basement membrane matrix Matrigel (rBM 3-D) is an indispensable tool to characterize morphogenesis of mammary epithelial cells and to elucidate the tumor-modulating actions of extracellular matrix (ECM). microRNAs (miRNAs) are a novel class of oncogenes and tumor suppressors. The majority of our current knowledge of miRNA expression and ...

We performed a study on the presence of chromosome aberrations in a cohort of plutonium workers of the Mayak production association (PA) with a mean age of 73.3 ± 7.2 years to see whether by multi-color fluorescence in situ hybridization (mFISH) translocation analysis can discriminate individuals who underwent occupational exposure with internal and/or external exposure to ionizing radiation 40...