Stormwater pollution is a major cause of water quality impairment. Much the existing gray stormwater infrastructures provide little or no treatment, especially for dissolved pollutants. Due to capital cost installing new infrastructure, retrofitting promising alternative reduce pollution. In this study, aluminum-based drinking treatment residuals (WTR), byproduct from was combined with other co...

Background: Water plays an essential role in supporting life on earth and sea worldwide, requiringclean, safe, high quality and sustainable resources. Nowadays, many water resources have been contaminatedwith toxic compounds originating from petroleumdue to economical and industrial developments. There is anurgent need to clean up the waters with environmentally friendlyand inexpensive methods...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To test the hypothesis that gastric pH would be elevated above pH 3.0 for at least 2 hours after administration of chewable, dispersible, buffered didanosine tablets. Doses tested were 200 mg (two 100-mg tablets) and 400 mg (two 200-mg tablets). We also sought to compare these doses with regard to maximum gastric pH (pHmax), time to pHmax (TpH-max), time that gastric pH exceeds...

Increased platelet serotonin level (PSL) has been consistently found in a portion of autistic patients. Suggested mechanisms for hyperserotonemia in autism have been increased synthesis of serotonin (5HT) by tryptophan hydroxylase (TPH), increased uptake into platelets through 5HT transporter (5HTt), diminished release from platelets through 5HT2A receptor (5HT2Ar) and decreased metabolism by m...

We investigated the association between two markers in the seventh intron of the tryptophan hydroxylase gene (TPH C218A and C779A) in a population-based case control study of 780 genotyped subjects. As in prior studies, the two markers were in strong linkage disequilibrium. The phenotypes we studied were smoking initiation and progression to nicotine dependence. Allele, genotype, and estimated ...

Serotonin (5HT) is a pivotal signaling molecule that modulates behavioral and endocrine responses to diverse chemical and physical stimuli. We report cell-specific regulation of 5HT biosynthesis by transient receptor potential V (TRPV) ion channels in C. elegans. Mutations in the TRPV genes osm-9 or ocr-2 dramatically downregulate the expression of the gene encoding the 5HT synthesis enzyme try...

Parkinson disease (PD) is characterized by selective loss of the dopaminergic neurons. The symptoms of depression following PD are closely associated with reduced activity of the serotonergic system in the dorsal raphe. We explored the antidepressive effect of exercise and its possible mechanism using the rotenone-induced PD rats. PD rats were induced by subcutaneously injection with rotenone f...

A study on the bioremediation potentials of the earthworm Hyperiodrilus africanus (Beddard) in soil contaminated with crude oil was investigated. Dried and sieved soils were contaminated with 5 ml each of crude oil with replicates and inoculated with earthworms and monitored daily for 12 weeks. Physicochemical parameters such as pH, total organic carbon, sulfate, nitrate, phosphate, sodium, pot...