Brazil Nuts and Thyroid Gland

radioiodine and thyroid gland

administration of a precise amount of activity in thyroid gland radioiodine (¹³¹i) therapy is of prime importance. several methods for this purpose have been suggested and used over many years. in this paper, a method for required ¹³¹i activity calculation for each case has been proposed. major factors affecting ¹³¹i calculation such as gland volume, integral dose, and prescription index have b...

Selenium and Aflatoxins in Brazil Nuts

Brazil nuts (Bertholletia excelsa H.B.K.) are considered a high nutritious food. Apart from carbohydrates, lipids, sulphur proteins and minerals, Brazil nuts are known to be rich in selenium Se (Barclay et al., 1995; Coutinho et al., 2002, Souza et al., 2004, Pacheco and Scussel, 2007). Despite of that, when their shell are cracked either when pods fall on the ground, or during pod opening for ...

Scaling behaviour in size segregation (”Brazil Nuts”)

2014 Using a previously introduced Monte Carlo method, due to Rosato, Prinz, Strandburg and Swendsen, we carry out in two dimensions numerical studies of size segregation, a phenomenon which occurs when a granular medium made of particles of different sizes is shaken. We propose a new scaling law relating the segregation velocity 03C5 to the amplitude of shaking A and to the ratio R of the diam...

Aspergillus bertholletius sp. nov. from Brazil Nuts

During a study on the mycobiota of brazil nuts (Bertholletia excelsa) in Brazil, a new Aspergillus species, A. bertholletius, was found, and is described here. A polyphasic approach was applied using morphological characters, extrolite data as well as partial β-tubulin, calmodulin and ITS sequences to characterize this taxon. A. bertholletius is represented by nineteen isolates from samples of ...

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