The aims of the present study were to determine the best time for egg stripping after ovulation and to study oocyte over-ripening in the Caspian brown trout (Salmo trutta caspius). Eggs were retained in the female abdominal cavity for 40 days post ovulation (DPO). Partial volumes of eggs stripped from 10 individually identified females at 10 days intervals and fertilized with a pool of semen ...

Ongoing progress in nanotechnologies has led to their implementation for in vivo diagnostic and therapy. Thus, the main applications of inorganic nanoparticles are imaging for diagnosis and cell tracking, photothermal and drug-delivery therapies. Following nanoparticles in vivo administration, the systemic circulation can distribute them to every body organ and tissue. Precise characterization ...

An experimental study on 4-chlorophenol (4-CP) degradation in aqueous solutions by advanced oxidation process photo-Fenton type is presented. The efficiency of the oxidation process is determined by the very high oxidative potential of the OH. radicals generated by catalytic and photo-catalytic processes. The presence of the inorganic species inside the reaction medium influences the rate of th...

Glutamine 5-phosphoribosyl-1-pyrophosphate amidotransferase (EC 2.4.2.14), amidophosphoribosyltransferase, was partially purified from human placenta. Upon exposure to oxygen, both the glutamine and ammonia activities were lost in parallel. Inactivation by oxygen increased as the temperature of incubation rose and the partial pressure of oxygen increased. Molecular oxygen rather than a radical ...

Salt, iron, and magnesium were just too good a combination for an inorganic chemist to resist and, on returning to Cincinnati, I purchased several of these meals in order to explore the chemistry of their “inorganic ovens”. This chemistry turns out to involve a very clever use of elementary thermodynamics, kinetics, and inorganic electrochemistry. Since this chemistry is easily understood by th...

We surveyed the iron nutrition-responsive transcriptome of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii using RNA-Seq methodology. Presumed primary targets were identified in comparisons between visually asymptomatic iron-deficient versus iron-replete cells. This includes the known components of high-affinity iron uptake as well as candidates for distributive iron transport in C. reinhardtii. Comparison of growth...

An oriented attachment growth process was found for the morphology and shape control of various inorganic materials in solution-based systems. In this Article, a well-defined iron oxide polyhedron was prepared via a simple hydrothermal method. Detailed investigations revealed that the single-crystalline polyhedron evolved from polycrystalline aggregates. The shape and size control of the iron o...

Recently, iron nanoparticles are increasingly being tested as adsorbents for various types of organic and inorganic pollutants. In this study, nanoparticles of zero-valent iron (NZVI) synthesized under atmospheric conditions were employed for the removal of Ba(2+) ions in a concentration range 10(-3) to 10(-6) M. Throughout the study, (133)Ba was used as a tracer to study the effects of time, c...

chelating is the chemical process by which a mineral (iron, cobalt, copper, zinc, and manganese) is combined with a mixture of amino acids and peptides. the resulting substances are known as chelates. another descriptive term, proteinates, refers to the amino acid bond. these chelated minerals are thought to be more digestible than nonchelated forms. in other words, chelation makes the minerals...