Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) involves the progressive degeneration of motor neurons in the spinal cord and the motor cortex. It has been shown that 15-20% of patients with familial ALS (FALS) have defects in the Sod1 gene, which encodes Cu,Zn-superoxide dismutase (SOD). To elucidate the pathological role of mutated Cu,Zn-SOD, we examined the issue of whether mutated Cu,Zn-SOD affects the...

The title complex, [Cu(4)(C(14)H(15)ClN(3)O(4))(2)(ClO(4))(2)(C(6)H(16)N(2))(2)], is a tetra-nuclear copper(II) complex lying about an inversion center wherein a cis-oxamide group is coordinated to both Cu atoms with bite angles of 84.45 (6) and 84.08 (10)°. Both Cu atoms adopt distorted square-pyramidal coordination geometries. The apical position of one Cu atom is occupied by an O atom from a...

The coupling between a Co layer with in-plane easy axis of magnetization and a Ni layer with out-of-plane easy axis across a nonmagnetic Cu spacer layer was studied by layer-resolved magnetic imaging. Photoelectron emission microscopy and magnetic circular dichroism in soft x-ray absorption as the magnetic contrast mechanism were used for the domain imaging. Crossed, wedge-shaped epitaxial Co a...

BACKGROUND Peer group deviance (PGD) is linked strongly to liability to drug use, including cannabis. Our aim was to model the genetic and environmental association, including direction of causation, between PGD and cannabis use (CU). METHOD Results were based on 1736 to 1765 adult males from the Mid-Atlantic Twin Registry with complete CU and PGD data measured retrospectively at three time-i...

The use of the word nutrition very frequently conjures up in the mind the idea of many foods composed of carbohydrate, fat or protein. Sometimes thought is given to minerals such as calcium, sodium and potassium but rarely is consideration given to copper, its normal metabolism, and abnormalities that result from alterations in dietary intake of copper. We all take in the diet and require some ...

This study was conducted to determine the solubility of copper (Cu) in two sources of copper(II) sulfate (CuSO4) including monohydrate and pentahydrate and three sources of dicopper chloride trihydroxide (dCCTH) including α-form (dCCTH-α), β-form (dCCTH-β), and a mixture of α- and β-form (dCCTH-αβ) at different pH and a 3-step in vitro digestion assay for pigs. In Exp. 1, Cu sources were incuba...

100-nm-thick Cu layers were grown on MgO(001) substrates by ultra-high vacuum magnetron sputter deposition at substrate temperatures Ts ranging from 40 to 300 °C. X-ray diffraction ω−2θ scans, ω-rocking curves, and pole figures show that layers grown at Ts=40 and 100 °C are complete single crystals with a cube-on-cube epitaxial relationship with the substrate: (001)Cu||(001)MgO with [100]Cu||[1...

The present study examined the effect of dissolved organic carbon (DOC), both added and inherent, on Cu toxicity in glochidia, the larvae of freshwater mussels. Using incremental additions of natural DOC concentrate and reconstituted water, a series of acute copper toxicity tests were conducted. An increase in DOC from 0.7 to 4.4 mg  C/L resulted in a fourfold increase (36-150 µg Cu/L) in the 2...

In the centrosymmetric binuclear title compound, [Cu(2)(C(7)H(5)O(2))(4)(C(7)H(9)N)(2)], the Cu(II) atom is coordinated by four O atoms from benzoate anions and one N atom from a dimethyl-pyridine ligand. A paddle-wheel-like dimer is formed by two Cu(II) ions and four benzoate anions with two 3,5-dimethyl-pyridine ligands at the axial position of the Cu(II) ions. The dihedral angle between the ...