Salicylate, one of the most widely used drugs, is known to induce reversible tinnitus and hearing loss. Salicylate interferes with outer hair cells (OHCs), which are believed to underlie normal auditory frequency selectivity and sensitivity. In the present experiments, the effects of salicylate and lanthanides on OHC motility and nonlinear capacitance were investigated by using isolated guinea-...

In insulating lanthanides, unquenched orbital momentum and weak crystal-field (CF) splitting of the atomic $J$ multiplet at lanthanide ions result in a highly ranked (multipolar) exchange interaction between them complex low-temperature magnetic order not fully uncovered by experiment. Explicitly correlated {\it ab initio } methods proved to be efficient for an accurate description CF multiplet...

Exploring new fields: Lanthanide-using bacteria that turn over methane or methanol in their metabolism can replace essential lanthanides by certain actinides. In Research Article (e202303669), Lena J. Daumann et al. show an extremophile isolated from a volcanic mud-pot as well methylotrophic laboratory strain use americium and curium. vivo growth experiments vitro studies with the key metabolic...

A recent surprising discovery of the activity of rare earth metals (lanthanides) as enzyme cofactors as well as transcriptional regulators has overturned the traditional assumption of biological inertia of these metals. However, so far, examples of such activities have been limited to alcohol dehydrogenases. Here we describe the physiological effects of a mutation in xoxG, a gene encoding a nov...

Lanthanide(III) complexes with N-donor extractants, which exhibit the potential for the separation of minor actinides from lanthanides in the management of spent nuclear fuel, have been directly synthesized and characterized in both solution and solid states. Crystal structures of the Pr(3+), Eu(3+), Tb(3+), and Yb(3+) complexes of 2,9-bis(5,5,8,8-tetramethyl-5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-1,2,4-benzotriaz...