Rock varnish is generally understood to be a 5-500 micrometer thick nanostratigraphic coating consisting of approximately 70% clay glued together by 30% iron and manganese oxides, which forms on the surfaces of rocks in most semi-arid to hyper-arid climates. Many investigators believe that manganese exists in rock varnish mainly as birnessite, and that varnish has at least a partial biological ...

in order to increase the productivity of human interleukin-2 (il-2) as a model protein in the recombinant e.colibl21 (de3), the effect of magnesium acetate and manganese acetate was studied based on full factorial design experiments magnesium acetate and manganese acetate and their interaction exhibited an increasing effect on il-2 expression level upto 25.24%, 16.80% and 23.30%, respectively, ...

There is little information regarding the tissue distribution of manganese in neonates following inhalation. This study determined tissue manganese concentrations in lactating CD rats and their offspring following manganese sulfate (MnSO4) aerosol inhalation. Except for the period of parturition, dams and their offspring were exposed to air or MnSO4 (0.05, 0.5, or 1 mg Mn/m3) for 6 h/day, 7 day...

OBJECTIVE We reviewed the scientific background for the current health-based World Health Organization (WHO) guideline value for manganese in drinking water. DATA SOURCES AND EXTRACTION The initial starting point was the background document for the development of the WHO's guideline value for manganese in drinking water as well as other regulations and recommendations on manganese intake leve...

Apoproteins of cytochrome c peroxidase, horseradish peroxidase, and sperm whale myoglobin were recombined with manganese complexes of proto-, hemato-, meso-, and deuteroporphyrins to form manganese porphyrin-protein complexes. These complexes were purified by column chromatography. All the manganese porphyrin-containing cytochrome c peroxidases were crystallized. Light absorption maxima of mang...

The practice of manganese ferroalloy smelting has traditionally been based on utilising oxide ores which typically contain a high level of manganese. This preference for oxides has even been extended to the modification of natural carbonates into nodulized oxides. However smelting practices developed over the past 30 years have created a market for natural manganese carbonate ores, driven in pa...

Manganese toxicity is a major problem for plant growth in acidic soils, but cellular mechanisms that facilitate growth in such conditions have not been clearly delineated. Established mechanisms that counter metal toxicity in plants involve chelation and cytoplasmic export of the metal across the plasma or vacuolar membranes out of the cell or sequestered into a large organelle, respectively. W...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Patients undergoing parenteral nutrition and those with portosystemic encephalopathy secondary to chronic liver disease and acquired and congenital portosystemic venous shunts frequently present manganese deposition in the basal ganglia, detected by MR imaging as hyperintense areas on T1-weighted sequences. We also observed similar abnormalities in the basal ganglia of pa...