OBJECTIVES Zinc (Zn) has major effects on immune system activation while Cadmium (Cd) has anti-inflammatory and anti-proliferative effects in several chronic inflammatory contexts. The aim of this work was to investigate by which mechanisms Zn could compete with Cd and eventually counteract its deleterious effects. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) synoviocytes exposed to cytokines were used as a model...

Fractionation of stable carbon isotopes upon degradation of trichlorobenzenes was studied under aerobic and anaerobic conditions. Mineralization of 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene by the aerobic strain Pseudomonas sp. P51 which uses a dioxygenase for the initial enzymatic reaction was not accompanied by a significant isotope fractionation. In contrast, reductive dehalogenation by the anaerobic strain De...

The reconstruction of ancestral gene orders based on models of chromosomal rearrangement mechanisms is complicated when some of the input genomes have undergone whole genome duplications followed by fractionation, the massive loss of some or most of the duplicate genes. We describe a reconstruction protocol that uses maximum weight matching in two phases to overcome the fragmented nature of res...

Fractionation is important to understand someone’s health. How we can simulate blood fractionation through a simple, inexpensive ink spread experiment more about blood fractionation and liquid chromatography. Cotton will spread on ink the most because it has the most pores. Pilot ink spreads fast because it is water-based (low viscosity). Higher temperatures should result in more spread because...

No group of proteins has been as extensively investigated or as well characterized as bovine milk proteins. This can be attributed not only to the importance of milk as a food and as a raw material for a vast processing industry, but also to its convenience as an abundant source of relatively pure protein of varied structure and properties. In spite of the vast range of information available, h...

Sephacryl S-300 has been compared with Sephadex G-200 in the fractionation of sera for the detection of rubella-specific IgM. No difference in sensitivity was found with sera that had low titres of rubella-specific IgM. Sephadex G-200 was apparently more sensitive with some sera which had high titres of rubella-specific IgM due to the contribution of rubella-specific IgA. Sephacryl S-300 offers...

Positionally dependent fractionation factors for the photolysis of isotopomers of N20 in natural abundance have been determined by high resolution FTIR spectroscopy at three photolysis wavelengths. Fractionation factors show clear lSN position and photolysis wavelength dependence and are in qualitative agreement with theoretical models but are twice as large. The fractionation factors increase ...

Chapter 1: Overview of Zinc Nutrition ............................................................................................................... S99 1.1 Biological functions of zinc ............................................................................................................................. S99 1.2 Tissue zinc distribution and reserves .........................................