The tumor suppressor PTEN is a putative negative regulator of the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/Akt pathway. Exposure to Zn2+ ions induces Akt activation, suggesting that PTEN may be modulated in this process. Therefore, the effects of Zn2+ on PTEN were studied in human airway epithelial cells and rat lungs. Treatment with Zn2+ resulted in a significant reduction in levels of PTEN protein in a ...

the deposits of clinoptilolite (cli) in iran after activation with sodium chloride or sodium hydroxide solution was subjected to ion exchange with some heavy and toxic cations. the results showed that the absorption for ca2+ (7.5 ppm), cu2+ (50 ppm), zn2+ (40 ppm), cd2+ (40 ppm), pb2+ (500 ppm) and al3+ (5 ppm) were 95.2, 96.70, 93.30,99.12, 99.2 and 90.0 percents, respectively. the noteworth o...

The modified surface of Typha latifolia L. root (MSTL), as an alternative economical adsorbent, wasused for the removal of Ni (II) and Cd(II) ions from aqueous solutions. The effect of initial pH, initialconcentration of metal ion, and contact time was investigated in a batch system at room temperature.The kinetics data could be fitted well by pseudo-second-order model with correlation coeffici...

Toxicity and accumulation of Cd2+ in yeasts were studied in eight different yeast species. The adaptation to toxic concentration of this metal was dependent on the production of extracellular yeast glycoproteins. The highest concentration of Cd2+ ions in the growth medium was tolerated by a Hansenula anomala, strain while the lowest tolerance was found by the strain of species Saccharomyces cer...

The purification of wastewater is preferred using the adsorption by column due to process’s high efficiency. Column investigations are performed remove hazardous pollutants and demonstrate efficiency in treatment process. Cadmium zinc exist radioactive industrial wastes. Therefore, this work interested cadmium removal from utilising a fixed-bed column. Zirconia–silicate composite (ZrO2–SiO2) wa...

nanoparticles of mn0.5zn0.5-xcdxfe2o4 with x varying from x = 0.0 to 0.3 were prepared by wet chemical co-precipitation method. the structural and magnetic properties were studied by using x-ray diffraction (xrd), scanning electron microscope (sem), transmission electron microscopy (tem) and electron paramagnetic resonance (epr) technique. the lattice constant increases with increase in cd cont...

Presence of heavy metal ions in wastewater is an important public concern. Adsorption are commonly used technique to remove various pollutants, including the ions, from contaminated water sources. However, common methods for adsorption are not completely efficient at low ion concentrations and the adsorbent should be improved in order to reaching the acceptable levels of adsorption efficiency. ...

this study deals with the uptake of cd2+ and  mn2+ ions from contaminated water using two iranian natural clinoptilolite-rich tuffs from meyaneh (z-m), and semnan (z-s) regions , and a synthetic zeolite-p from z-m sample (z-p) under static (batch operation) and dynamic (column operation) conditions. to investigate the selectivity of the zeolites toward cd2+ and mn2+ cations, the ion exchange is...