An experiment was carried out to evaluate and compare the effects of organic and inorganic selenium (Se) sources on broiler male birds (Ross 308). Uniform broiler male chicks divided in to five groups with six replicates were fed with either normal feed (without supplemental Se, negative control), 0.25 ppm of inorganic Se, 0.5 ppm of inorganic Se, 0.25 ppm of inorganic Se + 0.25 ppm of organic ...

In a previous paper (1) evidence was given to show that inorganic phosphate is esterified when succinate is incubated aerobically with cell-free extracts of Escherichia coli in the presence of inorganic phosphate. Based upon residual succinate determinations and upon the theoretical oxygen uptake for oxidation to fumarate, the data have been interpreted to mean that phosphorylation of inorganic...

Leaching properties of Pb, Cd, Zn, Cu at pH of 2-6 using different inorganic acids (hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, nitric acid) and organic acids (acetic acids, citric acid, malic acid, succinic acid) aiming at polluted sediment at downstream of a non-ferrous metal smelting enterprise is discussed. Results showed that leaching concentrations of 4 metals decreased with increasing pH. Among al...

An analysis of the dialyzable components of the pyruvic acid oxidation system of brain showed that in addition to cocarboxylase (thiamine pyrophosphate) (2), a C, dicarboxylic acid (2), and magnesium or manganese ions (3), both inorganic phosphate and “adenine nucleotide” (adenylic acid, adenosine triphosphate) (4) are required. The latter observation suggested that a cycle of phosphorylation i...

The determination method of total arsenic (As) and the speciation method of inorganic As for non-glutinous rice reported in our preceding paper were applied to several varieties of rice under optimized experimental conditions. In the determination of total As with ICP-MS, acetic acid was added to increase the sensitivity and an internal reference method with germanium was adopted to increase th...

The acid tolerance response enables Salmonella typhimurium to survive exposures to potentially lethal acidic environments. The acid stress imposed in a typical assay for acid tolerance (log-phase cells in minimal glucose medium) was shown to comprise both inorganic (i.e., low pH) and organic acid components. A gene previously determined to affect acid tolerance, atbR, was identified as pgi, the...

a new solution aiming at coal biodesulphurization has been developed based on the use of bacteria. the most frequently used species of bacteria for removal of inorganic sulphur compounds are thiobacillus ferrooxidans, thiobacillus thiooxidans and thiobacillus acidophilus. in this study the coal sample was decomposed initially and desulphurization experiments was carried out in pure and mixed cu...