Puberty is often delayed in children with chronic kidney disease. A 5-year-old boy suffering from severe chronic kidney disease due to a mutation in the TCF2 gene presented with a clinical precocious peripheral puberty 3 weeks after introducing cinacalcet and 2 months after introducing lanthanum carbonate. A retrospective measurement of serum sexual and adrenal hormones before the introduction ...

A novel multilayer material system consisting of lanthanum and molybdenum nano-layers for both broadband and highly reflecting multilayer mirrors in the energy range between 80 and 130 eV is presented. The simulation and design of these multilayers were based on an improved set of optical constants, which were recorded by extreme ultraviolet (XUV)/soft-x-ray absorption measurements on freestand...

Zonulae occludentes and gap junctions were examined both in the intact mouse liver and in a junction-rich membrane fraction from homogenized mouse liver. These preparations were visualized with the techniques of uranyl acetate staining en bloc, staining with colloidal lanthanum, negative staining with phosphotungstate, and freeze-cleaving. The zonula occludens is arranged as a meshwork of branc...

A series of Co doped lanthanum silicate apatite-type phases, La9.83Si4.5Co1.5O26, La9.66Si5CoO26, La10Si5CoO26.5 and La8BaCoSi6O26, have been synthesised, and neutron diffraction, EXAFS and XANES used to investigate their structures in detail. All compositions were shown to possess the hexagonal apatite structure, and the results confirmed that cobalt can be doped onto both the La and Si sites ...

Active and passive variants of La-containing tellurite glasses have been developed with matched refractive indices. The consequences of adding lanthanum to the glass was studied through measurements of the crystallization stability, glass viscosity and the loss of unstructured fibers. Doping the glass with erbium allowed for any spectroscopic changes to be observed through measurements of the a...

Interaction of lanthanum isopropoxide with molybdenum(VI) alkoxides in La/Mo ratios varying from 3:1 to 1:1 in acetophenon or allyl alcohol as solvents offers nanosized poorly crystalline products of complex composition, where the precipitation of Mo-rich ones is followed by the formation of La-rich ones with conservation of the reaction stoichiometry in total. Thermal treatment of the precipit...

The title compound, poly[di-aqua-tris-(μ4-but-2-enedioato)(μ2-but-2-enedioic acid)dilanthanum(III)], [La2(C4H2O4)3(C4H4O4)(H2O)2] n , was synthesized by the reaction of lanthanum chloride penta-hydrate with fumaric acid under hydro-thermal conditions. The asymmetric unit comprises an La(III) cation, one and a half fumarate dianions (L (2-)), one a half-mol-ecule of fumaric acid (H2 L) and one c...

The efficient infrared-to-visible upconversion emission present in Er-doped lanthanum oxysulfide crystal powders is used as a fine thermal sensor to determine the influence of upconversion processes on the laser-induced thermal load produced by the pump laser and to assess the potentialities of this material in order to obtain anti-Stokes laser-induced cooling. The analysis of the upconversion ...

The conductances, transference numbers, and activity coefficients of lanthanum chloride, samaric chloride, europic chloride, and ytterbic chloride were determined in order to test the present theories of electrolytic solutions as well as to make available accurate data on these useful properties for the above rare earth chlorides. Disciplines Chemistry This report is available at Iowa State Uni...

The novel phosphor of LaAlGe2O7 activated with the trivalent rare-earth Ln3+ (Ln = Eu, Sm, Dy) ions were synthesized by solid-state method, nd their characterization and luminescent properties were investigated. The absorption, emission and excitation spectra, and decay curves were mployed to study the luminescence properties. The calcined powders of the Eu3+, Sm3+ and Dy3+ ions doped in the La...