Objective(s) Arsenic compounds are potent human carcinogen and produce a variety of stress responses in mammalian cells. Recently sodium arsenite has been recommended to be used as anti malignancy drug by American food and drug administration (FDA). In this study, we aimed to determine the apoptosis inducing effect of sodium arsenite on rat bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells exposed in vitro. ...

Pendred syndrome is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by congenital deafness and thyroid goiter. The thyroid disease typically develops around puberty and is associated with a mild organification defect, characterized by an inappropriate discharge of iodide upon perchlorate stimulation (a positive perchlorate discharge test). The gene (PDS) mutated in Pendred syndrome is expressed i...

OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to quantify the extent of volatilization from 131I-NaI therapeutic capsules prepared in a centralized radiopharmacy and to quantify the amount of volatile 131I released from a dispensing vial containing a compounded 131I-NaI therapy capsule. METHODS Therapy capsules were prepared by injecting 131I oral solution into capsules containing anhydrous dibasic s...

The sodium iodide symporter (NIS), an integral basolateral cell membrane protein of thyroid follicular cells, is responsible for active accumulation of iodide within the thyroid gland, a critical step in the biosynthesis of thyroid hormones. After cloning of rat NIS cDNA and of its human counterpart (hNIS), molecular characterization of the human NIS gene has revealed that the hNIS coding regio...

We analyze the direct detection rate of minimal supersymmetric neutralino dark matter in germanium, sapphire and sodium iodide detectors, imposing cosmological and accelerator bounds including those from b → sγ decay. In contrast with several other recent analyses we find models with light charged higgsinos and large stop mixing in which the counting rate in solid state detectors exceeds 10 eve...

Chemicals: Thallium (I) nitrate (TlNO3, 99.9%), tetrabutylammonium iodide (TBAI, 99%), tetrabutylammonium bromide (TBABr, 98%), 1-octadecene (ODE, tech. 90%), oleylamine (OLA, tech. 70%), oleic acid (OA, tech. 90%), potassium bromide (KBr, 99%) and fluorescein sodium salt (98.5-100.5%) were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich. Hexane (98%), toluene (99.5%), 1-butanol (99.5%) and acetonitrile (99.8%) w...

Six easy laboratory procedures are presented for the oxidative iodination of various aromatics, mostly arenes, with either molecular iodine or potassium iodide (used as the sources of iodinating species, I+ or I3+), in the presence of sodium percarbonate(SPC), a stable, cheap, easy to handle, and eco-friendly commercial oxidant.

A novel triphenylphosphine-mediated direct trifluoromethylthiolation of indole derivatives using trifluoromethanesulfonyl chloride as the SCF3 source was developed. Sodium iodide facilitated this transformation by generating iodine in situ which was found to accelerate this transformation. The use of a transition metal-free protocol, readily available reagents, and mild reaction conditions allo...

We demonstrate the use of the miniaturised Medipix positron sensor for detection of the clinical PET radiotracer, [(68)Ga]gallium-citrate, on a silica-based monolith, towards microfluidic quality control. The system achieved a far superior signal-to-noise ratio compared to conventional sodium iodide-based radio-HPLC detection and allowed real-time visualisation of positrons in the monolith.

BACKGROUND Iodide transport defect (ITD) is a dyshormonogenetic congenital hypothyroidism caused by sodium/iodide symporter (NIS) gene mutations. In the lactating mammary gland, iodide is concentrated by NIS, and iodine for thyroid hormone synthesis is thereby supplied to the infant in the breast milk. CASE DESCRIPTION A 34-year-old Japanese woman was diagnosed with ITD caused by a homozygous...